Nathan Mizzi is a filmmaker, creative director, and producer from Melbourne, Australia, who made the arguably questionable decision to swap the world's most liveable city for Los Angeles. After a decade plus, he's still here, which either says a lot about the weather or the work.
Nathan founded Little Ripper Studios because he believed there was a better way to run a production company; one where the person with the creative vision is also the person on set, in the edit, and on the phone with the client. No middlemen, no cutting corners, no "we'll fix it in post" moments that everyone pretends didn't happen. Before that, he spent three years coordinating VFX pipelines at FuseFX across productions for Apple TV+, Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, and FX, learning exactly how the big end of the industry works, and what smaller teams can do better.
These days, he runs Little Ripper while also serving as Senior Art Director at Mother Robot, a digital marketing agency, overseeing creative production for clients including RCA. He directs, produces, shoots, edits, builds sets, and occasionally moves furniture on location when the budget calls for it. The goal is always the same: make something worth watching.