Nicola Marsh
Nicola Marsh
Director
Nicola Marsh is a brilliant doc director currently working on her second feature. On the pod Nicola talks about making the jump from DP to director, her origins in local news, her latest projects, LUTs, lenses and lots and lots more! Nicola has a wide portfolio of work, having worked on scripted television, documentary, commercials and narrative features, as both a DP and a director. She is best known for her work on the Oscar-winning documentary “Twenty Feet from Stardom”. Currently she is working on a feature documentary for Hulu with Demi Lovato: Childstar. Concurrently she’s also directing one episode of the the Apple series Omnivore with chef René Redzepi. She has directed multiple projects for executive producer Morgan Neville - the true crime series The 12th Victim(Showtime) and Song Exploder (Netflix). Prior to that she helmed the ambitious documentary Stay on Board (Netflix) which chronicles trans skateboarder Leo Baker’s run for the Olympics. As a DP she has has an extensive career in documentaries, hopscotching through multiple genres: the very recent Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming (Disney), Night Stalker (Netflix), Shangri-la (Showtime), The Trails of Gabriel Fernandez (Netflix), Chelsea Does (Netflix), The Innocent Man (Netflix). Prior to that she shot the Johnny Cash documentary The Gift (director Thom Zimny) and Hello Privilege its me Chelsea (director, Alex Stapleton). She has also shot two other documentaries for Mr. Crowe: Pearl Jam 20 which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and The Union which opened the Tribeca Film Festival. Nicola grew up in London, England. She first moved to the US to work as a news camerawoman for NBC. She holds an MFA in cinematography from The University of Southern California. She now lives in Los Angeles. In addition to her American passport, she holds a German passport, but has a good sense of humor.
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