About This Event
The Wolf
(USA, 2000, 55 minutes)
Peter Nicks’ first hour-long documentary and most intimate project, The Wolf is a fearless chronicle of the filmmaker’s own drug addiction, trafficking, and ultimate incarceration during his college years. Touching on the societal issues that led up to that time, Nicks presents candid interviews with those who went through the experience with him: his adoptive parents, friends, and even the judge who sentenced him. Originally broadcast on ABC’s Nightline, the film counters simplistic views propagated by the “War on Drugs.”
Peter Nicks is an award-winning director/cinematographer known for immersive camera work, cinema vérité style, and films that explore complex social issues through intimate, character-driven non-fiction narratives. His recent feature documentary works include Anthem, following composer Kris Bowers’ journey to create a new American anthem, and Stephen Curry: Underrated, the coming-of-age story of a Bay Area basketball superstar. A graduate of Howard University, and with a Masters from the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, Nicks is the founder of Open’hood, a nonprofit media organization that uses storytelling to create more active and connected communities, and, along with Ryan Coogler, co-founder of Proximity Media.
About This Event
The Wolf
(USA, 2000, 55 minutes)
Peter Nicks’ first hour-long documentary and most intimate project, The Wolf is a fearless chronicle of the filmmaker’s own drug addiction, trafficking, and ultimate incarceration during his college years. Touching on the societal issues that led up to that time, Nicks presents candid interviews with those who went through the experience with him: his adoptive parents, friends, and even the judge who sentenced him. Originally broadcast on ABC’s Nightline, the film counters simplistic views propagated by the “War on Drugs.”
Peter Nicks is an award-winning director/cinematographer known for immersive camera work, cinema vérité style, and films that explore complex social issues through intimate, character-driven non-fiction narratives. His recent feature documentary works include Anthem, following composer Kris Bowers’ journey to create a new American anthem, and Stephen Curry: Underrated, the coming-of-age story of a Bay Area basketball superstar. A graduate of Howard University, and with a Masters from the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, Nicks is the founder of Open’hood, a nonprofit media organization that uses storytelling to create more active and connected communities, and, along with Ryan Coogler, co-founder of Proximity Media.