Nicholas Zebrun

He is of Russian and Ukrainian descent. Both paternal and maternal grandparents emigrated to the United States through Ellis Island in the early 20th century. His mother's family comes from the Carpathian region of Ukraine, the same area where the peasants in Dracula (1931) reside.

From his earliest days, Nicholas Zebrun knew he wanted to be a filmmaker. Raised on classic films and television, it was seeing Citizen Kane (1941) at the age of five that convinced him that he wanted to work both in front of and behind the camera. He was raised in Fort Worth, Texas and throughout his middle school and high school years won many awards for his writing and singing abilities.

Is a huge fan of both the Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) and James Bond franchises.

He graduated from Southwest High School and immediately began plans to start his own production company, which he did in 2005.

He honed his craft by making the short thriller Midnight Ransom (2005) and it's explosive sequel Midday Ransom (2005) and then paired up with his production partner David Sowden to produce White Powder (2006), A Part (2008), and A Girls Night Out (2009).

He also produced Block (2009), Leah (2011), and Banana & Kim (2013) with writer/director David Paul and the TCU Student Film Association.

At the start of the 2010's, Mr.

After that, his work branched out to include his first feature-length film Variations on a High School Romance (2010), and his multi-award winning movies Noir City (2014), Three Conversations About Two People in One Place (2015), and Requiem for a Shallow Heart (2016).

Zebrun briefly flirted with politics when he ran for Fort Worth Mayor in 2011.

He also produced the award winning short film Room 206 and the Evenings After (2012).