Nicole Vanden Broeck

Nicole Vanden Broeck is a French-Mexican filmmaker born and raised in Mexico. She received the FONCA-CONACYT Scholarship to study an MFA in Directing at the AFI Conservatory. She is a BAFTA Newcomers talent, has been selected twice for the TFT Program presented by HBO and the HFPA, and is featured in the LatinX Directors list. Nicole’s directorial work has screened at over 60 film festivals around the world including AFI Fest, Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, Out on Film, Women in Film & TV, NALIP Latino Media Fest, etc. Her thesis film ELLE (2020) premiered at the Academy-Qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival and won the Grand Prize Marlyn Mason Award for new voices, new perspectives by women in film. Prior to her move to Los Angeles, Nicole co-founded the independent production company 6pm Films in Mexico City where she directed narrative, documentary and commercial projects. Her documentary WITHIN TIME (2017) won the ECOFILM Festival Grand Prize and the Hola Mexico Film Festival Cinelatino Audience Award. She is currently developing her narrative feature film debut THE SOUND OF FIREWORKS with the support of Cine Qua Non Lab.