Nich Perez

Education

• MFA Cinematic Arts: Film and Television Production, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
• MA Communication Studies, St. Mary’s University, Texas
• Photography and Human Rights Certificate, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
• BA Philosophy, University of St. La Salle, Philippines
• BS Business Management, University of St. La Salle, Philippines

Research

• Documentary Narrative and Production
• Video and Film Production
• Media, Social Justice, and Service-Learning
• Contemporary International Cinema
• Screenwriting and Documentary Preproduction
• Effective Media Production: Digital Still Photography and Editing
• Cinematography, and Film Editing
• Community Storytelling
• Film Festivals
• The Ontology of Film Grain and Pixels

Teaching

• Film 233 Introduction to Film
• Video Production
• Documentary Narrative and Production

Recent Projects

• "letters to eleanore” feature-length documentary (currently in the film festival circuit)
  • 2024 Documentary Award Winner, A&E Film Festival, Bristol, England
  • 2024 Official Selection, Freedom Festival International, South Carolina, USA
    
    
• "The White Feast (Screenplay)"
  • 2023 Official Selection, Beverly Hills Film Festival, USA
  • 2021 Official Selection, University Film and Video Association, USA
    
    
• "LETTERS: the art of grieving” - Distributed by EPF Media|Streaming on GuideDoc 2021
  Official Selection, StoryBolt’s 4th Short Documentary Contest, USA
  • 2021 Award Winner, Go Mental! International Short Film Festival 2021, Germany
  • 2021 Award Winner, Giuria del Festival ART CONTAINER, Italy
  • 2021 Official Selection, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Scotland.
  • 2020 Official Selection, 74th University Film and Video Association Conference, USA
  • 2020 Great Lakes Film Festival, USA
  • 2020 Finalist Mountain Shadow Film Society’s 6th Annual Short Film Competition
  • 2020 Jury Prize Nominee, First Look Film Festival, USA
  • 2019 Official Selection, Filmstrip International Film Festival, Romania
  • 2019 Finalist, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA
    
    
• "Kahidlaw” (Longing) (currently in the film festival circuit)
  • 2022 Official Selection, PDX Recovery Film Festival, USA
  • 2022 Official Selection, Monaco Film Festival
  • 2022 Official Selection, Hyperreal Film Club, USA
    
    
• "Dear Nay”
  • 2022 Art With Impact Short Film Competition Winner
  • 2020 Official Selection, One Step Film Festival, Yangon
  • 2020 Official Selection, Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema, USA
    
    
• "LETTERS: transformations”
  • 2023 Official Selection, Nosebleeds Film Festival, USA
  • 2021 Winner, Art With Impact Film Competition - Olive Film Collection
    
    
• "A Philosophical Approach to Enlightenment”
  • 2020 Official Selection, Lift-Off Global Network Film Festival, UK
  • 2020 Award Winner, Tagore International Film Festival, India
  • 2020 Flickfair Film Festival, USA
    
    
• "In Plato’s Digital Cave”
  • 2020 Official Selection, LAMPA International Film Festival of Socially Oriented Short Films, Videos and Social Advertising
    
    
• "Fragments"
  • 2020 Official Selection, Lift-Off Global Network Film Festival, UK
  • 2020 Official Selection, 9th Video Poetry Festival, Greece
    
    
• “Adulting”
  • 2017 Nominated Best Documentary, First Look Industry Award , USA
    
    
• "Pōuri"
  • 2017 Official Selection, One Nation Film Festival, USA
    
    
• "Flowers"
  • 2016 Official Selection, River Bend Film Festival , USA
    
    
• "Reinterpreting Neruda: If You Forget Me"
  • 2020 Official Selection, 9th Video Poetry Festival, Greece
  • 2015 Official Selection, North by Midwest Film Festival , USA
    
    
• "BRO: Men with Hope to Bring,” Feature-Length Documentary
  • 2015 Official Selection, Great Lakes Film Festival
  • 2015 Official Selection, Catholic Film Festival, South Korea
    
    
• "M35 Bus"
  • 2014 Official Selection, (In)Justice for All Film Festival