Nicholas and Crystal are a husband/wife team that own Crowbait Pictures, a boutique production company based in Vancouver, Canada and Park City, Utah. Since 2008 Crowbait Pictures has specialized in developing up-start productions in formats ranging from short films, web series and music videos, to television pilots and feature films. Crowbait Pictures has rendered services for a tremendous number of Vancouver feature films and commercials. Services that Nicholas provides include directing, cinematography, behind-the-scenes documentaries, writing and editing. Crystal’s area of specialty is production and her services are focused on producing, production managing and coordinating.  

Crowbait Pictures’ most recent notable projects include:

Undiagnosed - Feature Length Documentary - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman

Stan Douglas’ Penn Station’s Half Century - Behind The Scenes - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

Strange Fellows Brewing “Dead Fellows Haunt” - Short Mockumentary - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

Strange Fellows Brewing “NeverTheLess” - Commercial Series - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

Strange Fellows Brewing “Lucky Charm” - Commercial - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

Strange Fellows Brewing “Twas The Night Before Krampus” - Commercial - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

Shift Shakes - Commercials - Director, DoP & Editor Nicholas Miller

Yak + Nak - Commercial - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

UBC "Housing" - Commercial - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

UBC "William Shatner" - Speaker Series - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

UBC "President" - Speaker Series - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

UBC EDx - Speaker Series - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

BC Cancer Foundation - Series of 5 Short Documentaries & Commercials - Produced by Crystal Shearman

Mars One "The Greatest Adventure" - Commercial - Director & Editor Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman

Salt Lake Climbers Alliance - Commercial - Director, DoP & Editor Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman

NGLY1 Foundation - Short Film - Director, DoP & Editor Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman

1491 - APTN Docudrama Miniseries- 1st AC Nicholas Miller

Tarot - Short Film - Director, DoP & Editor Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman

Half Empty - Television Pilot - Director & DoP Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman

Demo Dummies - Feature Documentary - B Camera Operating by Nicholas Miller

Olympic Athlete Pride - Short Documentary - B-Unit Director & DoP Nicholas Miller

Om Sweet Om - 8 Episode Web Series - Directed by Nicholas Miller

Subaru “Sumo” - Behind-the-Scenes Documentary - Director, DoP & Editor Nicholas Miller

Lenscrafters - Behind-the-Scenes Featurette Documentary - Co-Directed by Nicholas Miller

Very Bad Men - Opening Title Sequence, Television True Crime Series - 1st AC and BTS Nicholas Miller

Spirit Bloom "Time" - Music Video - Director, DoP & Editor Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman

Megan Todd "Little Things" - Music Video - Director & Editor Nicholas Miller, Produced by Crystal Shearman