Joseph Nizeti

Joseph Nizeti is a director, writer, producer and composer working across the Australian film & music industries. Joseph is the co-director/co-writer of feature documentary River (2021), co-producer of science documentary series Phenomena (2021) and director/co-writer of the forthcoming IMAX documentary film The Secret World of Fungi. Since collaborating with Jennifer Peedom on Mountain (2017), Joseph has served as development producer across Jen's documentary and drama slate with Stranger Than Fiction. Joseph's experience in writing and post-production have made him an insightful collaborator across the storytelling process, with lecturing engagements at AIDC and AFTRS Sydney and story consultancy engagements with Jungle Entertainment and Wildbear Entertainment. As a composer, recording producer and musicologist, Joseph has an accomplished background across classical and film music. 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 is the recipient of a 2021-2023 Screen Australia 'Enterprise People' Industry development grant recognising emerging creatives, in support of his career as a writer/director.