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Nicholas Ma

Nicholas Ma is an award-winning writer, director and producer based in New York City. He produced WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, a documentary on Fred Rogers, which became the all-time highest grossing bio-documentary. Ma directed SUITE NO. 1 PRELUDE, which screened at the New York Film Festival. His feature script, MABEL, was awarded the Sloan Prize and invited to the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab. He is in development on several other documentary projects with Tremolo and Motto Pictures. He received his M.F.A. from Tisch grad Film. Prior to his career in film, Ma led global economic policy for then-Senator John Kerry on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, after working at McKinsey & Company in New York and Shanghai. He is a graduate of Harvard College.

SLOAN-AWARDED FILMS

2020