Nico B.
Nico B is a Dutch film director and filmmaker known for his 1998 horror production Pig, being the last work of acclaimed singer/songwriter Rozz Williams before his death a few months later. Pig premiered at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles and went on to play at international film festivals around the world including the highly regarded Rotterdam Film Festival. A follow up, 1334, was made in 2011. In 2004, he wrote, produced, and directed the biographical film Bettie Page: Dark Angel. Bettie Page: Dark Angel premiered at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. Between 2005-2008 he wrote, produced, and directed the film SIN.
He is also the founder and owner of the infamous Cultvideotheek in Amsterdam and of Cult Epics, a distributor of cult movies in the genres arthouse, horror and erotica, specialized in the work of Walerian Borowczyk, Tinto Brass, Jean Genet, Fernando Arrabal, Rene Daalder, Abel Ferrara, Radley Metzger, Irving Klaw, and Bettie Page. The Cult Epics releases Viva la Muerte, In a Glass Cage, School of the Holy Beast, and The Beast were distributed theatrically in the US.
Various titles of the Cult Epics catalog were screened at the American Cinematheque, the Lincoln Center Film Society and other art film institutions. A retrospective of Cult Epics releases was shown at Harvard University in 2011.