Nicholas Ma
About
Nicholas Ma is an award-winning writer, director and producer based in New York City. He produced WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, a documentary on Fred Rogers, which became the all-time highest grossing bio-documentary. This past year, he directed SUITE NO. 1 PRELUDE, which screened at the New York Film Festival. His most recent feature script, MABEL, was awarded the Sloan Prize and invited to the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab. He is currently in development on several other documentary projects with Tremolo and Motto Pictures. He received his M.F.A. from Tisch grad Film. Prior to his career in film, he led global economic policy for then-Senator John Kerry on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, after working at McKinsey & Company in New York and Shanghai. He is a graduate of Harvard College.
Mabel
No one at her new school gets Callie, an awkward kid whose one friend, Mabel, is a potted plant -- except Ms. Garrett, the charismatic science teacher who introduces her to the controversial world of “plant intelligence.” Desperate to impress her teacher, Callie starts building a secret greenhouse laboratory in her backyard, but Callie’s obsession threatens her first real connection with another kid.