Director's Works
What would you do? Nick Alexander
Nick is a director who in 2018 started in the industry working on HETV on various SKY and the BBC shows, before making the transition into directing in late 2019. His debut short film ‘Queens' was selected at several BAFTA qualifying film festivals including Raindance, LSFF, Edmonton and Leeds International Film Festival, but it really found it’s home at the Iris Prize, where it came runner up for Best British Film and secured a years residency on All4. Since then he has been sponsored by Left Bank Pictures to attend the National Film and Television School - his graduation film 'Bandits' winning gold at the 2023 Young Directors Award. He’s also been selected as part of BBC's Casualty Director’s scheme - where in 2025 he’ll shadow a director on the show for 3 months. In 2023, he started ‘Loudmouth Creative’ with fellow director Simon London whom he met at NFTS. Simon came with a wide range of industry experience, having worked for over 20 years in New Zealand, Australia and the UK as an actor, writer, photographer and theatre maker. He began making films in 2019, with his first short The Calf (2021), developed and funded by The New Zealand Film Commission, which screening at festivals worldwide. His second film That Workman’s Arm (2022), also supported by NZFC, premiered in competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and he continued his festival success with his NFTS graduation film This Is Ours (2023) which won The Golden Egg at Reykjavik International Film Festival. Together, they continue to build Loudmouth, aiming to step into the commercial world as a pair this year.
For all the cast and crew, this project felt special - not just because it was for a charity - Why Me? - and everyone volunteered their time; or because ambassadors of the charity generously offered their lived experience to help inform the script (with one even joining the cast). But because, in making the film, we were given the opportunity to learn about the life changing impact of Restorative Justice. RJ is a process where victims of crime get to sit down with their perpetrators, to finally get off their chest what they may have needed to say for a very long time. The generosity and openness required from both parties often results in incredible levels of empathy, understanding and healing. This was an initiative we were all keen to promote. It's not often you get the opportunity to make a film that could have an important social impact. Here, we were offered exactly that, and for many of us it was the most fulfilling project we'd made in a while.