Nicolas Chartier
Chief Executive Officer, Voltage Pictures
Nicolas Chartier, the Academy Award winning producer of The Hurt Locker, has been involved in the financing, production and sales of a diverse range of films. In 2005, he founded Voltage Pictures, an International financing, sales and production operation. He has handled over 150 movies in the past 6 years. The Hurt Locker was Voltage Pictures first in-house production and claimed 6 Oscars in 2009, including Best Picture. Killer Joe was Voltage’s second in-house film, directed by William Friedkin and starring Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch, which was released by LD Entertainment. Shortly after, Nicolas produced Dallas Buyers Club, which won Best Actor for Matthew McConaughey and Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto. He also produced The Company You Keep, directed by Robert Redford and starring Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie and Brit Marling which premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. More recently Nicolas executive produced The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman directed by 4-time nominated DGA director Frederik Bond, starring Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood. He then produced Don Jon, directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson, and Julianne Moore. Nicolas’ latest productions are Good Kill, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, and Fathers and Daughters, starring Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, and Diane Kruger and directed by Gabrielle Muccino. Nicolas is also Producer of I.T. directed by John Moore and starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Scott, which is currently in post-production and Executive Producer on A Tale of Love and Darkness, written, directed and starring Natalie Portman which premiered in the Special Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2015.
Prior to forming Voltage, Chartier was VP of sales and acquisitions at Myriad Pictures. He has been involved in the sales of a diverse range of films there such as The Good Girl and Van Wilder. As the president of Vortex Pictures, he sold titles such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Nicolas Cage’s Sonny. As head of sales and acquisitions at Arclight Films, Chartier acquired Dean Devlin’s The Librarian, 2006 Academy Award winner Crash and The Matador starring Pierce Brosnan. During his time at Arclight, Chartier also sold Lord of War starring Nicolas Cage and The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino.