“To me, a talent is just a fun, unique person”
“When people ask me what I do, I just say I’m New York’s unofficial headhunter.” He loves his city so much that he showcases the city’s unique characters on social media and even dedicated a movie to them, Out of Order. Brut spent an afternoon with New York Nico. It all started when he met Te’Devan: “He’s the one who made me fall in love with New York again. I had gone to Los Angeles to try to break into a music video director and came back feeling discouraged and defeated. I was hanging out in Union Square one day when I spotted this local celebrity I had seen since high school. I asked him if I could shoot a short film about him. And he told me yes”.
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Since then, he has paid tribute in videos to the various personalities of the city on social networks such as Instagram. “To me, a talent is just an interesting, fun, unique person. There’s something about the New York attitude that I can’t quite define, but you can always tell if someone is New York or not. There is also friendship. I make friends with everyone I film”. Tiger Hood golfing down the street with milk cartons, Charlie Da Wolf “who is just a grumpy old guy who lives in Williamsburg”or the customers of the Italian caterer Anthony & Son on Graham Avenue in Williamsburg, which is the “second unofficial HQ” of the director. with his movie Out of Orderreleased in 2022, it features them: “With my new movie, I made movie stars out of these people”.
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