Directing
Nick Archer
Nick Archer is an award-winning writer and director known for his strong visual style and unusual method of storytelling. He was born in Leicester in 1983, and later moved to Nottingham. In 2000 he studied Media at South Nottingham College in Clifton where he became passionate about film. In 2002 he co-founded a small film production group called OTT Productions and spent the next 12 years making various lo-budget shorts and a feature. During this time he moved into photography of various types, and with ongoing work as a commercial photographer and music video director. Throughout this time he has worked hard to develop a personal style of story telling, cinematography and direction. At the beginning of 2014 OTT Productions was closed and he co-founded a group of filmmakers and actors called Coalescent Films. With Coalescent Films Nick has produced a number of short films, some small features and a series, including popular shorts such as 'Car Park' and 'Gemini', and the multi-award-winning 'Arabesque'.
Acting credits
NRDetectives David Panic and James Attack do some detecting.
Panic Attack
2004
NRA homicidal cuddly bear terrorises a young couple upon moving into a haunted house.
Still Night
2003
NRA Kevin Woodhead Film
Clones
2004
NRA short film that was made in 24 hours for a competition in association with Cineworld and Brit Films in Nottingham. It is about an evil cuddly bear who unleashes it's furry fury upon several poor students. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn09pOcoYMI Director's Cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lvVycsjF_U
Still Night 3: Paws of Death
2007
NRGary the Grass moves into a new house. His new haunted house. His new haunted by a homicidal cuddly bear house. Things get evil and a heck of a lot cute.
Still Night 2: Fresh Meat
2005
NRA losing entry in the 2010 Empire Done in 60 seconds competition. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZtXFR3cuIc (in 87 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tma-HPSQmmM
Saw (in 60 seconds)
2010
Behind the camera
NRTwo friends play squash. Things get... competitive.
Squashed
2005
NRTwo friends play squash. Things get... competitive.
Squashed
2005
NRLoner Jared is lost in a bleak world of violence, drugs and regret, until a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman forces him to confront his dark past. But the real question is, will she be is salvation, or his damnation?
Broken
2014
NRLoner Jared is lost in a bleak world of violence, drugs and regret, until a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman forces him to confront his dark past. But the real question is, will she be is salvation, or his damnation?
Broken
2014
NROTT Productions go back for more Milton Keynes comic con action!
Collectormania 7
2005
NRDetectives David Panic and James Attack do some detecting.
Panic Attack
2004
NRDetectives David Panic and James Attack do some detecting.
Panic Attack
2004
NRA homicidal cuddly bear terrorises a young couple upon moving into a haunted house.
Still Night
2003
NRA homicidal cuddly bear terrorises a young couple upon moving into a haunted house.
Still Night
2003
NROTT Productions travel to Milton Keynes for the sixth edition of Collectormania!
Collectormania 6
2004
NRA losing entry in the 2011 Empire Done in 60 seconds competition. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEkV4keIA00
The Shining (in 60 seconds)
2011
NRA Kevin Woodhead Film
Clones
2004
NRDawn and the Dead was made for the second Britfilms 24 Hour film Challenge in Nottingham. It contains a woman called Dawn. And zombies. Watch on Nottingham OTT youtube channel.
Dawn and the Dead
2008
NRDawn and the Dead was made for the second Britfilms 24 Hour film Challenge in Nottingham. It contains a woman called Dawn. And zombies. Watch on Nottingham OTT youtube channel.
Dawn and the Dead
2008
NRA short film that was made in 24 hours for a competition in association with Cineworld and Brit Films in Nottingham. It is about an evil cuddly bear who unleashes it's furry fury upon several poor students. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn09pOcoYMI Director's Cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lvVycsjF_U
Still Night 3: Paws of Death
2007
NROTT Productions go in a search for David Dickinson.
The Hunt for Bargain Hunt
2004
NRDawn and the Dead is a low budget epic about a young woman called Dawn, who is thrust into a zombie apocalypse. She is, to her surprise, a natural at shooting zombie's heads off. It might just be the non-zombies that pose the biggest threat.
Dawn and the Dead
2010
NRDawn and the Dead is a low budget epic about a young woman called Dawn, who is thrust into a zombie apocalypse. She is, to her surprise, a natural at shooting zombie's heads off. It might just be the non-zombies that pose the biggest threat.
Dawn and the Dead
2010
NRDawn and the Dead is a low budget epic about a young woman called Dawn, who is thrust into a zombie apocalypse. She is, to her surprise, a natural at shooting zombie's heads off. It might just be the non-zombies that pose the biggest threat.
Dawn and the Dead
2010
NRSet on the day of the General Election 2015, twelve people - a cross-section of British culture - voice their own opinions in this fast moving political satire.
Withdrawing in Disgust
2015
NRFour friends move into new student accommodation. With a ghost?
The Attention-Seeking Ghost
2008
NRA losing entry in the 2010 Empire Done in 60 seconds competition. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZtXFR3cuIc (in 87 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tma-HPSQmmM
Saw (in 60 seconds)
2010
NRTwo sisters find themselves in conflict after one cures the others son of cancer, only to find that this is only the beginning.
Gemini
2015
NRTwo sisters find themselves in conflict after one cures the others son of cancer, only to find that this is only the beginning.
Gemini
2015