Nic Blower is a filmmaker, series and executive producer from the UK who has worked for the BBC producing and directing documentaries and drama documentaries. His critically acclaimed film Transplant (BBC1) followed both sides of the organ donation story, a first for UK television. His work has taken him all over the world and his subjects include neurosurgery in the film The Brain Hospital, social housing in the series Neighbourhood Watched, missing people in the The Day They Disappeared, forensic science in the film No Ordinary Murder, all broadcast on the BBC. Nic’s approach to his documentary work focuses on deep access, combining Direct Cinema and Cinéma Vérité. Nic has made a number of short fiction films including Periphery that won best film awards at Buxton film festival and Lakeshore festival in Canada.
In 2019 Nic made LIFTED, a raw and powerful documentary about war veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the film has been screened in prisons, military barracks and to mental health workers in the UK and the Netherlands. LIFTED had been officially selected by five international festivals, opening Essex DocFest and won an award at the 2020 Docs Without Borders festival.
Nic’s latest film We’re In This Too puts professional cameras in the hands of four young people to film their lives during the pandemic in 2020. This engaging 40’ film is currently being screened to local authorities to inform their wellbeing policies and will be submitted to film festivals.
Nic is a senior lecturer in fiction and documentary film making at the University of Essex, UK.
