Peter Nicks is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker now working as an independent producer/director in the San Francisco Bay Area having produced a diverse array of films for network, cable and public television. Most recently Peter garnered an Emmy Award for his documentary Blame Somebody Else for the PBS series Exposé. That film examined the pipeline of illegal labor supporting the war effort in Iraq. Prior to that project Peter was commissioned by HBO to develop a new cross-platform Internet media project that connects professional and amateur filmmakers and storytellers. He has also worked for ABC’s World News Tonight where he was hired to bring innovative short-documentary storytelling techniques to the evening news broadcast. His work there garnered numerous awards and honors. Peter began his career as an associate producer on the Emmy-winning documentary series Drug Wars for PBS Frontline. Following his work with Frontline he directed his first film, The Wolf, a chronicle of his own addiction and incarceration on drug trafficking charges. The Wolf was produced at the Center for New Documentary, with funding from the Ford Fousndation and Macarthur Foundations and aired nationally on ABC Nightline. Nicks also produced the award winning film Faith Under Fire: Islam in America for MSNBC and worked for two years as a producer for the innovative PBS documentary series Life 360.
Peter Nicks is currently developing several projects including a film following the efforts of a county hospital in Oakland, CA to provide high quality health to care to a community of largely uninsured patients. Peter Nicks graduated from Howard University in 1996 and went on to earn a Masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999.
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