Nick Capezzera

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Astoria, NY US

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Nick Capezzera (he/him) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and co-founder of Player Piano Productions. In 2020, he was a co-producer and co-cinematographer of the documentary short, Maia Cruz Palileo - Becoming the Moon, which premiered on PBS. That same year his directorial debut, Universe, on famed trumpeter and Miles Davis protege, Wallace Roney, premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest and won the IDA award for best music documentary of the year. Capezzera was most recently a co-producer and cinematographer of the 2021 documentary film Building a Bridge, about a priest's journey to make the catholic church more accepting of the LGBTQ+ community. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the film world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, had its broadcast premiere on Sundance TV and is currently streaming on AMC+. In 2022 Nick was awarded the Leanne Ka’iulani Ferrer fellowship for his next project, a memoir film about his experience as a Korean adoptee.

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