Filmmaker’s Biography

Writer/Director Nick Willing has a very varied filmography. Although he is perhaps best known for his popular fantasy TV shows, he’s also made theatrically released movies, thrillers, social realist dramas, and more recently, feature documentaries. The one common thread is his fascination with innovative storytelling. In SECRETS & STORIES, Nick spent a year interviewing and filming his mother, the painter Paula Rego, to better understand her and her work and discovered that she has kept major secrets about her life from him, secrets that helped explain much of her life and his. The experience was do affecting that it’s hugely developed Nick’s interest in the intimate and insightful power of documentary. The film won both the Grierson and RTS awards for best Arts program and encouraged him to stay in the media to make UNSTOPPABLE: Sean Scully & the Art of Everything, an equally probing and revelatory film about the outspoken abstract painter.