Nicholas Payne Santos is a thirty-one-year-old filmmaker based out of Brooklyn, NY. Santos was born and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He is of Cape Verdean and German descent. Nicholas received his MFA in Film with a concentration in Creative Producing at Columbia University School of the Arts in 2019. He attended undergraduate studies at Ithaca College, where he graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Cinema & Photography.