Nicolas Brown
agent: Natalie Spanier - natalie@sternwild.com
Nicolas’ films have won 4 Emmys, 2 BAFTAs and over 65 major festival awards worldwide. He is best known for his Feature documentaries such as The Serengeti Rules, which won 25 major festival awards, including an Emmy for “Outstanding Nature Documentary”. He is equally known for his television work, such as the Emmy-winning Climate Chaos (with Sir David Attenborough) and the BAFTA and Emmy-winning episodes of the BBC/Discovery’s Human Planet.
In recent years he has been directing, producing, and writing feature-length documentaries dedicated to inspiring change. Blue Carbon will Premiere this spring on CNN and has been a headline event for UNESCO and the UN, including recently at COP28. The Letter (with Pope Francis) has been viewed 8.7 million times on YouTube Originals and may have set a Guinness World Record when it was simultaneously screened to a crowd of over a million people in Lisbon on World Youth Day, 2023. Nicolas’ 3D IMAX film Pandas: The Journey Home (National Geographic) won multiple festival awards and shined new light on conservation efforts in China.
Directing and producing landmark television series has been Nicolas’ other focus. H2O: The Molecule That Made Us for PBS won “best series” at both the Wildscreen and Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festivals. Earth: A New Wild also won “best series” and “best conservation film” at Wildscreen and Jackson Hole, which are considered the “Oscars for wildlife films”.
Nicolas is also a veteran drama-documentary director—he was lead director on First Peoples for PBS, Mankind for the History Channel, I Shouldn’t Be Alive for Discovery/Channel 4, If… for BBC 2 and Ice Age Columbus for Discovery.
In Nicolas’ early career, he directed the premium reality series The Frontier House and The Colonial House for PBS/Channel 4. Both were amongst the first reality television shows to be nominated for Emmys.
Brown collaborates with world leaders such as Pope Francis, Sir David Attenborough, President Barak Obama, as well as musicians such as the Wu Tang Clan, Seu Jorge and Jayda G, in efforts to raise awareness of the natural world. Nicolas led the Blue Media Lab, an environmental think tank dedicated to shining a light on world water issues. He is founder of the Echoes Festival Alliance.
Athletic and trained for the outdoors, Nicolas is at home in extreme and hostile environments. He has filmed expeditions in the Arctic, climbed summits of some of the world’s highest peaks, taken a submarine 3000 feet under the sea, and kayaked on first descents of rivers around the world. Nicolas has also worked undercover in Uzbekistan, made a film about Timbuktu, filmed in Gaza during wartime, and covered crime stories in Italy and Ireland.