Nick Conedera

Filmmaker. Artist. Entrepreneur. Nick was born in sunny San Diego. Growing up, he was always around art. His dad ran his own graphic design business out of the house, following in the footsteps of Nick's grandfather - an Italian painter, designer, photographer, engineer, and entrepreneur. At age 14, Nick met his first love: filmmaking. It was love at first sight. At age 15, he got his first professional editing gig for local musician Mike Keneally. He continued doing freelance design and video work throughout high school for clients like EF Tours and Girl Scouts of America. At age 17, Nick became the Vice President of the Rancho Bernardo High School Digital Media club, one of the top high school broadcast journalism programs in the country. He considers himself lucky to have been a part of a program like Digital Media where he could spend hours and hours after school editing projects and gaining access to a wide variety of professional equipment. Little did he know, Digital Media was the perfect head start into filmmaking. By the time Nick graduated high school, he had completed about 75 film/video projects, and won about 25 awards for his work, including three Student Emmy Awards. At age 18, Nick began studying film and photography at Chapman University in Orange, CA. He also began carrying a camera on me 24/7, a tradition that he still upholds today. At age 19, Nick's grandfather passed away, which had a profound effect on his art and life. At at age 20, he moved to Italy for three months to discover his Italian roots, find his grandfather's childhood home, and study photography. At age 22, Nick graduated from Chapman University, Magna Cum Laude. By the time he graduated college, he had been on over 50 professional and student film sets. Nick currently lives in Los Angeles where he runs a lucrative freelance videography business so he can make time to work on personal projects of his own.