UTA Signs ‘Terror And Glory: 1945’ Filmmaker Erik Nelson & His Production Company Creative Differences
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed award-winning filmmaker Erik Nelson (Terror and Glory: 1945) and his production company Creative Differences for worldwide representation in all areas.Nelson is an IDA Award winner who most recently directed and produced the Discovery+ feature documentary Terror and Glory: 1945, which focused on the final months of World War II and its consequences.
He previously wrote, directed and produced the World War II documentary The Cold Blue for HBO Max—also helming A Gray State, a prescient true-crime look at the culture of conspiracy, released in 2017.
All three films hold a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Nelson is otherwise best known for his collaborations with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog.
The duo produced four films together including the Oscar-nominated Encounters at the End of the World, Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Into The Abyss, with Herzog narrating Nelson’s animated feature Dinotasia and exec producing A Gray State.Nelson earned his first IDA Award for Best Limited Series in 2012, for the docuseries On Death Row, which he produced.
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