Nickolas Perry (born December 3, 1967) is an American film director, writer, editor, photographer, and film instructor who began his career working as a camera assistant and assistant director on independent films in San Francisco before becoming Francis Ford Coppola's editing assistant on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
[1] In 1995, Perry wrote and directed Must Be the Music, a short film starring Milo Ventimiglia and Michael Saucedo as gay teens on a Friday night out in Los Angeles.
[2] In 2004, Perry co-wrote, co-directed, and edited The Hunting of the President, an American documentary film based on the New York Times best-selling novel, The Hunting of the President: The Ten Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, written by investigative journalists Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, and published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2000.
[3] With Harry Thomason, Perry was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for the film.
[5] He works as a script doctor and as a consultant on low-budget features and documentaries, advising first-time directors on independent film completion, distribution, and marketing.