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Steve "Nemi" Nemsick is an award winning documentary filmmaker who has filmed an extremely wide array of people, including but not limited to - refugees, bikers, skaters, bands, felons, heroes, drinkers, survivors, leaders, healers and the down trodden. With extensive travels in the US and abroad, Nemi is capable of gaining the trust and comfort of most anyone. With Nemi, a story that is told in a way that is indicative of the subject itself.
Ugo: An Artist at War is a film I made about my neighbors, it premiered at the San Diego FF in October ‘25.
On D-Day Ugo got stuck between the German and American forces, jumped into a crater and waited. When nobody caught up with him, Ugo sketched the only drawings from Omaha Beach that brutal morning of the assault. This film uncovers that journey and many other things that were kept from Ugo’s wife Maxine until after he died. It’s only then that she learns about another side of the man she loved for 39 years.
Ugo was a WW2 hero who later became a reclusive family man and teacher and quietly became a master painter. Many themes are presented here including PTSD, the Depression, WW2, survivors guilt, mid century painters like Fernand Léger, healing, love, romance and intrigue.
“You will NEVER see a movie quite like this in your life. So if you love motorcycles, skateboarding, guns, chickens, art, aliens, conspiracy theories, insanity, and odd combinations of headgear…then GO SEE THIS MOVIE!” Iron Horse Magazine
“…and editor Steve Nemsick does an incredible job of revealing all sides of Jason, from Mormon to gun nut to the punk rock chicken farmer who just happens to be one of the greatest skaters of all time…” - Gearhead Magazine
Much Ado In Mostar
A feature made out of pocket and completed by Nemsick soup to nuts.
After receiving a call out of the blue from a New York producer, Nemi was in Bosnia two weeks later filming a theatre production consisting of 50 people for 6 weeks in the Balkans, primarily in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The challenges included figuring out what was each persons religion/background, what was their childhood war experience, what character were they in the play, who of these many people would be the lead characters in the film, translating Shakespeare from Serbo-Croatian, as well as learning about the history of the region, the Bosnian war and the current social / religious / geo / political divides and wounds that persist.
Of course none of that happens without quickly earning their trust.
With that trust came friendship.
Much Ado In Mostar is what few films about Bosnia are, hopeful.
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