Nick Aquilino(I)
- Editor
- Producer
- Editorial Department
Nick has independently produced and directed two documentaries,
"Takashi's Dream," and "The Brokaw Hoax," and was co-Producer and
Editor on two other documentaries: "Steel Drums, Not Guns," and "On
Borrowed Time." This past year, Nick was both Producer and Editor of a
documentary entitled "Genghis Heroes," about the children of Mongolia.
Nick began working in film as Assistant to the Producer on the PBS Documentary, "America's Political Parties" followed by two years as an Assistant to the Producer for Alexandra Rose, the Oscar-nominated Producer of "Norma Rae," on the feature "Quigley Down Under." He was later a Story Analyst for Oscar winner Arnold Kopelson ("Platoon").
He attended the American Film Institute in the Graduate Producing Program, and was hired as a Researcher/Editing Assistant on the major 7-part PBS documentary series "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?"
He produced the independent film "Nutcracker: An American Nightmare," starring legendary actor David Hess ("Last House on the Left") made for a shoestring budget and sold worldwide. In 2008, Nick was hired to teach Editing, Film History, and Guerrilla Filmmaking at the International Academy of Film and Television.
Since then, he edited a series called "Hooked on the Fly" for The Sportsman Channel; a web series entitled "Wealth Cycles" for Investment Advisers; was a contributing editor on "Carlos Santana: Coming Home;" edited segments for BAMmagazine.com, including the last promo and interview with Ray Manzarek before his death; edited an EPK for "The Hot Flashes" starring Brooke Shields and Wanda Sykes; the pilot episode of "The Grid Code", and "Harlem to Hollywood: The Billy Vera Story."
Nick began working in film as Assistant to the Producer on the PBS Documentary, "America's Political Parties" followed by two years as an Assistant to the Producer for Alexandra Rose, the Oscar-nominated Producer of "Norma Rae," on the feature "Quigley Down Under." He was later a Story Analyst for Oscar winner Arnold Kopelson ("Platoon").
He attended the American Film Institute in the Graduate Producing Program, and was hired as a Researcher/Editing Assistant on the major 7-part PBS documentary series "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?"
He produced the independent film "Nutcracker: An American Nightmare," starring legendary actor David Hess ("Last House on the Left") made for a shoestring budget and sold worldwide. In 2008, Nick was hired to teach Editing, Film History, and Guerrilla Filmmaking at the International Academy of Film and Television.
Since then, he edited a series called "Hooked on the Fly" for The Sportsman Channel; a web series entitled "Wealth Cycles" for Investment Advisers; was a contributing editor on "Carlos Santana: Coming Home;" edited segments for BAMmagazine.com, including the last promo and interview with Ray Manzarek before his death; edited an EPK for "The Hot Flashes" starring Brooke Shields and Wanda Sykes; the pilot episode of "The Grid Code", and "Harlem to Hollywood: The Billy Vera Story."
