Nik Sexton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nicholas Carlo Herbert Sexton March 1980 (age 45) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Notable work | |
Nicholas Carlo Herbert Sexton (born March 1980 [1] ) is a Canadian film and television director from Newfoundland and Labrador. [2] His debut feature film How to Be Deadly was released in 2014. [3]
The son of producer Mary Sexton and the nephew of Tommy Sexton, [2] Sexton began his career making short comedy videos for YouTube about "Donnie Dumphy", a skateboarder who would become the central character in How to Be Deadly. [4] In 2012, he released a short film version of How to Be Deadly, before entering production on the feature version in 2013. [5] The film won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Feature Film at the 16th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2015, [6] and Sexton was also nominated for Best Direction in a Feature Film.
Sexton subsequently worked principally in television, with direction and production credits on Rick Mercer Report , This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Good People . With Mark Sakamoto and Tom Stanley, he was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Writing in a Factual Program or Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021 for Good People. [7]
In 2021 Sexton and his mother collaborated on Me, Mom & Covid, a documentary film about Mary's mother and Nik's grandmother Sara Sexton, which centred on Sara's death of COVID-19 after having devoted her life to the care of her mentally disabled daughter Edwina and to HIV/AIDS activism following Tommy's death in 1993. [2]
His second feature film, Skeet , premiered at the 2024 Atlantic International Film Festival. [8]