“elegant and unapologetic.”

BIO

Nicole’s first feature, Leave Yourself Alone, is a three-time award winning micro-budget verité film that depicts the lasting effect of a sexual assault on a young actor as two men film her struggle to land a break-out role. The film points its gaze at a vulnerable young woman with the men behind the camera challenging the moral boundaries of keeping the camera rolling as her trauma triggers an emotional and psychological break. The film's style presents fiction as fact and makes him consider his part as a bystander.

In 2015, Nicole directed one of seven original Twilight franchise shorts in partnership with WIF, Stephenie Meyer, Facebook and Lionsgate. She was honored alongside the other directors at the Crystal+ Lucy Awards and the film was presented at the Arclight Hollywood followed by a Q&A with Stephenie Meyer.

After years of working under production designers like Kevin Thompson, Adam Stockhausen, K.K. Barrett, Molly Hughes, Mark Friedberg and Deb Jensen, Nicole was accepted into The AFI Conservatory Directing Program, wrapping her career as an Assistant Art Director on Steven Spielberg's West Side Story. She was the recipient of the Women In Film/Tichi-Wilkerson Endowed Scholarship and the AFI Scholarship Fund upon entering the Conservatory. Her short film, You, was an Official Selection of Outfest’s 40th and New Fest 22’.

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“I worked 14-hour days as an unpaid intern on a film for three months, and drove from my friend’s couch in Philly, to Brooklyn every day. I would then work the 11pm to 5am Friday shift, and the Saturday and Sunday brunch shifts at a restaurant/club in Northern Liberties. All I had was $20,000 of debt and a film degree. I added $19,000 of credit card debt, making my first feature. When I left for AFI, I was designing for a Spielberg film, had a feature film distributed, and was debt-free. The name of that first film gig was ’Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You.”