NIC COLLINS
DIRECT I WRITE I EDIT I PRODUCE
BEACHED
Web Series
SXSW Official Selection, a three-part horror-fantasy comedy about a whale-humanoid who comes to the surface to take away humanity’s pain.
PERFECT MAN
Short Film
Official Selection: DTLA Film Festival, Bureau of Creative Works, Film Maudit 2.0, Film Shortage Daily Short Pick.
Set in the near future, a virtual reality–addicted woman is forced to remove her headset for three hours — and orders Perfect Man, a robotic love companion, to escape the world she’s been avoiding.
Available on DUST.
SOLAR BLADER
Short Film
An animated, mythic, cosmic odyssey about a lone warrior who journeys across galaxies at his dying father’s request — to find an all-knowing entity that may hold the key to existence itself.
Available on Bizaar.
BEASTS
Feature Film
Official Selection: Oregon Underground Film Festival, Berlin Underground Film Festival, and Mumblecore Film Festival.
Set two years after college, Beasts follows a group of friends drifting through love, betrayal, and burnout as their youth unravels. A raw, chaotic, and darkly funny portrait of post-grad collapse.
Available on Amazon Prime.
YEAR OF THE SNAKE
Web Series
Official Selection at 20+ film festivals including FilmQuest, Stareable, and Gen Con. 3x Best Web Series Winner.
A nine-part series about an interdimensional assassin sent to kill a lonely stoner — but instead becomes his best friend. Through love, religion, and punk rock, he begins to understand what it means to be human, all while hunted by a demonic clown god and a relentless shape-shifter.
PUNK BITCH
Short Film
Official Selection: Boston Underground Film Festival, Indie Incubator Film Festival, and Wretched Nobles Film Festival.
A self-proclaimed "punk bitch" faces the emotional fallout of her “free” lifestyle.
SHRIEK
Short Film
A lonely millionaire hires three Black actors to play his “best friends” — but only as the racist stereotypes Hollywood demands.
Watch.
STEALING FROM THE GODS
Pilot
Two knucklehead private investigators stumble into a case stranger than anything they've seen before: a pro wrestler, a dangerous street drug called CHUD, and a trail that might lead straight into other realms.
RUINERS
Proof of Concept
RUINERS follows Frankie Flaymes, a masked vigilante who spends his nights hunting online predators. In this dark indie short film, a simple confrontation spirals into a gritty showdown where the line between justice and violence blurs.