Nicholas Ma

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Nicholas Ma (born circa 1983) is a film director and producer who is best known for producing the 2018 award-winning documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?. He was born around 1983 to Yo-Yo Ma and Jill Hornor. He has one sibling, Emily Ma who was born around 1985. Nicholas Ma attended Harvard University and graduated in 2005. He went on to work at McKinsey & Company at both their New York City and Shanghai locations. He also worked with Senator John Kerry on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee focusing on global economic policy. In 2013, he left McKinsey & Company. He later went back to school and attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Television in 2017. Ma, alongside Morgan Neville and Caryn Capotosto, produced Neville's 2018 award-winning documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?. Ma and Neville had interacted before on Neville's 2015 documentary The Music of Strangers, which was about the Silk Road Ensemble formed by Ma's father...

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