Biography

Peter Nicks is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker known for his immersive camera work and observational style. His critically acclaimed feature The Waiting Room won an Independent Spirit Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2012. The Force, the second in a trilogy, won the 2017 Sundance Directing Prize. Homeroom, the final film in the trilogy, won the inaugural Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Sundance Institute.

Nicks co-founded Proximity Media with fellow Oakland-based filmmaker Ryan Coogler in 2021. He directed Proximity's inaugural films Anthem and Stephen Curry: Underrated. Nicks is the recipient of the San Francisco Film Society screenwriting grant as well as a United States Artists Fellow. He received his B.A. in English from Howard University and his masters in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- IMDb mini biography by: Peter Nicks