Casey Neistat

Directing

Casey Neistat

Born 1981-03-25 · Gales Ferry, Connecticut, USA

Casey learned everything he knows about filmmaking from his brother, Van. He is the creator, writer, and director of the HBO series The Neistat Brothers, and the producer behind the Independent Spirit Award-winning film, Daddy Long Legs. In addition, Neistat's daily YouTube show has garnered over 3 billion views throughout its 500+ episodes.

Acting credits

Nerve poster
7.0

Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

Nerve

2016

Project Power poster
6.4

An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.

Project Power

2020

Airplane Mode poster
2.6

En route to the world's largest social media convention in Australia, Logan Paul is scared to death; today is his first time flying. All of his worst nightmares come true when the passengers refuse to switch their phones to airplane mode, causing the plane's controls to go haywire and electrocuting the pilots.

Airplane Mode

2019

Daddy Longlegs poster
6.6

After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.

Daddy Longlegs

2010

Lily Topples The World poster
7.5

Follow 20-year-old Lily Hevesh — the world’s greatest domino toppler and the only woman in her field — in a coming-of-age story of artistry, passion, and unlikely triumph.

Lily Topples The World

2021

David Blaine: Ascension poster
6.0

David Blaine will redefine magic once again for an unprecedented live event at a time when the world could use a positive distraction.

David Blaine: Ascension

2020

The Light Bulb Conspiracy poster
7.6

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.

The Light Bulb Conspiracy

2010

There's Nothing You Can Do poster
6.0

The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban maladies.

There's Nothing You Can Do

2008

Vegan 2018 poster
9.5

Covers the ever growing vegan movement and how it's best for the animals, human health, and the planet.

Vegan 2018

2018

Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm poster
NR

A dramatic minute-by-minute account of the superstorm that brought New York State to its knees. Using satellite imagery, CGI mapping and the powerful personal testimony of those who lived through it, this is a forensic analysis of the meteorological, engineering and human devastation wreaked by Sandy.

Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm

2012

DO HARD THINGS poster
NR

thank you Brooks

DO HARD THINGS

2024

Nutsy's poster
NR

Tom Sachs: Nutsy's (2001–2003) is a sprawling, dystopian-utopian art installation that features a series of short, industrial-style movies. These films explore consumer culture and the intersection of modernism and commercialism, featuring everything from functional DIY McDonald's stations to remote-controlled car races.

Nutsy's

2003

My Kid And Me poster
NR

A travel documentary about Casey and his son, Owen.

My Kid And Me

2014

iPod's Dirty Secret poster
NR

A critique on Apple for not having a battery replacement program for the iPod.

iPod's Dirty Secret

2003

My Girlfriend Candice poster
NR

A movie about Casey's girlfriend, Candice.

My Girlfriend Candice

2013

Behind the camera

Daddy Longlegs poster
6.6

After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.

Daddy Longlegs

2010

No artwork available
NR

When Casey Neistat first sat down to interview YouTube sensation, David Dobrik, neither of them knew they were about to capture one of the most precipitous rise and falls in the history of the internet... in real-time. David, protected by the belief that he’s just a kid with a camera, has constantly assumed risks. Even as a story of a sexual assault breaks, he’s busy covering up a near-lethal accident caught on film, intended to be entertainment. In the real world, these kinds of actions have life-changing consequences, but in the gold rush ecosystem of Social Media influence, the audience decides who succeeds, and who gets banished forever.

Under the Influence

2022

No artwork available
NR

When Casey Neistat first sat down to interview YouTube sensation, David Dobrik, neither of them knew they were about to capture one of the most precipitous rise and falls in the history of the internet... in real-time. David, protected by the belief that he’s just a kid with a camera, has constantly assumed risks. Even as a story of a sexual assault breaks, he’s busy covering up a near-lethal accident caught on film, intended to be entertainment. In the real world, these kinds of actions have life-changing consequences, but in the gold rush ecosystem of Social Media influence, the audience decides who succeeds, and who gets banished forever.

Under the Influence

2022

DO HARD THINGS poster
NR

thank you Brooks

DO HARD THINGS

2024

DO HARD THINGS poster
NR

thank you Brooks

DO HARD THINGS

2024

Nutsy's poster
NR

Tom Sachs: Nutsy's (2001–2003) is a sprawling, dystopian-utopian art installation that features a series of short, industrial-style movies. These films explore consumer culture and the intersection of modernism and commercialism, featuring everything from functional DIY McDonald's stations to remote-controlled car races.

Nutsy's

2003

Facebook Movie poster
NR

A movie about Facebook. Made this after reading about facebook everyday in the news. A lot of what was said seemed like it would make more sense if explained in a little movie... so that's that.

Facebook Movie

2010

My Kid And Me poster
NR

A travel documentary about Casey and his son, Owen.

My Kid And Me

2014

iPod's Dirty Secret poster
NR

A critique on Apple for not having a battery replacement program for the iPod.

iPod's Dirty Secret

2003

My Girlfriend Candice poster
NR

A movie about Casey's girlfriend, Candice.

My Girlfriend Candice

2013

Shawn Mendes: Artist Spotlight Stories poster
8.5

Shawn Mendes has teamed up with YouTube Music to share a part of his emotional journey to stardom in the latest YouTube Artist Spotlight Story. The short film focuses on the 20-year-old musician's life leading up to the release of his self-titled third studio album, Shawn Mendes, in May of this year.

Shawn Mendes: Artist Spotlight Stories

2018

No artwork available
NR

Short movie about life I guess

Life Explained in 27 Seconds

2015