Nic Wistreich
web design/UX, film, writing, audiences, theatre and events
Work
(updated April 2015)
January 2015
Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas
Multilingual scrolling site for WG Films' new documentary.
October 2014
Circle Interactive
Design / Theme
New site for -based Drupal/CiviCRM agency/p>
September 2014
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Design / Theme / Build
Ahead of 150th celebrations, full makeover with Bootstrap, via Circle-Interactive
July 2014 - Dec 2014
Honeycomb Creative
Researcher
Mapping project of digital creative industries in Ireland.
July 2014
Green Party Members
Design / Theme
Designed the new Green Party member's sites (thru Circle Interactive) ahead of 300%+ membership growth.
June 2014
SWIM Lab
Mentor / Talk
Mentor on Scandinavian Interactive Media Lab in Sweden.
May 2014
Freshfields Burckhaus Deringer
Wordpress theme for accessibility site via Circle Int.
October 2013
People Over Capital
Chapter author
Wrote chapter in book by New Internationalist.
September 2012
Open Source Capitalism
Prize-winning essay in Ethical Consumer & New Internationalist's Year of the Coop Essay Prize contest.
Sept 2012
Person-Centred Therapy Scotland
Design, Civi, CiviCRM & Joomla & migration
June 2012
Future My Love
Scrolling-animated site on Joomla & Nation Builder for feature doc.
April 2011 - December 2013
The Virtuous Circle
Consultant, Scottish Doc Institute
Co-designed & helped fundraise project (intro) looking at audiences, distribution, marketing, PMD & social-CRM over multiple films.
Sept 2010 - April 2011
Big Open Playlister
Project director
Creative Scotland funded project to make video and interactive content playlister for multiple screens.
Sept 2010 - present
British Association for the Person Centred Approach
Design, Joomla & CiviCRM.
May 2009 - present
World Association for Person Centred Psychotherapy
CiviCRM & Joomla.
Sept 2008 - April 2009
Living Cinema
Project director
Technology Strategy Board funded R&D project exploring live-generated cinema, alternative spaces, pop-up and micro cinemas.
October 2007
Contemporary Footage
A database of details on 14,000 library clips
October 2007
How to Fund Your Film, Multi-Party Finance Explained
Article for BBC Online's Film Network.
July 2007
Satyajit Ray Foundation
Print, web design and Joomla site for foundation.
May 2007, 2009, 2012
How to Fund Your Film, Global Edition
Co-author, editor, publisher
Acclaimed, exhaustive guide to film finance in 40 countries.
May 2005
How to Fund Your Film, Film Finance Handbook UK
Co-author, editor, publisher
October 2003 - March 2005
0point1
Event & AV Director
Pitched for & managed events with the AV collective 0.1, including the Res Fest Closing Night Party; the launch for Publicis’ Cannes Lion winning HyPe Gallery for Hewlett Packard and the 4 Children Awards for the Foreign Office.
May 2003
Get Your Film Funded, UK Film Finance Guide
Co-author, editor, designer
Bestselling book for Shooting People.
Feb 2002 - Sept 2004
ShootingPeople.org
Development Director
First employee of the filmmaking community during expansion from free email discussion list to profitable subscription service with over 40,000 members, US office, publishing arm, etc
July 2001
Digital Asset Management
Author
Executive-level book for Informa Media on convergence and developments across film, music, games, publishing and web.
July 2000
International Film & TV Rights
Co-author
Executive-level book for Market Tracking International.
December 1999 - Present
Netribution
Co-founder, Director, Publisher
1.5m monthly page views and no.1 Google ranking for ‘film industry’ at its peak, Netribution was a free zine & resource for indie filmmakers - with dozens of contributors. After a relaunch in 2006 focussed on public-funded R&D.
Summer 1997
Eclipse
Producer/Director
World-premiere of Simon Armitage's first play: Harrogate Theatre Studio & Edinburgh Fringe Festival. "Theatre at its best" The Stage.
