ABOUT

Nicole Vanden Broeck is a Mexican-French director, screenwriter and educator born and raised in Mexico. She received the FONCA-CONACYT Scholarship to pursue an MFA in Directing at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles and earned her master’s degree with her thesis film ELLE (2020), which premiered at the Academy Award®-qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival and received the Grand Prize Marlyn Mason Award for new voices and new perspectives by women in film. After graduating, she was selected as a BAFTA Newcomer talent.

Prior to moving to LA, she co-founded the independent production company 6pm Films based in Mexico City, where she directed narrative, documentary and branded content. Her commercial CARNAVAL DE BAHIDORÁ (2014) won the Best Commercial Award at the Pantalla de Cristal Film Festival, and her documentary CON EL TIEMPO (2017) won the Best Short Film Award at the EcoFilm Festival and the Cinelatino Audience Award at the Hola Mexico Film Festival as a part of the TFT fellowship presented by HBO and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Nicole's latest documentary STAY APART TOGETHER (2023) has screened at GIFF, RIIFF, DocsMX, Filminist and DOQUMENTA.

Her directorial work has been showcased at over 60 film festivals including AFI Fest, Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, Out on Film, Women in Film & TV, among others. As a commercial director, she has collaborated with brands such as Mattel, Vans, Liverpool, Duracell and Pro Plan. Currently, Nicole teaches Film at Universidad Iberoamericana and Advertising at Tecnológico de Monterrey Ciudad de México. She is also developing her debut narrative feature script with the support of Cine Qua Non Lab, alongside other long and short form projects.