The Nix brothers
| Evan and Adam Nix | |
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Evan Nix (left) and Adam Nix (right) on set in 2012
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| Born |
Evan Nix Adam Nix December 10, 1983 (Evan) October 11, 1986 (Adam) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film directors, producers, screenwriters, film editors, cinematographers, musicians |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Notable work | The Grawlix, Total Ghost |
| Website | nixbros |
Evan Nix (born December 10, 1983) and Adam Nix (born October 11, 1986), known together professionally as the Nix Bros., are American film directors, producers, and musicians. They are most well known for filming the series The Grawlix on Funny Or Die, a weekly comedy show featuring regular appearances by comedians Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy, and Andrew Orvedahl, and for directing an episode of Paul Feig's 2015 comedy series Other Space. The two are also known as the founding members of the synthpop comedy band Total Ghost, a group for which they won best music video at the Festivus film festival in Denver, Colorado. The Nix Bros. later directed the Festivus spinoff Laugh Track Comedy Festival in 2011 and 2012.
Evan and Adam Nix were born in Denver, though spent most of their life growing up in Boulder City, Nevada, a town 20 miles outside of Las Vegas. The two were self-described hoodlums growing up, who were once caught breaking into a housing development that was under construction, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage by gluing windows shut, and "throwing things down the stairs and just beating it up."
Their father was a city council member in Boulder City and they lived on a golf course, where the Nix brothers honed their skills as filmmakers by blowing things up and filming the explosions in slow motion. They studied filmmaking at the College of Southern Nevada and made short films before transferring to the Colorado Film School in 2006. Their sister is fashion model Alison Nix.
The duo's first film, Fortune Cookie, was recorded and edited in-camera on a VHS camcorder that Evan received as a gift when he was 14. The project won the Audience Award at the Boulder City, Nevada Dam Short Film Festival in 2004, though the duo hated the film and would later destroy all evidence of its existence. The Nix Bros. continued experimenting with the camcorder, making short films such as Lowell Gleason Wears Glasses, before eventually moving to Denver in 2006 to attend The Colorado Film School.
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