Joe Nicolosi

Joe Nicolosi is an Austin-based filmmaker and multi-year alumni of SXSW for his film bumpers and short films. In 2009 he won the ‘George Lucas Award’ for his short film “Star Wars: Retold” and was named one of the ’25 Faces of Independent Film’ in 2011.

Joe was born and raised in New York where he also attended college upstate, studying Film, Theater and Writing.

After college, Joe felt particularly inspired by the film ‘Road Trip’ and relocated from Ithaca to Austin to continue perusing filmmaking and animation. Since then he has directed numerous television commercials and short films.

In 2014 he released HELL NO: The Sensible Horror film, which played dozens of film festivals domestically and internationally and amassed over seven million views on youTube.

Joe is currently the series director for It’s Okay to be Smart, a weekly science show published by PBS Digital Studios.

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