Nicholas Peterson is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

 (CalArts) where he developed skills in stop-motion animation. In 1998 Peterson crewed on the first ever stop-motion IMAX

IMAX

IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...

 film More, later nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Soon after, he made his own stop-motion short film MuM receiving critical acclaim at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 and winning a College Emmy Award.

In 2001 Peterson made the live action short film Cookies for Harry, before setting sights on directing a low budget feature film. In spring 2006 Peterson completed his first independent feature film Intellectual Property starring Christopher Masterson

Christopher Masterson

Christopher Kennedy Masterson is an American actor known most for his role as Francis on Malcolm in the Middle.- Early life :Masterson was born to Peter and Carol Masterson on Long Island, New York, on January 22, 1980...

 of Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

.

Peterson continues to live and work in Los Angeles.

Filmography

• Intellectual Property
  Intellectual Property (film)
  Intellectual Property is a 2006 film starring Christopher Masterson and Lyndsy Fonseca. It was written, produced and directed by Nicholas Peterson.- Plot :...
  
   (2006)
• Cookies for Harry (2001)
• MuM (1999)

Awards

• Australian International Film Festival
  Australian International Film Festival
  The Australian International Film Festival, or AIFF, was a Melbourne festival held in 2006.An earlier festival with this name was renamed to Canberra International Film Festival.- Awards :...
  
   Silver Spotlight Award - Intellectual Property (2006)
• ATAS Foundation College Television Awards 1999 (nominated) Traditional Animation - MuM (1999)
• Hamptons International Film Festival 1999 Undergraduate Student Film Award - MuM (1999)
• Matita Animation Film Festival 1999 Matita Grand Prix for Professionals - MuM (1999)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Australian International Film Festival-Intellectual Property (2007)

BEST FILM Oxford International Film Festival - Intellectual Property (2007)

BEST DIRECTOR Oxford International Film Festival - Intellectual Property (2007)

BEST ACTOR CHRISTOPHER MASTERSON Oxford International Film Festival - Intellectual Property (2007)

GRAND JURY PRIZE - BEST FILM DC Independent Film Festival - Intellectual Property (2007)

External links

• Intellectual Property