Nick Donnelly

Nicholas James Donnelly (born 17 May 1988) is a British filmmaker and music video producer. Donnelly first gained national exposure when directing/producing the music video Game Over Female Takeover, an independent release that featured many of the leading female urban artists in England on one video. These artists included Lady leshurr, Mz Bratt, Ruff Diamondz, Cherri Voncelle, and Amplify Dot The video served as the official remix to the record "Game Over".

In 2011, Nick produced the two part music video ‘Bad Boys Remix', a collaboration with rap artist Swiss from the So Solid Crew. Bad Boys Remix 1 featured Blak Twang, Klashnekoff, Akala (rapper) among others from the late 2000 UK hip-hop scene, while Bad Boys Remix 2 featured Charlie Sloth, Krept and Konan and others.

In October 2011, Nick teamed with Ruff Ryders Entertainment to produce the music video Love Through The Speakers for battle rapper Murda Mook - the first music video from his mixtape 401k that was hosted by DJ Khaled and featured appearances from Akon, Jadakiss and Lil' Kim.

Nick's first film God Save The Queen was released in December 2015 and featured Motown artist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Martha Reeves, as well as British songwriter Carla Marie Williams who wrote the records Runnin' and Freedom for Beyoncé. In 2018 Spotify premiered a documentary, at their London headquarters, directed and filmed by Nick Donnelly that was about Carla's process making music for herself. The unreleased documentary featured scenes at Abbey Road Studios and with Lily Allen at her studios.

Jo Harman's music video The Reformation is directed by Nick, as is the Hannah Williams & The Affirmations video Late Nights & Heartbreak that was sampled by Jay-Z on the title track to his Grammy-nominated record 4:44 (album). Nick worked again with Hannah Williams & The Affirmations for the title track to their 2019 album '50 Foot Woman'. The music video to 50 Foot Woman was premiered by El País and FIP (radio station)

In July 2019, Nick Donnelly's production company Urban Kingdom revealed 'Generation W' a book which features 100 British women writing about living through 100 years since women began to receive the vote in the UK. Women writing for the book include Olympic champion Sally Gunnell, Carol M. Black, Averil Mansfield, Lily Cole, Susie Wolff and many more.

In November 2019 Nick Donnelly worked with UK rap artist Blue Meth and US Hip-hop artist Method Man from Wu-Tang Clan on the music video 'Winnebago'. In February 2020 Nick Donnelly released the music video 'What Ya Tellin Me' with Blue Meth which premiered on Worldstar.

In September 2020 Nick Donnelly's Urban Kingdom launched 'Generation Worldwide' which featured over 50 female led artists from over 20 countries performing musical performances during the global Coronavirus lockdowns in association with the 'Generation W' book. Musicians performing for the Urban Kingdom exclusive festival include Karen Harding, Girli, Aubrey Logan, Kalben and more. Speaking to The Courier (Newcastle University newspaper) Nick Donnelly said 'The idea for Generation Worldwide was reactionary... It was one of these ideas so crazy it might just work, but so crazy you would never even dream of writing it down in plan... Knowing that the music industry was broken this year, and knowing that on average only 19% of performers at festivals are women, we took this opportunity to create a new experience.'

Nick Donnelly has also filmed and produced exclusive video interviews with Lonnie Liston Smith, Freddie Gibbs and Suzi Quatro which appear on the site Urban Kingdom.