Productions
Created through a series of creative collaborations between Nic Wistreich, Rachael Halliwell, Jane McGee, Tom Fogg, Francis Morgan Giles and others.
Theatre
At 15 in 1995 Nic Wistreich founded the Flying Theatre Group with Rachael Halliwell and friends.
Escapes, Harrogate Theatre
Director, Producer
A devised mashup of Antigone, Streetcar Named Desire, Midsummer Night's Dream, A View from the Bridge, the Pied Piper of Hamlyn & Shirley Valentine at Harrogate Theatre.
Eclipse, Harrogate Theatre
Director, Producer
World Premiere of Simone Armitage's first play, Eclipse.
"Theatre at its best" The Stage
Eclipse, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Director, Producer
Edinburgh transfer of Simon Armitage's play, Eclipse.
"4 stars. Excellent" The Scotsman
Documentary
Nancy, hi8 - 1998
dir/etc: Nic Wistreich, edited with Francis Morgan Giles
A video portrait of Nic's grandmother, Nancy
Nic worked with Tom Fogg (and sometimes Jane McGee) to produce ultra-low budget broadcast standard documentaries for the short-lived TV channel DKTV.
Fish - DKTV - 2001
dir: Nic Wistreich, producer/camera: Tom Fogg
From the harbour-side of Newlyn in Cornwall we follow seafood through the markets and 'blockers' to a plate in Greenwich London.
Brit Hip Hop - DKTV - 2001
dir: Nic Wistreich, producer/camera: Tom Fogg
A tour across the grafiti, beat-box, scratch and MC scenes in the UK Hip Hop world.
Birdmen - DKTV - 2001
Director: Jane McGee, co-prod: Nic Wistreich
Directed by Jane McGeeA tale of two men who love their birds and hate each other: one keeps racing pigeons, the other a hawk-for-hire, bred to attack pigeons.
Queue the Music - DKTV - 2001
Tom Fogg, Jane McGee, Nic Wistreich collaboration
London's cub world. told through the queuese.
Antipodeans in London - DKTV
Co-dir/Co-prod: Nic Wistreich & Jane McGee
What drives antipodeans to live in London?
Watch This - Tag Theatre - 2006
director/producer: Nic Wistreich, co-editor: Neil Maguire
Following Scotland's oldest theatre-in-education company, a look at the benefits of theatre in Education, staring Ewan McGreggor.
Shorts
Creation, DV, 15mins - 2003
dir/writer: Nic Wistreich, camera: Tom Fogg, producer: Jane McGee, editor/post: Francis Morgan Giles
When the words don't come, what will? Thriller about an unwelcome solution to writers block.
Vingles/Clip-Hop
Real Know How
Young MC Knowhow meets West Side Story's Dance at the Gym
Us People Are Just Poems
Ani DiFranco, Self Evident meets Koyanisqaatsi & 2003 march
Subway Sun
Stars of the Lid with NYC Subway & Philadelphia nature reserve
To Lose a Home
Cinematic Orchestra & Wilton Street tenement collapse
How much still left to own
Truman Show, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Kyanisqaatsi, Sam & Dave, Daft Punk, Annie
I tell you my dream
Chemical Brothers & Outkast meet Paint your Wagon, Singing in the Rain, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Carmen Jones & Thoroughly Modern Millie
Live events
Francis Morgan Giles & Nic Wistreich created 0.1 (with Marco Ruffati originally) to create and deliver live-AV multimedia parties.
Living Cinema: Newcastle
Francis & Nic with Yuva, Star and Shadow Cinema, 2009
Living Cinema: London
Francis & Nic with Yuva, Eelyn Lee Productions, Thomas Tallis School, 2009
Return to Eden
0.1, Bradford Film Festival, 2004
HyPe Gallery closing part
0.1 for Hewlett Packard & Publicis, 2004
HyPe Gallery pre-launch partyn
0.1 for Hewlett Packard & Publicis, 2004
This Is Clip Hop" Resfest closing night party
0.1, ResFest / Palm Pictures, 2003