Nichola is a writer-director of mixed British-Chinese heritage from Liverpool, working across film and television.

 

She is a Sundance Fellow, graduate of the prestigious NFTS Directors Workshop and has been named as an emerging filmmaker by BAFTA. Her 1st TV pilot won All3 Media’s New Drama Script award at Edinburgh TV Festival and was one of eight out of 3000+ projects to be selected for the Sundance Episodic Lab.

 

Her short films have screened at film festivals all around the world, as well as on Hulu, US broadcast TV (FX, Freeform), and Film 4/All4. She is currently developing various TV ideas and her 1st feature film with Ardimages. More recently, she has directed 2nd unit on Mammoth Screen and BBC's next Agatha Christie adaptation 'Towards Zero'. 

 

Nichola gravitates toward emotionally heightened narratives that place characters in strange, out of the ordinary situations. She loves glimpsing into other worlds and characters' inner closeted lives.  

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