A Tale of Three Trees Directed by Mark Nicolosi won the Best Music Video & Best Female Actor (Lead) Award
Be transported on a journey as three trees try to imagine their dreams of a life fulfilled. When their true destiny is revealed, they could not have imagined on their own what God had planned for them. This is a film adaptation of Linda Nash’s wonderful book, A Tale of Three Trees.
As a young girl is struggling with her own inadequacies, she stumbles upon a small acorn who knows that God has a destiny and purpose placed in each life and even though it may not be evident in appearance, it is there just the same. He should know. For inside that small acorn lies a mighty oak. As the young girl wrestles with growing up, the acorn shares the story of A Tale of Three Trees.
The film utilizes the beautiful illustrations by award winning Russian born artist, Anna Shakeeva, and ends with the magnificently produced and arranged song, The Tree of Life, written and sung by Linda Nash. A Tale of Three Trees awakens young and old to the continuous challenge to uphold all life as beautiful…no matter how small.
About the Director: Mark Nicolosi
In 1989 Mark Nicolosi directed his first music video as a production school project and it went from there. He began working with acclaimed director Sherman Halsey as an Assistant Director, Camera Operator, Editor and what ever else it took to make a production go off successful.
Receiving a phone call from Grammy Award nominee singer/songwriter Deborah Allen to direct a video with her, Mark began his own directing career. Although he began building his director's reel, he continued editing and shooting and has built a roster of artist he has worked with that reads like a Who's Who of country music including everyone from Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Lorrie Morgan, Mark Wills, the Kentucky Headhunters and many, many others, to new country sensation Stealing Angels and Canadian superstar George Canyon. He has also spent a large part of his career working in the Christian Music Industry as well, with many artists including Rebecca St.James, Jars of Clay, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant and many more.
Aside from music videos Mark has worked on Tim McGraw's NBC special's. In 2002, Mark had the honor of being one of two camera men (Sherman Halsey being the second, as well as being the director) spending 10 days living in a mansion with a recording studio in the Catskills of Woodstock, New York with Tim McGraw and his band, The Dancehall Doctors. There, they documented Tim and his band recording their first cd together. In 2006 Mark once again teamed up with Sherman and spent a month at Capital Records Studios in Los Angeles taping Michael Bolton recording his Bolton Swings Sinatra CD.
Over the years, Mark has worked on well over 100 #1 music videos, major commercials, TV specials, documentaries, live multi-camera concerts and directed and edited a feature length family film in 2001. In 2015, Mark wrote a Christmas screenplay with the working title The Least of These. He then co-founded M/M Entertainment LLC with his partner Matt McQueen and went into production on the movie in January of 2016 where Mark took on the role as director.