Nicholas D. Wrathall

Nicholas D. Wrathall spent his childhood in Sydney, Australia and Canada, and made his first film while attending Sydney University. At 22 he moved to New York where he began to make his way as an Assistant Director and Producer for music videos and commercials shot around the world, including Madonna’s Frozen, which won the 1998 MTV Award for Best Music Video. He was first recognized for his direction of the documentary Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants, which was featured on PBS Independent Lens and won the 2000 Alfred I. duPont Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism. With a lifelong interest in politics and social issues, Nicholas strives to use filmmaking as a tool to inspire people to question media representation and reignite the art of critical thinking. He has produced the films Gardens of the Night (2008) and The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2003). Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) is another documentary he has directed.

Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT de Madrid