Nick Doob is the co-director of  “Fox vs. Franken” from THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROJECT. He has been making films since the early 70′s, acting as director, cinematographer, and editor on numerous award-winning films, including three which were nominated for Academy Awards ^®, and “From Mao to Mozart” which won Best Documentary Feature in 1981.  Doob has received six grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, including three individual filmmaking grants and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures.

He recently co-directed with DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus Down from the Mountain, and in 2002 won an Emmy ^® as a producer on “American High,” the acclaimed verité TV series.  He has made films for American Masters, the Oxygen Network and Carnegie Hall Productions.  He has shot a number of Pennebaker Hegedus films among many are  “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” “The War Room,” “Moon Over Broadway,” “Only the Strong Survive,” and more recently, “Elaine Stritch at Liberty.”  At present he is working on a film about the dancers Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder.