Michael Beach Nichols

Michael Beach Nichols is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and the recipient of Jerome Foundation and Rooftop Filmmaker grants. His acclaimed breakthrough feature film, Welcome to Leith (2015), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and later aired on PBS' Independent Lens, where it was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary. His debut feature Flex is Kings (2013) was the opening night film in the Viewpoints section at the Tribeca Film Festival. Recently, he shot and produced Susanne Bartsch: On Top (2017), which was EP'd by RuPaul, and directed and shot his third feature film, Wrinkles the Clown (2019), for the Academy Award winning Topic Studios, which will be released by Magnolia Pictures in Fall 2019. He is the co-founder of No Weather, a filmmaking collaborative based in NYC