Joseph Nizeti is an AACTA award-winning and ADG-nominated director, writer, producer and composer. Combining a background in music with a life-long love of film, Joseph has brought a unique creative perspective to a range of acclaimed projects across the Australian film & music industries.

Joseph is the co-director/co-writer of award-winning feature documentary River (2021), writer/director of the Björk-narrated IMAX documentary Fungi: The Web of Life (2023), co-writer of Netflix’s ONEFOUR: Against All Odds (2023), writer/director/composer of TV documentary Anatomy of a String Quartet (2022) and co-producer of science documentary series Phenomena (2021). Beginning in late-2022, Joseph founded new production company Cosmic Breakfast to service a growing slate of unique documentary and scripted projects. Cosmic Breakfast’s first production, Chasing the Last Giants, is a feature documentary following the campaign to protect lutriwita/Tasmania’s native giant trees from deforestation.

Joseph’s experience in writing and post-production have made him an insightful collaborator across the storytelling process, with lecturing engagements at AIDC and AFTRS Sydney, and script editing / story consultancy engagements with Jungle Entertainment, Wildbear Entertainment, Stranger Than Fiction Films and other independent productions around Australia.