UNFORTUNATE
After his bicycle is stolen, a 10 year old birthday boy is dragged by his father on a journey out of their middle-class neighborhood to search for it.
UN·FORTUNATE aims to raise questions about a familiar crisis in Los Angeles by having the audience review it from the perspective of a child.
Commissioned for the Academy of Motion Picture Museum's Shifting Perspectives: Vertical Cinema exhibit!
THE TAKE
An agent on the run organizes a black-market sale of government goods that are "out of this world."
The concept was pitched and selected in competition to be developed alongside Apple's
global agency Media Arts LAB/TBWA.
Garnerned millions of views on Instagram.
Commissioned by Apple in its Vertical Cinema initiative,
TRANSIENT
A homeless was-college-student, finds himself accepting an older man's offer of a place to stay and a new start, but his addiction and the old man's past force an intervention in their goals.
Produced as part of USC School
of Cinematic Arts Production
program in 2020.
GHOST OF A CHANCE
A failing playwright finds and steals the last written work of William Shakespeare, whose ghost comes back to haunt him and ruin his opening night.
Niko directed this when he was 16 as part of an extra-curricular film school program he attended during high school.
