He has received filmmaking grants from Participant Pictures, The Tribeca Institute, The Fledgling Fund, and the True/ False Film Festival. In 2010, he founded {group theory}, a collaboration-driven production studio that creates documentaries, short narratives, and cartoons. In 2013, Filmmaker Magazine named him one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Current projects include “William and the Windmill” (which won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2013), “The Happy Film”, about graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister and his pursuit of happiness, and a doc about the Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”. Nabors co-wrote and produced “Palimpsest”, the narrative short that won a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013.