Nicholas Shumaker is a Georgetown graduate and began his career working with Emmy Award-winning journalist Mike Cerre on a State Department-funded journalist exchange between the United States and the Middle East. Shumaker then moved to Cuba with Mike Cahill and Brit Marling to produce the award-winning documentary Boxers And Ballerinas. While previously an executive at the film-finance fund White Buffalo Entertainment, he was instrumental in the development, production, and sales strategies of the 2010 Oscar nominated Which Way Home; Theater Of War which had it’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008 and could be seen on Sundance Channel, Lovely, Still which stars Academy Award winners Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, and the Tribeca Film Festival award winner Racing Dreams, which was directed by Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry.

Shumaker currently divides his time between Paris and New York City, working as an executive with the French company Memento Films International.