Nick Childers is an Emmy award-winning multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He's the son of a Chilean immigrant and a blue-collar Appalachian. Nick has filmed and produced documentaries, news videos, podcasts, and photo assignments for outlets like The Washington Post, The Guardian, NBC News, VICE News, CNN, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Topic, The Wall Street Journal, BRIC TV, Village Voice, PublicSource, Postindustrial, and is an alumnus of Pratt Institute, Missouri Photo Workshop, UnionDocs, Pittsburgh Filmmaker's Flight School Fellowship, and CAPA Pittsburgh. Nick has covered stories like the war in Ukraine, the Tree of Life shooting, labor in the Rust Belt and Appalachia, home birth during COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests in Pittsburgh, abuse within the Catholic Church, and Caribbean pirate FM radio in Brooklyn. He's the Executive Director and Founder of Backyard Docs and the Lead Organizer of The Video Consortium Pittsburgh hub.

Nick is based in Pittsburgh and works independently as a freelance multimedia journalist, cinematographer, licensed drone pilot, director, producer, and multimedia editor for various editorial and commercial clients. He owns a Sony Fx6 kit and is HEFAT-certified. He can quickly respond to assignments and filming requests in the surrounding Rust Belt & Appalachia tri-state regions.

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