# Nickolas Perry

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'''Nickolas Perry''' (born December 3, 1967) is an American film director, writer, editor, photographer, and film instructor who began his career working as a [camera assistant](/source/camera_assistant) and [assistant director](/source/focus_puller) on independent films in San Francisco before becoming [Francis Ford Coppola](/source/Francis_Ford_Coppola)'s editing assistant on ''[Bram Stoker's Dracula](/source/Bram_Stoker's_Dracula_(1992_film))''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehuntingofthepresident.com/presidentTEAM.html|title=TheHuntingOfThePresident.com|website=www.thehuntingofthepresident.com|access-date=December 30, 2009|archive-date=November 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103010630/http://www.thehuntingofthepresident.com/presidentTEAM.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1995, Perry wrote and directed ''Must Be the Music'', a short film starring [Milo Ventimiglia](/source/Milo_Ventimiglia) and [Michael Saucedo](/source/Michael_Saucedo) as gay teens on a Friday night out in Los Angeles. The film premiered at the 1996 [Sundance Film Festival](/source/Sundance_Film_Festival) and was later distributed as part of [Strand Releasing](/source/Strand_Releasing)'s ''[Boys Life 2](/source/Boys_Life_2)''.  The film got the attention of director [Gus Van Sant](/source/Gus_Van_Sant), who would executively produce Perry's first feature film, ''[Speedway Junky](/source/Speedway_Junky)''.

Perry wrote and directed ''[Speedway Junky](/source/Speedway_Junky)'' in 1999. The film premiered at the [Berlin International Film Festival](/source/Berlin_International_Film_Festival) and starred [Daryl Hannah](/source/Daryl_Hannah), [Jesse Bradford](/source/Jesse_Bradford), and [Jonathan Taylor Thomas](/source/Jonathan_Taylor_Thomas).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-aug-31-ca-40369-story.html|title=Life in the Fast Lane in 'Speedway Junky'|first=KEVIN|last=THOMAS|date=August 31, 2001|publisher=|via=LA Times}}</ref>  In 2004, Perry co-wrote, co-directed, and edited [The Hunting of the President](/source/The_Hunting_of_the_President), an American documentary film based on the New York Times best-selling novel, The Hunting of the President: The Ten Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, written by investigative journalists [Joe Conason](/source/Joe_Conason) and [Gene Lyons](/source/Gene_Lyons), and published by [Thomas Dunne Books](/source/Thomas_Dunne_Books) in 2000. Narrated by [Morgan Freeman](/source/Morgan_Freeman), the film premiered at the 2004 [Sundance Film Festival](/source/Sundance_Film_Festival) and was distributed theatrically by [20th Century Fox](/source/20th_Century_Fox).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/the-hunting-of-the-president-1200536605/|title=Review: 'The Hunting of the President'|first=Dennis|last=Harvey|date=February 6, 2004|website=variety.com}}</ref> With [Harry Thomason](/source/Harry_Thomason), Perry was nominated for the [Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay](/source/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Documentary_Screenplay) for the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/awards/wga-serves-up-1st-doc-kudo-to-super-1117918019/|title=WGA serves up 1st doc kudo to 'Super'|last=McNary|first=Dave|date=February 15, 2005|website=Variety|accessdate=February 18, 2019}}</ref>

Perry is a member of the [Directors Guild of America](/source/Directors_Guild_of_America) and a member of the Non-Fiction Writers Caucus at the [Writers Guild of America](/source/Writers_Guild_of_America).<ref>http://wgareg.com/awards/2005/01/27/doc_awards.html {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}</ref>  He works as a [script doctor](/source/script_doctor) and as a consultant on low-budget features and [documentaries](/source/documentaries), advising first-time directors on [independent film](/source/independent_film) completion, distribution, and marketing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmstudies.cz/film-school/faculty/|title=Film School: Faculty|website=www.filmstudies.cz|date=December 15, 2020 }}</ref>

==Select filmography==
* ''Metaphysia 2012'' (2010) (editor)
* ''[The Hunting of the President](/source/The_Hunting_of_the_President)'' (2004) (co-writer, co-director, editor)
* ''[Speedway Junky](/source/Speedway_Junky)'' (1999) (writer, director)
* ''The Creed'' (1998) (director)
* ''[Boys Life 2](/source/Boys_Life_2)'' (1997) (writer, director, segment "Must Be the Music")
* ''Must Be the Music'' (1996) (writer, director)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0675235|name=Nickolas Perry}}

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