Founder-led, partner-supported, and crew-scalable. Next World pairs a producer-director who takes an idea from concept to deck to shoot to post to pitch with a strategic producing partner and a deep bench of specialists — so we move like a nimble team, or scale into a full studio operation.
Nick is the founder and operator — a producer-director who can carry an idea from concept to deck to shoot to post to pitch without losing the thread. He started Next World in 2009 to build something brands could actually own: their own channel and their own audience, not a one-off ad that disappears the second it stops running.
Twenty years in, he still runs the gear and the room. He's the aerial director on ABC's The Bachelor, shot the aerials on Tyler Perry features and a prime-time Gordon Ramsay series for FOX, and flies as an FAA Part 107 pilot and member of Local 600 and Local 700. He co-owns one of the top aerial outfits in Los Angeles.
His documentary on Ray Manzarek and The Doors, Break on Thru, took Best Feature at Asbury Park. Along the way he's worked with Michael Jordan, Tom Hanks, Jimmy Fallon, Jessica Alba, Kevin Smith, Chris Harrison and Criss Angel — on projects for Sony, FOX, ABC, CBS, MTV, History, A&E, the Science Channel, Tyler Perry Studios, Nike, ITV, Porsche, the NBA, Foot Locker and CW.
From early cinematography logistics on SpaceX Dragon recoveries to Sony's global F55/F65 rollout to the screens at Madison Square Garden, Nick has built Next World into a crew that doesn't get boxed into one specialty. They are the specialty.
Stacey is the strategic producer and partner who turns founder-led muscle into a studio — bringing large-project discipline, brand credibility, and the kind of client trust that earns the repeat call.
She came up in television on shows like CBS's Ghost Whisperer, ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives before unscripted and brand work became her world. She's the one who makes the impossible happen on schedule and on budget — and over 15+ years she's produced for Home Depot, Walmart, Garmin and Toys R Us, among many others. She also teaches the next generation as an adjunct instructor at the Georgia Film Academy.
At Next World, Stacey and Nick have partnered on projects for Toys R Us, Babies R Us, WHP Global, Home Depot, FIFA and Coca-Cola — with several more in the works. As Creative Partner, she turns big, ambitious ideas into finished work clients actually get excited about.
When she's not building the next one, you'll find her at the barn with her horses or with family.
Next World scales from a tight, founder-led core to a full crew of trusted specialists — assembled to fit the job, never to inflate the invoice. We bring in the right people, by role, for what the work actually needs.