A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Nika is an actor, writer, and director from rural Northern California who lives between Los Angeles and Paris. She writes, directs, acts, and edits on screen and runs a black box theater company in Los Angeles where she is a member of the acting collective. She has made over 10 short films in this multi-hyphenate capacity, as well as her first feature film BRINDISI, the Italian-American bilingual comedy, now available on Amazon-Prime. Her script POLO was on the Blacklist in 2023, a female sports movie about Waterpolo and PTSD, which she intends to direct.
Director:
2019 Brindisi
2020 Open Arms
2021 Cosmic Disaster
2022 Four Chairs
Editor:
2019 Brindisi
2020 Open Arms
2021 Cosmic Disaster
2022 Four Chairs
2023 True Love Waits
2024 After Annecy
Producer:
2019 Brindisi
2020 Open Arms
2021 Cosmic Disaster
2022 Four Chairs
2023 True Love Waits
2024 After Annecy
Writer:
2019 Brindisi
2020 Just Like Yesterday
2020 Open Arms
2021 Cosmic Disaster
2022 Four Chairs
2023 True Love Waits
2024 After Annecy
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Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.