Nicholas Hulbert - Director
Nicholas's first experience as a Director was Directing amateur theatre at school and university – most prominently, the Cambridge University European Theatre Group’s five-week touring 2014-2015 production of ‘Macbeth’, which visited theatres in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and the UK.
Nicholas spent the following year working on showreel material for applications for master’s programs at film schools in the USA. Nicholas was awarded places at the prestigious University of Southern California (alma mater of Kevin Feige and George Lucas) and a scholarship to attend the California Institute of the Arts (of John Lasseter and Pixar fame), however, due to a pre-existing health condition, made the decision to stay in the UK at this stage of his career. Instead, Nicholas spun out the organisation he had made to produce showreel material, into ‘Raunkiaer Films’, a small short film producing organisation.Since this move the company has produced two short films,’ The Spy by the Sea’ and ‘A Night in the Winter of the Revolution’, which have both had successful short film festival runs.
Nicholas has gone on to discover that the area of filmmaking he is most passionate about is directing and he is currently developing a Viking-era set short film with fellow National Youth Film Academy members.