Nick Morton
As a producer at Whitewater Films, Nick has Executive Produced many films including Band of Robbers, Punching Henry, andStanding Up, Falling Down. The feature Afternoon Delight was Executive Produced by Nick, and won the Best Director Award at Sundance for Jill Soloway. As a Producer on Fat Kid Rules the World, he enjoyed the film’s success at SXSW where it won the Audience Award.
Prior to joining Whitewater, Nick served as Executive Vice President of Development and Production at Baldwin Entertainment Group where he was in charge of all creative aspects of the company’s development and production slate. In that capacity, he Executive Produced DEATH SENTENCE which starred Kevin Bacon and was directed by James Wan (SAW). The film was released by Fox Atomic. The diverse development slate included ATLAS SHRUGGED, MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN and THE GORDIE HOWE STORY. Prior to B.E.G. he served as Vice President of Development at Crusader Entertainment and was a co-producer on RAY, SWIMMING UPSTREAM, GAME OF THEIR LIVES, JOSHUA and SAHARA. Before Crusader, Nick spent five-years at Phoenix Pictures where he served as Vice President of Production and oversaw such movies as WHATEVER IT TAKES, URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT, DICK, and VERTICAL LIMIT. Over the course of his career, Nick has worked with many of the top writers and directors in the industry. He has developed a reputation as an executive that both filmmakers and financiers can trust. His varied experience enables him to move comfortably from the free-wheeling creativity of the script development process to the more practical exigencies of film production. This range gives him the unique ability to oversee a project from its inception as an idea through production to a film’s final mix. Nick began his career in the Independent Film Department at the William Morris Agency where he worked on a team that focused on building films and companies around filmmakers both inside and outside of the studio system.