Nicholas de Pencier
Nicholas de Pencier is a Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker. The spouse and professional partner of filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal in Mercury Films, he is the cinematographer and producer on most of her films as well as codirector of the films Long Time Running. and . He was also solo director of the 2016 documentary Black Code.
He won a Genie Award in 2007, alongside Baichwal, Gerry Flahive, Daniel Iron and Peter Starr for Manufactured Landscapes and a Canadian Screen Award in 2011 alongside Baichwal, Iron and Edward Burtynsky for Watermark, and was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Nature Programming in 2010 for "The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies", an episode of Nova.Personal life
He is the son of magazine publisher Michael de Pencier, and the brother of film and television producer Miranda de Pencier.Filmography
- Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles - cinematographer, producer
- The Uncles - producer
- ' - cinematographer, producer
- Manufactured Landscapes - cinematographer, producer
- One Week - producer
- Act of God - cinematographer, producer
- Payback - cinematographer
- The End of Time - cinematographer
- Watermark - producer, cinematographer
- The Ghosts in Our Machine - cinematographer
- Al Purdy Was Here - cinematographer
- Black Code - director, producer
- Long Time Running - director, editor
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