Joseph Nizeti
Directing
Biography
Joseph Nizeti is an AACTA award-winning and ADG-nominated director, writer, producer and composer. Combining a background in music with a lifelong love of film, Joseph has brought a unique creative perspective to various acclaimed projects across the Australian film & music industries. Joseph’s experience in writing and post-production has made him an insightful collaborator across the storytelling process, with lecturing engagements at AIDC and AFTRS Sydney, and script editing/story consultancy engagements with Jungle Entertainment, Wildbear Entertainment, Stranger Than Fiction Films and other independent productions around Australia. As a composer, recording producer and musicologist, Joseph has an accomplished background in classical and film music and music for installations and immersive experiences. Since 2013, Joseph has collaborated frequently as composer and producer with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and violinist Richard Tognetti AO, in addition to international touring engagements with the ACO as a keyboardist, percussionist and guitarist. Joseph received a 2021-2022 Screen Australia ‘Enterprise People’ Industry development grant recognising emerging creatives, supporting his career as a writer/director.
Known For
A group of Sydney-based, Pacific Islander kids start recording drill raps to avoid a life of crime. Two years into their meteoric rise, a police task force shuts down their sold-out national tour due to concerns that the group's music will incite violence.
ONEFOUR: Against All Odds
When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile hermit who was the last person to see his friend alive. As Dan gets closer to the truth, he must confront his own personal demons and he discovers that hope can be found in unlikely places.
The Rooster
The story of George Martin’s AIR Studios Montserrat and the island that changed music forever.
Under the Volcano
A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe, guided by a filmmaker’s immersive practical experiments that transcend into a deeply hypnotic audio-visual experience of awe and human connection to the natural world.
Phenomena
A cinematic and musical odyssey that explores the remarkable relationship between humans and rivers. Throughout history, rivers have shaped our landscapes and our journeys; flowed through our cultures and dreams. RIVER takes its audience on a journey through space and time; spanning six continents, and drawing on extraordinary contemporary cinematography, including satellite filming, the film shows rivers on scales and from perspectives never seen before. Its union of image, music and sparse, the poetic script will create a film that is both dream-like and powerful, honouring the wildness of rivers but also recognizes their vulnerability.
River
Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast, hidden network that we are only just beginning to understand. Out of sight, between the world of plants and animals, another world exists—the kingdom of fungi.
Fungi: The Web of Life
Guided by four musicians from the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Anatomy of String Quartet takes audiences on an intimate journey through the rehearsal and performance of an iconic piece of string music.
Anatomy of a String Quartet
An ex-ballerina, unhinged by her change in circumstances, finds a new obsession in the pursuit of cleanliness.