Nicholas Ma

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Nicholas Ma
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Nicholas Ma (born circa 1983) is a film director and producer who is best known for producing the 2018 award-winning documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?. [1]

He was born around 1983 to Yo-Yo Ma and Jill Hornor. [1] [2] [3] He has one sibling, Emily Ma who was born around 1985. [2] [3] Nicholas Ma attended Harvard University and graduated in 2005. [4] He went on to work at the McKinsey & Company at both their New York City and Shanghai locations. He also worked with Senator John Kerry on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee focusing on global economic policy. [5] In 2013, he left McKinsey & Company. [6] He later went back to school and attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Television in 2017. [6] [7] Ma, alongside Morgan Neville and Caryn Capotosto, produced Morgan Neville's 2018 award-winning documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?. [1] [8] Ma and Neville had interacted before on Neville's 2015 documentary The Music of Strangers, which was about the Silk Road Ensemble formed by Ma's father. [9]

In 2019, Ma's 15 minute documentary short SUITE NO. 1, PRELUDE was shown at DOCNYC, which focused on his father's re-recording of the first cello piece he learned. [10] [11] Also in 2019, Ma's first feature film Mabel won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award of $100,000 and was also supported by the Tribeca Film Institutes' Sloan Filmmaker Fund. [11] [12] Mabel focuses on a young child's friendship with a potted plant and her teacher who introduced her to botany. [11] Mabel was co-written with Joy Goodwin. [11] Actors such as Christine Ko, Judy Greer, and Lexi Perkel are all slated to star in Mabel. [13] [14] In 2022, Ma worked with Alison Klayman on the documentary Unfinished Business, which focused on the New York Liberty women's basketball team and the WNBA. [15] [16] Unfinished Business was shown at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. [16]

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  10. ↑ "SUITE NO. 1, PRELUDE". DOC NYC. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
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