Nikolai Petukhov

Filmmaker & designer
Berkeley, CA

35M+ views on one Super Bowl LX videoFeatured in TIME, People, NBC, BBC Radio 1Official Selection Bushwick Film Festival 2026

AYAN — Feature Documentary / 2025Official Selection of Bushwick Film Festival 2026

Selected work

All work (14) →

About

From the coldest
city on Earth.

I’m from Yakutsk, the coldest city on Earth, and I study Film & Media at UC Berkeley. I speak Sakha, Russian, English and French.

I move between a camera, a timeline and Figma, and I like making things people actually stop for, with a little of Yakutia in all of it.

Yakutsk, winterNow in Yakutsk --:--

What I do

  • Short-form video & content strategy
  • Video production & editing
  • Cinematography
  • Brand identity & brand books
  • UX/UI & prototyping
  • Pitch decks
  • AI tools: Higgsfield, ElevenLabs, Claude

Featured in

Impact

  • 35M+organic views on one Super Bowl LX video
  • +1,200%audience growth, to 11K+ followers
  • 5M+views from AI-made campaigns at Orcool
  • 40+members in the film club I co-founded

Experience

Development CoordinatorUC Berkeley CLTC2025 – now
Product DesignerDwello2025 – 2026
Content Producer & Field CastSuper Bowl LX Halftime Show2026
Marketing InterninDrive · Almaty2025
Marketing SpecialistOrcool2024 – 2025
Project Manager ConsultantPiedmont Consulting Group2025 – now
President & Co-FounderExpansion Pictures2023 – 2025
Cinematographer & CastAYAN, feature documentary2023 – 2025
B.A. Film and MediaUniversity of California, BerkeleyExpected May 2027

Contact

Let’s make
something.