Nathan Hasz was born in Phoenix, Arizona after his mother relocated from Colorado. He started making short films with friends and siblings after he moved to New York at 7 years old. Using software to paint lightsabers on video frames or using simple DAWs like Garageband and Fruity Loops to make music compositions became sacred outlets of expression early. Some works were demonstrably better than others, and none of them very serious, but the love of the craft kept him artistic through college. His parents did not want him to apply to art schools.
At the top of year one at Northeastern University and before diving deep a two year hiatus studying computer engineering, he shot a short film with his family over two days. That short played at NEU’s “Campus MovieFest” the next year. His roommates Joel and Jeremy introduced him to Ableton, which he worked diligently to learn during any free time not spent DJing. After growing reticent of full-time work in a basement engineering lab post-grad with a CE degree, he transferred to Georgetown to graduate with a BSBA in Intl. Business and Political Economy.
Since moving back to New York, he’s worked at Gigantic Studios from Intern to CEO. In 2019, he received a Primetime Emmy nomination in Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming as the Supervising Sound Editor of Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. Nathan is an Active Member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
From 2020, Nathan began to raise funding for several short films culminating in 2024 with Schwarzmoll which screened at two US-based Oscar qualifying festivals named Woodstock FF and St. Louis Intl. FF, as well as two renowned German festivals Intle. Hofer Filmtage and FF Max Ophuels Preis.
