Biography

Nidhal Chatta is known for "No Man's Love", "The Last Mirage", "Zero " and "Mustafa Z" (full length features) as producer and director. He is a former Loughborough University of Technology graduate (United Kingdom). He attended John Strasberg's Acting Classes for Directors in Paris. Nidhal Chatta also acted as Executive Producer on BBC's British police drama « Between The Lines», BBC's TV film "All for the Love of You" and was the Line Producer on "Nine Miles Down" a US feature produced by Seven Arts Pictures. Nidhal is known as a teacher of cinematography and is running an Acting Master Class workshop in Carthage, Tunisia.





20/05/2019
- IMDb mini biography by: SB

Nidhal Chatta is a former Loughborough University of Technology graduate (United Kingdom). He studied ecology and marine biology and was involved with Captain Cousteau's camera team as a diver and a short films director. He trained as a diver within the BSAC (British Sub Acqua Club) and underwent advanced courses in scientific diving, wreck diving and underwater photography.

He attended John Strasberg's director course in Paris (Actor's Studio, the Real Stage) and directed 4 shorts of which « Lost Horizon » and « No Man's Love », his first full feature, in collaboration with Terry Forrestal , stunt coordinator and second unit director for Brazil, Indiana Jones, Braveheart and Titanic, in tandem with Mike Valentine, UK's premier underwater photographer

Nidhal acted as Production Manager and Line Producer on BBC's series « Between the Lines III », BBC's feature « All for the Love of You », UNEP's documentary project « Between Earth and Sea » and Anthony Waller's « Nine Miles Down » a US feature film produced by Seven Arts Pictures (London, Los Angeles). Nidhal Chatta also collaborated with Universal Music in Paris as a director. He also directed 125 commercial films dealing with advertising agencies such as Nelson McCann, J. Walter Thompson, DDB, BDDP and Ogilvy

He was appointed Technical Director and Project Coordinator by the United Nations Environmental Programme on the MedMPA project which was implemented in 7 Mediterranean countries (2004-2005) and financed by the European Union

Nidhal directed a TV docudrama series entitled « ADPD » on behalf of the Ministry of Interior of Abu Dhabi (2008-2009). He acted as Line Producer on « Nine Miles Down » (2008) a feature film produced by Seven Arts Pictures (London, Los Angeles)

He directed « Le Dernier Mirage (The Last Mirage) » (2009-2010), a feature film starring Jean-Marc Barr, Elisa TovatiI, Abdelmonem Chouayet and Hichem Rostom

He produced and directed « Zero ! » (2014) a feature documentary related to the Golden Age of Arab sciences, a program financed by the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of External Affairs Government of India and the OIF, French International Speaking Organization

He recently produced and directed « Mustafa Z » (2017) a full length feature (Best Actor Award, Carthage Film Festival 2017 / Best Film & Best Actor Awards, Ouejda Film Festival 2018/ Best Film Kilimandjaro Award, Toulouse 2018 / Best Actor Award & Special Jury Prize, Alexandria 2018/ Best African Actor and Golden Sotigi, Ouagadougou 2018/ Best Actor Award, Harlem 2018 / Best Political Film, Jaïpur 2019)

Nidhal also launched Cinematography Master Class (2018), a specialized course teaching how to create characters for screen and television but also providing a tool kit to perform as a director at each stage of filmmaking process
- IMDb mini biography by: BirBou