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© Reel Sisters Film Fest 2010
Nicole Franklin
Réalisateur/trice, Metteur/se en scène, Producteur/trice, Journaliste, Professeur, Scénariste, Monteur/se
États-Unis
© Reel Sisters Film Fest 2010
Français
Nicole Franklin est une cinéaste Africaine Américaine multiprimée. Elle est aussi dramaturge et productrice.
English
Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker whose credits include the feature length film « I Was Made To Love Her: the Double Dutch Documentary » (Sundance Channel, numerous festival awards including Best Documentary at the Hollywood Black Film Festival), the short film « The Double Dutch Divas! » (Filmakers Library, numerous festival awards including The Inspiration Award at the Riverrun Film Festival), and the television program Journeys « In Black: The Jamie Foxx Biography » (BET). Nicole produced, directed, wrote and edited all three productions. Currently Nicole is filming « Meet BESS » (formerly known as « Gershwin, Norway and the Artists’ Libido: a Dialogue with Anne Brown », nominated for a 2005 IFP Gordon Parks Award for Directing), which profiles the soprano who originated the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess and the actress for whom George Gershwin wrote the part. Principal photography is on location in Oslo, Norway.
In the narrative world, Nicole just wrapped production as a director for one of the vignettes for the independent feature film « Short Comings?Humor in Orgasmic Proportions », a comedy about « smart sex ». Nicole also directed and co-wrote with actor/writer/producer Peter Parros « Harlem Sistas Double Dutch » (WNET’s Reel NY X). This film is derived from her new feature length screenplay « When Sistas Jump », her fourth and final double Dutch film.
Nicole has also entered the world of commercials directing Harlem Brewing Company’s first Internet commercial for Sugar Hill Golden Ale, entitled « The Quest ».
In addition to film Nicole is directing theatre. Nicole is currently involved in the reading series at the famed New Federal Theatre as well as directing four of the « 365 Plays/365 Days » pieces of Suzan-Lori Parks for performances at both the Richard Allen Cultural Center for the Arts (RACCA) and The Public Theatre of New York. Nicole helmed the two character one-act « Statues of Liberty » by playwright Elisa Abatsis which premiered at the Impact Theatre’s Winter One Act Theatre Festival (Brooklyn, NY). In Time Square’s Sage Theatre Nicole also directed a successful staged reading of Judy Chicurel’s play set on a New York City subway, « Damon and Debra », starring Jas Anderson and Lorraine Bracco.
Nicole produced writer/director George Valencia’s award-winning short film « Moment To Moment » (Showtime Latino Filmmaker Award), writer/director Ruth Sergel’s « Belle » (Broadcast premiere on IFC, Tribeca Film Festival, Lake Placid Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival) as well as other short films that have gone on to competition in numerous festivals including Slamdance. Nicole is a director, an editor, a post production supervisor, a consulting producer on several upcoming documentaries, a guest speaker on the topic of women in film and travels to Brazil as a guest speaker on racial inclusion in cinema. She also trained as a director on the long-running soap opera « As The World Turns ». Nicole directs corporate videos and commercials, freelances as a digital cameraperson, and edits « The Today Show », « Dateline », and « NBC Nightly News ».
Nicole is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s TISCH and was featured in the 2002 publication of the NY 411 Production Guide and its profile of women filmmakers in New York. As for affiliations past and present, Nicole’s associations include Producers Guild of America (PGA), Board Member of New York Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT), Independent Feature Project (IFP), Cinewomen NY, a Director in DnA (Directors and Actors workshop), DocuClub, The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), DV Republic, National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), National Association of Broadcast Technicians (NABET) and the actors’ unions SAG and AFTRA.
FILMOGRAPHY (film television video)
(In Production)
* Meet BESS (formerly known as Gershwin, Norway and the Artists’ Libido: A Dialogue with Anne Brown)
Producer/Director/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Director of Photography: Henry Adebonojo
Producer: Hanna Hemila
(In Pre-Production)
* Dream Street
Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: Lonette McKee™
Executive Producer: Lonette Productions, Ltd.
