Nick Tyson | Filmmaker, Editor, Producer
Nick Tyson is a producer, filmmaker, and editor based between Paris and New York City. His filmmaking practice explores queer embodiment and sensorial experience across physical and digital landscapes, engaging with forms of experimental cinema, observational documentary, and sensory ethnography.
His work has screened at festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, IndieLisboa, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, BFI Flare, and É Tudo Verdade, as well as at Anthology Film Archives (NY) and La Clef Cinéma (Paris).
He has a masters in documentary cinema and visual anthropology from the Université Paris-Nanterre and a bachelors from Columbia University where he studied film and anthropology. He received training in film production from Prague Film School and Yale University, and was part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio artist residency from 2019 through 2020.
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TRACING UTOPIA2021
Directed by
Nick Tyson and Catarina de Sousa
Primary Collaborator H.Mur.
Starring Ash, Chase, Jay, Mars and Raphael
26 min. 11 sec
Trailer:
A journey to the Queer dimension. Across space. Across time. Queer teens dream the future. A war machine is constructed. Love will win. They will change the world.
Produced as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio 2019-2020.
Premiered at the 2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of the Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition.
Best Documentary Short award at the KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
Special Mention for the Casa Comum Award at Queer Porto
[2021] IFFR | International Film Festival Rotterdam [The Netherlands]
[2021] BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival [UK]
[2021] É Tudo Verdade [Brazil]
[2021] International Short Film Festival Oberhausen [Germany]
[2021] Vienna Shorts - Vienna Independent Short Film Festival [Austria]
[2021] Hamburg Short Film Festival [Germany]
[2021] Mo&Friese Children’s Short Film Festival Hamburg [Germany]
[2021] Istanbul Pride Week - Pera Museum [Turkey]
[2021] Kyiv International Short Film Festival [Ukraine]
[2021] DevolvidDe [Mexico]
[2021] XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin [Germany]
[2021] MIEFF - Moscow International Experimental Film Festival [Russia]
[2021] Kashish Mumbai International Short Film Festival (Best International Narrative Short Award) [India]
[2021] IndieLisboa International Film Festival [Portugal]
[2021] Queer Porto (Special Mention from the Casa Comum Award) [Portugal]
[2021] Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival [Switzerland]
[2021] Uppsala Short Film Festival [Sweden]
[2021] Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival - FestCurtasBH [Brazil]
[2021] FRONTDOC [Italy]
[2021] Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest [UK]
[2021] Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade [Brazil]
[2021] Kasseler Documentary Film and Video Festival [Germany]
[2021] KFFK / Kurzfilmfestival Köln [Germany]
[2021] Dialogues Film Festival [India]
[2021] Pravo Ljudski Film Festival [Bosnia & Herzegovina]
[2022] Fotomuseum Antwerpen: FOMU [Bélgica]
[2022] Massimadi : Afro LGBTQ+ Film & Arts Festival [Canada]
[2022] jfc Medienzentrum [Germany]
[2022] Glasgow Short Film Festival [United Kingdom]
[2022] Festival Política [Portugal]
[2022] Taiwan International Documentary Festival [Taiwan]
[2022] FILMMAKING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE [Spain]
[2022] La Fête du Slip [Switzerland]
[2022] Short Waves [Poland]
[2022] Anthology Film Archives [USA]
[2022] Kinemastik International Short Film Festival [Malta]
[2022] Porto Femme (Menção Honrosa da Competição XX Element) [Portugal]
[2022] Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy [Finland]
[2022] International Film Festival BRNO16 [Czech Republic]
[2022] Month of European Film [Montenegro]
[2023] Arts Santa Mónica [Espanha]
[2023] Transitions Video [Países Baixos]
[2023] International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Theme Programme) [Germany]
[2023] CINE GALA [Portugal]
[2023] Sunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ Film Festival [Ukraine]