Director's Works
Scandinavian Airlines, Breaking Glass Nicolas Bori
Nicolas’ journey from Buenos Aires to Berlin is a story of reinvention. After earning a business degree in the Netherlands and leaving a promising career at Google, he followed his passion for storytelling with nothing but a camera and a tent. His bold adventures, including crossing Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, produced a short film that launched his career as a travel filmmaker. With work spanning 80 countries and a feature in National Geographic, he took the leap to study commercial directing at the prestigious Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, where he won multiple awards before graduating. Now an accomplished director, Nicolas crafts films that blend emotional resonance with technical innovation. He thrives on practical challenges, pushing the boundaries of CGI and VFX to elevate his stories. With a soft spot for projects that carry social impact, he brings creativity and heart to every frame, creating work that lingers long after the credits roll. Crossed Africa on a truck from Capetown to Cairo and made a short film about it that landed him a job as a travel content filmmaker for a British adventure tourism company. 5 years, 80 countries and 1 film featured in National Geographic later, he decided to take the next step. He learnt German and applied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg as a commercial director. He won a bunch of nice awards before even graduating, and has been working across Europe directing films since then. He is currently based in Berlin. Nicolas loves storytelling, sometimes to make you laugh, sometimes to make you connect emotionally with its characters. In any case he loves practical challenges on his films and using CGI and VFX to enhance a story. He has a soft spot for projects with relevant social messages and loves thinking creatively to make big things on tight budgets.
Although the scope of the project and its production value seem high, this project was pulled off with no more than 45K. What we lacked in money with compensated with time, patience, begging and finding out of the box ideas on how to pull off this production on a shoestring budget. Support from different female led aviation organizations worldwide gave us the first push, and the local aviation community in Germany and Sweden helped us later, donating their time, expertise and vintage planes to tell this story. Same goes for the CGI sequences, and all the crew involved, an army of volunteers that believed in telling this story without making compromises. We had the honor to meeting the real female pioneers that broke his glass ceiling in the 60's and 70's, and out of our conversations this script was born. There is plenty of interesting stories to tell about this project, but that probably needs more time.