2005
* Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2
Assistant Camera/Camera/Starring as Herself: Nicole Franklin
Producer/Writer/Director: William Greaves
The film premiered at Sundance 2005 and went on to screen in New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.
2005
* Harlem Sistas Double Dutch
Co-Screenwriter/Co-Executive Producer/Director: Nicole Franklin
Co-Executive Producer/Co-Screenwriter: Peter Parros
Producer: Faith Pennick
2001
* Journeys In Black: the Jamie Foxx Biography
Producer/Director/Writer/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Director of Photography: Marcia Machado
2000
* I Was Made To Love Her: the Double Dutch Documentary
Producer/Director/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Co-Producer: Gina Vizzini
Director of Photography: Marcia Machado
Sundance Channel (2001-2003)
Distributor, Filmakers Library (www.filmakers.com)
Awards:
Best Documentary, Atlanta’s Night of the Black Independents
Best Documentary, Hollywood Black Film Festival
Best African-American Documentary, Brooklyn Film Festival
CiNY Award for Outstanding Filmmaking, Cinewomen NY
Gordon Parks Award Finalist for Directing a Feature
Honorable Mention, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Filmworks
Grant Recipient of The Jerome Foundation
Grant Recipient of the Women’s Film Finishing Fund
2000
* The Double Dutch Divas!
Producer/Director/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Co-Producer: Gina Vizzini
Director of Photography: Marcia Machado
Filmakers Library, Distributor (www.filmakers.com)
Awards:
Audience Award, African-American Women in Cinema Conference and Festival First Runner Up, First Annual Original Action Shero Film Festival Brooklyn, NY
Inspirational Documentary Award, Riverrun Film Festival Ashville, NC
Honorable Mention, Women of Color Film Festival New York, NY
* Belle
Co-Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: Ruth Sergel
A Street Pictures Production/DVD (2003)
2002
* Moment To Moment
Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: George Valencia
Executive Producer: Queen Fig Productions
Award: Showtime Latino Filmmaker Award 2003
2002
* Ladies Room
Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: Kate Bernstein
Video
Nicole has Produced/Field produced/Directed/Stage Managed videos for Mumbleypeg Productions, New York Life (Studio 51), Safe Horizon (New York Times Foundation/ Great Plains Productions/Mona Ink Productions), The United Way (Foster Care Task Force), My Soul Sings Gospel Music Publishing, Mount Morris Park Historic District (Harlem, NY) and the Center for Black Music Research/Columbia College Chicago in both their Chicago and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands facilities.
In the narrative world, Nicole just wrapped production as a director for one of the vignettes for the independent feature film « Short Comings?Humor in Orgasmic Proportions », a comedy about « smart sex ». Nicole also directed and co-wrote with actor/writer/producer Peter Parros « Harlem Sistas Double Dutch » (WNET’s Reel NY X). This film is derived from her new feature length screenplay « When Sistas Jump », her fourth and final double Dutch film.
Nicole has also entered the world of commercials directing Harlem Brewing Company’s first Internet commercial for Sugar Hill Golden Ale, entitled « The Quest ».
In addition to film Nicole is directing theatre. Nicole is currently involved in the reading series at the famed New Federal Theatre as well as directing four of the « 365 Plays/365 Days » pieces of Suzan-Lori Parks for performances at both the Richard Allen Cultural Center for the Arts (RACCA) and The Public Theatre of New York. Nicole helmed the two character one-act « Statues of Liberty » by playwright Elisa Abatsis which premiered at the Impact Theatre’s Winter One Act Theatre Festival (Brooklyn, NY). In Time Square’s Sage Theatre Nicole also directed a successful staged reading of Judy Chicurel’s play set on a New York City subway, « Damon and Debra », starring Jas Anderson and Lorraine Bracco.
