Nick Batzias has sixteen years of history in the Australian film industry within acquisition, distribution and production experience. He is the founder of Good Thing Productions after having worked for more than 15 years with Madman Entertainment. At Good Thing, Batzias focuses on the production of both narrative and factual projects for film and television. Before founding Good Time, he had worked on the release of more than 500 feature and documentary films in various forms. He has played a significant role in assessing scripts, treatments and rough cuts with a view to acquiring the films for distribution in Australia and New Zealand. He has produced a range of critically acclaimed and award-winning films, both narrative and documentary. Most recently Nick produced feature documentaries from Australia and New Zealand including All for One , Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy and Spookers, A Month of Sundays starring Anthony LaPaglia all in 2017, and Damon Gameau’s That Sugar Film (2014), which is the highest-grossing non-IMAX Australian documentary of all time. He won an AACTA Award for that film and produced Gameau’s follow-up, 2040, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. He received his first APSA nomination for The Australian Dream about the Adam Goodes race saga in Australian football.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
