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Nick Spark

Los Angeles

Producer

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Title/Occupation:  Producer 

Services Provided:  Stock/Archival Footage 

Gender: Male

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: United States

Brief Message to Members: 

Nick Spark is a documentary filmmaker and writer.  He is also the co-owner of an historical stock footage company with a focus on military, transportation and aviation content.

Biography: 

Nick Spark is an award winning documentary producer, director and writer.  His
most recent project The Legend of Pancho Barnes is an unconventional
portrait of a tough, daring female pilot who broke Amelia Earhart’s air speed
record and smashed gender barriers.  The documentary recently won a
regional Emmy Award for best Arts & Culture /History program, as well as
awards at a number of festivals including Best Documentary at the Los Angeles
Women’s Film Festival and Audience Awards at Big Muddy and San Luis
Obispo.  It continues to air on PBS throughout the U.S., as well as in
Australia and Europe in 2012. Previously, Nick produced and directed Regulus:
The First Nuclear Missile Submarines for Discovery Channel Europe.  As
an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona, Nick directed Just
Puttering Around, a documentary profile of an octogenarian folk artist that
won the student Emmy.  He then attended the USC School of Cinematic
Arts where he earned an MFA in film production and directed Uncle
Milton’s Ant Farm, a portrait of the inventor of the educational toy that
was a film festival favorite.  He also produced Upholding the Promise,
a documentary about federal judges that won another student Emmy, and conducted
interviews for a profile of philanthropist Walter Annenberg with luminaries
such as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Gerald Ford, First Lady
Nancy Reagan, and Gen. Colin Powell.  An accomplished researcher and writer
of non-fiction, Nick has had articles published in the U.S. Navy’s Proceedings,
Flash Art, Aviation History, and the IDA’s Documentary
among others and was honored with the Author's Award by the American Aviation
Historical Society.  He has also been interviewed about his historical
research by NPR, Japan’s NHK, and recently appeared on PBS’ History
Detectives.   Currently he is making a documentary entitled Rightfooted
about Jessica Cox, a 29-year-old motivational speaker and a pilot who was born
without arms as the result of a congenital birth defect.