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Nicholas is a documentary filmmaker living and working on unceded Indigenous lands known as Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). His documentary work aims to inspire systemic and societal change by revealing lessons for humanity in shared human experiences. He has a strong interest in land-based knowledge sharing, cross-cultural collaboration, and youth perspectives. He currently runs a production company called Coexistence Films. His latest feature Coextinction (21), is an “eye-opening analysis of interdependence, conservation and social justice” which documents the crisis facing the Pacific Northwest ecosystem. Award-winning at Jackson Wild and nominated for a Canadian Screen Award, it documents ongoing colonial policies causing the critical decline of orca and salmon in the Pacific Northwest while showcasing the uprising of Indigenous Nations asserting rightful stewardship of their ancestral lands and waters. In The Footsteps Of Our Ancestors (19), his directorial debut, was a wilderness epic that documented a cross-cultural exploration of Shúhtagot’ı̨nę and American Army WW2 trails in the Mackenzie Mountains - a film described as “powerful” by Canada’s National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He is currently working on a short showcasing systemic racism in Canadian colonial court systems, and the lived realities of land defenders. Nicholas is a strong asset in the field, and is fully equipped for all-weather, multi-day backpacking expeditions. He is trained in wilderness medicine, scuba and is a certified drone pilot. Nicholas has also spoken as a Video Presenter for Sony, and curates workshops on filmmaking for students of all levels. He believes in the power of story to create empathy and build confidence. In 2022 he facilitated storytelling training with a group of Indigenous youth from the Hudson Bay region during a National Geographic Pristine Seas Expedition. In 2021, his research dissemination video work on Safe Motherhood in Ethiopia was published in the African Journal of Reproductive Health. Filmmaking challenges Nicholas’s curious and investigative mind; providing a chance to ask deeper questions of ourselves, redefine our visions, and be bold about what we can achieve. He believes that the answers to some of our toughest questions, may be simpler than we think. When he’s not working, he is a student of piano, l'art du deplacement, and nordic skiing. He is excited about what is to come.