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William Nix

Los Angeles, California

Chairman/Producer

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Title/Occupation:  Educator  Executive  Producer  Producer's Rep  Supporter of the Arts 

Services Provided:  Foundations/Funding Source  Media Arts Organization  Seminars/Workshops 

Gender: Male

Race: Caucasian/White

Citizenship: United States

Languages Spoken: English; Spanish; French

Biography: WILLIAM NIX is currently the Chairman of the Creative Projects Group (creativeprojectsgroup.com), and also serves as a Director on the Board of the Creative Projects Group Foundation. Creative Projects Group is a production development incubator and producer of motion picture, television, music, interactive games and live entertainment content and event production company that is headquartered in Los Angeles. He works to raise capital and executive produce, license and distribute in all major entertainment media. Among his work with various Film Commissions, Mr. Nix was instrumental in pioneering the enactment of tax credit and rebate incentive legislation for the State of Texas in order to foster the production of film, television and interactive digital media . He actively works with other states and on the federal and international level in support of similar measures. Mr. Nix was the Executive Producer of “Firedancer,” a film about the Afghan Diaspora in the U.S. and the first Afghan feature film to be submitted for Oscar consideration. That film had its world premiere in Kabul and its U.S. premiere at the Tribecca Film Festival in New York. He served in the same capacity on the companion documentary, “Return to Afghanistan” that premiered at the U.N. Film Festival in New York in October 2007. He also served as Executive Producer for the Spanish-language documentary feature, “!Ya Basta!” that premiered at SXSW, which focused on the abduction phenomenon in Mexico. Serving as Executive Producer and through the Gibran: The Prophet/Prophet Screen Partners Production Companies, he is currently in production on an globally collaborative animated feature of Kahlil Gibran's iconic work "The Prophet" along with Producer Salma Hayek and Animation Director Roger Allers, as well as the Producer of a parallel biographical dramatic feature film based on the life and works of Kahlil Gibran (www.thegibranprojects.com) and producing a related North Armerican Art Exhibition Tour and book of Collected Gibran Artworks that is to be published by Skira Rizzoli Publishing. He is the Executive Producer for a documentary "This is Ragtime: The Birth of American Music" (www.thisisragtime.com) with virtuoso Terry Waldo (www.terrywaldo.com) and Wynton Marsalis, a Reality TV Project entitled "Road to Houston" (www.theroadprojects.com), a transmedia installation project entitled "Fluid Experience," with photographer Matthew Jordan Smith (www.thefluidexperience.com), and a global musical collaborative documentary entitled "Voice of the Child" with Producer/Composer Odette Springer (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29RWyjbpxoM8vtZN-megwA/videos). He is also preparing to write, produce and direct a documentary currently entitled “Paparazzi,” a 360-industry review of the historical and current role and practices of celebrity and public figure media coverage. In private practice, he was Co-Chair of the BakerBotts Entertainment, Media and Sports Law Practice Group, where he represented clients in intellectual property, entertainment, sports, and Internet/new media law. Mr. Nix is the former Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs for NBA Properties, Inc., where he had worldwide legal and business responsibilities for the commercial development, marketing, and protection of the trademarked and copyrighted properties of the NBA and its teams. Before joining NBA Properties, Mr. Nix was with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for sixteen years. In his most recent position, he served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of its Worldwide Anti-Piracy Division. This group guards the copyrights and trademarks against counterfeiting, illegal duplication, broadcast/cable/satellite signal theft and unauthorized performances, in all media, for the major motion picture and television studios During his tenure, he engineered the expansion of this industry enterprise to one that is currently active in over 65 countries, with nearly 1,500 employees and representatives with a $25 million annual operating budget that he oversaw during his tenure. Mr. Nix has published and lectured widely, and been interviewed extensively by the television, radio, and print press in the United States and internationally. He currently serves as the Managing Director of the Straus Institute's Entertainment, Media and Sports ADR Project (www. law.pepperdine.edu/straus/news/entertainment-media-sports-project.htm) at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He was an adjunct professor of sports law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University in New York City. He will be teaching in the Entertainment Studies Program at UCLA during 2009 and has matriculated in UCLA’s Film, Television and Digital Entertainment Production degree program and the Summer 2009 Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution in the Entertainment and Sports Industries . Mr. Nix is conversant in French, Spanish and some spoken Japanese. His education includes: Columbia University School of Law, Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law Program; LL.M., Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law; J.D., Hofstra University School of Law; Dean’s Distinguished Service Award; Senior Editor, Moot Court Board of Editors; M.A., History/Teaching, Antioch College; and A.B., English and American literature, Georgetown University. He is a lifetime voting-member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has served on its Documentary Feature Film Award Nominating Committee for several year and currently serves on its Educational Grants Committee, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences , serving as a Judge on its 2009 College Television Awards Panel, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and the International Documentary Association, having served on its 2008 Documentary Feature Nominating Jury. He has also served on the Boards of Advisors/Directors of the Austin Film Festival, Project GRAD USA, The Peter Pan Children’s Fund, 4Empowerment and Paramount Business Jets among others.