NICK RAY MCCANN is an award-winning director and photographer based in Los Angeles. His short films and music videos have screened at the Northside Film Festival, the LA Short Film Festival, the Coney Island Film Festival, the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Indie Memphis Film Festival, the Berlin Music Video Awards, the Hudson Valley Film Festival, and more. In 2017 Nick directed season two of the comedy web series Triplets of Kings County and was nominated “Best Director” at the Brooklyn Web Fest.
“I got my start as an assistant to National Geographic photographer Stephen Wilkes and later on Jill Greenberg, Pamela Hanson, and more. I kept the lights on as a live music photographer while also writing and recording my own music in New York City. That was the plan, but my curiosity with filmmaking led me to a position at Industrial Color’s video department and later working as a camera assistant with cinematographer Shane Sigler. I was also very fortunate to work on Ken Burn’s The Vietnam War (2017) as a camera operator, for a history nerd like me that experience was a dream come true.”
“I wrote my first short film Five Trips (2015) while working in Southeast Asia, it was a bit of a love letter to the early-20s antics I was missing out on while working overseas. Five Trips (2015) screened at the Northside Film Festival in Brooklyn, NY, and soon after I was approached to direct music video and commercial projects. I found my love of working with actors, casting, bringing to life the characters, and worlds, I explored in my photography, music, and writing. There was endless potential in the humor, the ugliness, and the beauty of humanity. Combining all of that was just filmmaking, and I was hooked.”
Nick writes a performs music under the project The Bigst Hands.