Nick Taussig
- Producer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nick Taussig is the author of four novels: Love and Mayhem, Don Don, Gorilla Guerrilla and The Distinguished Assassin. He has also written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and The Huffington Post.
Marcel Berlins, writing in The Times, called The Distinguished Assassin "gripping, passionate, political and emotional." Love and Mayhem was described by Alain de Botton as "full of insight and genuine innovation in form and content... capturing brilliantly all the nuances of passion." Matt Munday of The Sunday Times referred to Don Don as "a great book." While Gorilla Guerrilla, according to Natasha Harding of The Sun, is a "thought-provoking tale...beautifully told."
He is also a film and documentary producer. His credits include producer of the BAFTA-winning Killing Escobar (dir. David Whitney), Stardust (dir. Gabriel Range), Audrey (dir. Helena Coan), the double BAFTA-nominated McQueen (dir. Ian Bonhote & Peter Ettedgui), Churchill (dir. Jonathan Teplitzky) and Lek and the Dogs (dir. Andrew Kotting). His recent productions are Sheffield DocFest-winning, BIFA-longlisted and BPG-nominated Strike: An Uncivil War (dir. Daniel Gordon), Garbo: Where Did You Go? (dir. Lorna Tucker), Dwarf Story (dir. Riccardo Servini), the BAFTA-nominated Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me (dir. Clare Sturges) and Call Me Kate (dir. Lorna Tucker). He is currently producing Epic: The Life and Times of David Lean (dir. Barnaby Thompson) and Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-Movie Star (dir. Rubika Shah).
Nick directed, with Riccardo Servini, A Space in Time, a feature documentary response to the diagnosis of his two sons, Theodor and Oskar, with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle wasting disease. Supported by the BFI, it was released theatrically and Grierson nominated for Best Single Documentary. He is in production on Violent Men, which he is also directing, a study of male violence.
Before his career in book and film, Nick studied literature and philosophy at Durham University, where he obtained a First, then went on to acquire a Master's in Russian literature from the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is co-founder of Mtaala Foundation, an education partnership and sponsorship programme to create and support a school for vulnerable children and at-risk youth in Uganda; and a trustee of Harrison's Fund, the first Duchenne muscular dystrophy mental health charity, supporting those living with the disease. Nick is also an ambassador for Just Stop Oil.
Marcel Berlins, writing in The Times, called The Distinguished Assassin "gripping, passionate, political and emotional." Love and Mayhem was described by Alain de Botton as "full of insight and genuine innovation in form and content... capturing brilliantly all the nuances of passion." Matt Munday of The Sunday Times referred to Don Don as "a great book." While Gorilla Guerrilla, according to Natasha Harding of The Sun, is a "thought-provoking tale...beautifully told."
He is also a film and documentary producer. His credits include producer of the BAFTA-winning Killing Escobar (dir. David Whitney), Stardust (dir. Gabriel Range), Audrey (dir. Helena Coan), the double BAFTA-nominated McQueen (dir. Ian Bonhote & Peter Ettedgui), Churchill (dir. Jonathan Teplitzky) and Lek and the Dogs (dir. Andrew Kotting). His recent productions are Sheffield DocFest-winning, BIFA-longlisted and BPG-nominated Strike: An Uncivil War (dir. Daniel Gordon), Garbo: Where Did You Go? (dir. Lorna Tucker), Dwarf Story (dir. Riccardo Servini), the BAFTA-nominated Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me (dir. Clare Sturges) and Call Me Kate (dir. Lorna Tucker). He is currently producing Epic: The Life and Times of David Lean (dir. Barnaby Thompson) and Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-Movie Star (dir. Rubika Shah).
Nick directed, with Riccardo Servini, A Space in Time, a feature documentary response to the diagnosis of his two sons, Theodor and Oskar, with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle wasting disease. Supported by the BFI, it was released theatrically and Grierson nominated for Best Single Documentary. He is in production on Violent Men, which he is also directing, a study of male violence.
Before his career in book and film, Nick studied literature and philosophy at Durham University, where he obtained a First, then went on to acquire a Master's in Russian literature from the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is co-founder of Mtaala Foundation, an education partnership and sponsorship programme to create and support a school for vulnerable children and at-risk youth in Uganda; and a trustee of Harrison's Fund, the first Duchenne muscular dystrophy mental health charity, supporting those living with the disease. Nick is also an ambassador for Just Stop Oil.