Nicole produced writer/director George Valencia’s award-winning short film « Moment To Moment » (Showtime Latino Filmmaker Award), writer/director Ruth Sergel’s « Belle » (Broadcast premiere on IFC, Tribeca Film Festival, Lake Placid Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival) as well as other short films that have gone on to competition in numerous festivals including Slamdance. Nicole is a director, an editor, a post production supervisor, a consulting producer on several upcoming documentaries, a guest speaker on the topic of women in film and travels to Brazil as a guest speaker on racial inclusion in cinema. She also trained as a director on the long-running soap opera « As The World Turns ». Nicole directs corporate videos and commercials, freelances as a digital cameraperson, and edits « The Today Show », « Dateline », and « NBC Nightly News ».
Nicole is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s TISCH and was featured in the 2002 publication of the NY 411 Production Guide and its profile of women filmmakers in New York. As for affiliations past and present, Nicole’s associations include Producers Guild of America (PGA), Board Member of New York Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT), Independent Feature Project (IFP), Cinewomen NY, a Director in DnA (Directors and Actors workshop), DocuClub, The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), DV Republic, National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), National Association of Broadcast Technicians (NABET) and the actors’ unions SAG and AFTRA.
FILMOGRAPHY (film television video)
(In Production)
* Meet BESS (formerly known as Gershwin, Norway and the Artists’ Libido: A Dialogue with Anne Brown)
Producer/Director/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Director of Photography: Henry Adebonojo
Producer: Hanna Hemila
(In Pre-Production)
* Dream Street
Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: Lonette McKee™
Executive Producer: Lonette Productions, Ltd.
2005
* Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2
Assistant Camera/Camera/Starring as Herself: Nicole Franklin
Producer/Writer/Director: William Greaves
The film premiered at Sundance 2005 and went on to screen in New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.
2005
* Harlem Sistas Double Dutch
Co-Screenwriter/Co-Executive Producer/Director: Nicole Franklin
Co-Executive Producer/Co-Screenwriter: Peter Parros
Producer: Faith Pennick
2001
* Journeys In Black: the Jamie Foxx Biography
Producer/Director/Writer/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Director of Photography: Marcia Machado
2000
* I Was Made To Love Her: the Double Dutch Documentary
Producer/Director/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Co-Producer: Gina Vizzini
Director of Photography: Marcia Machado
Sundance Channel (2001-2003)
Distributor, Filmakers Library (www.filmakers.com)
Awards:
Best Documentary, Atlanta’s Night of the Black Independents
Best Documentary, Hollywood Black Film Festival
Best African-American Documentary, Brooklyn Film Festival
CiNY Award for Outstanding Filmmaking, Cinewomen NY
Gordon Parks Award Finalist for Directing a Feature
Honorable Mention, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Filmworks
Grant Recipient of The Jerome Foundation
Grant Recipient of the Women’s Film Finishing Fund
2000
* The Double Dutch Divas!
Producer/Director/Editor: Nicole Franklin
Co-Producer: Gina Vizzini
Director of Photography: Marcia Machado
Filmakers Library, Distributor (www.filmakers.com)
Awards:
Audience Award, African-American Women in Cinema Conference and Festival First Runner Up, First Annual Original Action Shero Film Festival Brooklyn, NY
Inspirational Documentary Award, Riverrun Film Festival Ashville, NC
Honorable Mention, Women of Color Film Festival New York, NY
* Belle
Co-Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: Ruth Sergel
A Street Pictures Production/DVD (2003)
2002
* Moment To Moment
Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: George Valencia
Executive Producer: Queen Fig Productions
Award: Showtime Latino Filmmaker Award 2003
2002
* Ladies Room
Producer: Nicole Franklin
Writer/Director: Kate Bernstein
Video
Nicole has Produced/Field produced/Directed/Stage Managed videos for Mumbleypeg Productions, New York Life (Studio 51), Safe Horizon (New York Times Foundation/ Great Plains Productions/Mona Ink Productions), The United Way (Foster Care Task Force), My Soul Sings Gospel Music Publishing, Mount Morris Park Historic District (Harlem, NY) and the Center for Black Music Research/Columbia College Chicago in both their Chicago and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands facilities.
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