Nick Rosen
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Nick Rosen is an author, campaigner and award-winning documentary-maker. His latest book "Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America" is published by Penguin Books and was released July 27, 2010.
His series of short films about Chinese Billionaires went out on BBC World, and is on the BBC web site at bbc.com/oneinabillion
His book How To Live Off-Grid, published by Doubleday June 2007, is a guide to escaping the rat race; part of an ecological campaign to change the rules on planning permission via his website Off-Grid.net started in 1996.
He is making a documentary series based on both the books, featuring off-grid households around the US and the UK.
In the early nineties, Nick became a freelance journalist, primarily writing for The Times
and The Guardian
. It was during this period that he met Katharine Hamnett and co-founded the short lived eco magazine TOMORROW.
In 1992, Rosen formed a TV production company, Vivum, and began to make documentaries for the ITV First Tuesday series. In 1992-3 he produced Brezhnev's Daughter, a documentary about the way the Nomenklatura
were coming to terms with the new order in Russia. It won Best International Production prize at the NY Film and TV Festival.
Rosen wrote "The Durlacher Report" which became the base document in many of the early Internet IPOs, such as Demon, Pipex and Easynet, and followed this with The Net-Head Handbook, a satire about the dawning of the internet.
In 2004, Rosen produced Sacred Ground, the fight for Ground Zero, for PBS and Channel 4 – a film about the battle to build a meaningful memorial at Ground Zero
, and in 2006 he produced Britain’s Commuter Nightmare, a one-hour documentary for Channel 4
Dispatches.
His other ventures as start-ups was Online Research Agency which in its short life produced one considerable work "Business.eu" - a report focused on online business in Europe. Online Research Agency collapsed in 2001.
In 1999 he met his wife, Turner nominated artist Fiona Banner
. They married in 2005 and have a young daughter.
He is the son of scientist Dennis Rosen.
His series of short films about Chinese Billionaires went out on BBC World, and is on the BBC web site at bbc.com/oneinabillion
His book How To Live Off-Grid, published by Doubleday June 2007, is a guide to escaping the rat race; part of an ecological campaign to change the rules on planning permission via his website Off-Grid.net started in 1996.
He is making a documentary series based on both the books, featuring off-grid households around the US and the UK.
In the early nineties, Nick became a freelance journalist, primarily writing for The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
and The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
. It was during this period that he met Katharine Hamnett and co-founded the short lived eco magazine TOMORROW.
In 1992, Rosen formed a TV production company, Vivum, and began to make documentaries for the ITV First Tuesday series. In 1992-3 he produced Brezhnev's Daughter, a documentary about the way the Nomenklatura
Nomenklatura
The nomenklatura were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the...
were coming to terms with the new order in Russia. It won Best International Production prize at the NY Film and TV Festival.
Rosen wrote "The Durlacher Report" which became the base document in many of the early Internet IPOs, such as Demon, Pipex and Easynet, and followed this with The Net-Head Handbook, a satire about the dawning of the internet.
In 2004, Rosen produced Sacred Ground, the fight for Ground Zero, for PBS and Channel 4 – a film about the battle to build a meaningful memorial at Ground Zero
Ground zero
The term ground zero describes the point on the Earth's surface closest to a detonation...
, and in 2006 he produced Britain’s Commuter Nightmare, a one-hour documentary for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
Dispatches.
His other ventures as start-ups was Online Research Agency which in its short life produced one considerable work "Business.eu" - a report focused on online business in Europe. Online Research Agency collapsed in 2001.
In 1999 he met his wife, Turner nominated artist Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner is an English artist, who was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2002. In 2010, she produced new work for a Duveen Hall commission at Tate Britain. She is one of the Young British Artists.-Life and work:...
. They married in 2005 and have a young daughter.
He is the son of scientist Dennis Rosen.