After graduation, Nic Balthazar worked as a film and theatre critic for newspaper and radio and then became a TV journalist, director and talk show host. He published a short story “Niets was alles wat hij zei”, which he later adapted for the theatre, then into a screenplay and finally a film under the title Ben X (2007). This was his directing debut. Afterwards he made a short feature about the dangers of global warming The Big Ask (2008) and its sequel The Big Ask Again: Dance for the Climate (2009).