William Nix is the CEO of Creative Projects Group® and a Producer with extensive experience in the entertainment, media, sports, and intellectual property fields. He is a founding member and Co-Executive Director of the SIE Society, and a Partner in the social and environmental impact investment firm of LOHAS. Will is a member of the Producer’s Council of the PGA. He is also a lifetime voting-member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as well as a member of the Television and Recording Academies.
His production work involves both traditional media and multiple content delivery platforms, technologies and genres. With Producer Salma Hayek, he served as Executive Producer of an animated feature film, distributed by Universal and Netflix, based on Kahlil Gibran’s iconic work, The Prophet. Among its ten award nominations were three Annie Nominations and inclusion in the Oscars Animated Feature Film Nomination ShortList. Drawing upon his substantial international background, his film Firedancer was the first Afghanistan submission for Academy Awards consideration.
William’s recent projects include two documentary features: Power, about a billion peoples’ lack of access to the global and local energy systems, and a historical overview of an important era of American musical and cultural history entitled This is Ragtime: The Birth of American Music. He is also producing a dramatic biographical limited series entitled Gibran: Beyond Borders, a theatrical stage musical entitled Broken Wings, based on Kahlil Gibran’s first novel, one entitled Trailblazers and the other, An Accidental Cuban. He and his partners are also developing projects to expand a family of racing brands, into an animated/live-action film, television video game, and multimedia entertainment franchise. He is currently developing a multicultural, multi-platform television series and immersive media experience entitled TRIBE-X WORLD, with Nikon Ambassador and acclaimed photographer, author and artist, Matthew Jordan Smith.
He is currently an Advisory Board member of Journeys in Film, a non-profit organization that develops and produces innovative curriculum, discussion guide and other educational materials for teachers/students to use in order to support the reach, understanding and legacy of films and television programs. In addition, he is an Advisory Board member of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society, the Global Arts Corps, Producers Without Borders.