Nicholas McCallum

Nick McCallum has extensive experience designing Feature Films, Television Drama Series and Theatre Productions across Australia and throughout the world; working in China, Poland, Great Britain, France, Japan, Tahiti, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. He has been involved in over 50 productions.To date Nick has designed three action-adventure 3D Feature Films - James Cameron's SANCTUM 3D starring Richard Roxburgh and Ioan Gruffudd; NEST 3D starring Li Bing Bing, Kellan Lutz and Kelsey Grammar and BAIT 3D starring Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vincent, Phoebe Tonkin and Julian McMahon.SANCTUM, produced by James Cameron (TITANIC, AVATAR), is set entirely in a flooding cave environment built in the studios on the Gold Coast, Queensland. NEST is set in an underground Chinese Palace temple complex totally infested with deadly funnel web spiders. BAIT has a tsunami hitting the east coast of Australia and trapping a pack of man-eating tiger sharks in a flooded supermarket complex.Other Feature Film Production Design credits include THE BLACK BALLOON starring Toni Collette, KOKODA, GETTIN' SQUARE starring Sam Worthington, Timothy Spall and David Wenham, THE CLINIC, SUBDIVISION with Gary Sweet, Steve Bisley and Bruce Spence, THE NUGGET starring Eric Bana, THE GODDESS OF 1967 with Rose Byrne and IN A SAVAGE LAND starring Rufus Sewell and Martin Donovan.Television Production Designs include ANSWERED BY FIRE with David Wenham, THE POTATO FACTORY, starring Ben Cross and Lisa McCune and the successful SPELLBINDER series, starring Ryan Kwanten; shot throughout Poland and China.Theatre design credits include Australia's Entertainment Centre tour of GREASE, THE ARENA SPECTACULAR with John Farnham, Craig McLachlan, Natalie Bassingthwaighte & Magda Szubanski.Nick's Theatre acting credits with the Chichester Festival Theatre company include CYRANO DE BERGERAC starring Keith Michell and Christopher Cazanove and directed by Jose Ferrer, Ibsen's ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE with Donald Sinden and directed by Patrick Garland MADE IN HEAVEN starring Patrick Macnee and Michael Bates and OTHELLO starring Topol and Keith Michell.Nick has twice been nominated for Australia's top film award, the AFI AWARD for Best Production Design for a Feature Film - (In a Savage Land & Getting' Square) and twice nominated for Inside Film IF Award for Best Production Design for a Feature Film - (Kokoda &The Black Balloon).Nick has worked throughout Asia and China since 1988 and has several official treaty co-production Feature Films in development - the sci-if action adventure TIME WALKERS 3D; crime thriller IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS; rock musical NEW WORLD 3D; action adventure HELLFIGHTERS 3D and the comedy action romance - GOOD LUCK WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.Nick is company director of NJM WORLDWIDE and SOUTHERN LIGHT GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT, both film production companies based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.Nick is also an honorary Ambassador for ChinaGoAbroad .ChinaGoAbroad (CGA) was founded by TransAsia Lawyers CEO Jesse TH Chang, and the China Overseas Development Association under the National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC), which is in charge of cross-border transactions. CGA comprises of two parts: an online information platform and an offline consultancy. To date, it has attracted around 8,000 members, approximately 40% of which are Chinese. Chinese members range from large state-owned entities to well-respected SMEs and high-net worth individuals. International members are leading law firms and other service providers, national investment promotion agencies and well-known multinationals. Show less «