Nikila Nikki Cole

Nikki just returned from winning Best Screenwriter for The Bride's Wedding in the Jogja Int'l Film Festival, Java and her screenplay for the series Serpent Queen has placed as Finalist in the Oaxaca Film Fest Screenwriting Challenge and quarterfinalist in the WeScreenplay Television Competition in Los Angeles.

After travelling the world as a dancer and choreographer, Nikki Cole transitioned into film production and continued circling the globe with her 11 year old daughter Sarah for three years. They created a PBS and Vision TV documentary WANDERINGS: A JOURNEY TO CONNECT, as they explored strange and unusual communities from Korea to Iceland to India.

Her other documentaries and dance films include PAUL’S PIECE OF SKY (PBS) about a struggling African American Dance Company and INTIMACIES about Michael Kearns, Hollywood’s first openly HIV+ actor. (Bravo, Audience Vote: Best Documentary, Palm Springs Int’l Film Fest).

Now, after an extensive career as a writer/producer/director of over 15 factual series including ICE ROAD TRUCKERS, THE SHOPPING BAGS, TAKE THIS HOUSE & SELL IT, TILL DEBT DO US PART, FOUR WEDDINGS AND STORAGE WARS CANADA, she’s expanded into scripted entertainment with a dramatic short, MY FATHER, JOE adapted from a story by Jack Engelhard (INDECENT PROPOSAL). After winning five international awards including the Special Jury Remi Award at WorldFest Houston, it was well received in Cannes, broadcast on The Movie Channel and released on iTunes. She directed the CSA nominated TESSA and SCOTT about Canada’s Olympic ice dancing champions, KEEPING CANADA ALIVE, and CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON for the CBC.

TELEVISION WRITING/PRODUCING

ANYTHING BUT AVERAGE (Pilot) CBC/Frantic Films - Showrunner/Executive Producer
ICE ROAD TRUCKERS (Season 9-10-11) History Channel - Post Story Producer
STORAGE WARS CANADA OLN/Proper Television (Seasons 1-2) - Post Story Producer
TAKE THIS HOUSE AND SELL IT! W Network/Upfront (17 eps) - Series Producer
BUY ME HGTV/Whalley Abbey Media (Season 1) - Series Producer
YOU, ME & THE KIDS W Network/Force Four (Seasons 3-4) - Series Producer
THE SHOPPING BAGS W Network./Force Four (Season 1) - Series Producer
*Gemini Nominee, Best Practical Information Series
COMPLETELY HAMMERED W Network/Whalley-Abbey
(Season 1) - Series Producer

TELEVISION DIRECTING

THE UNSELLABLES HGTV US/Cineflix - 6 Episodes
CANADA’S SMARTEST PERSON 2 CBC/Media Headquarters Bio Packs
KEEPING CANADA ALIVE CBC/Force Four - 1 Episode
TESSA AND SCOTT W Network/Media HQ 2 Episodes - 2 Episodes
*Canadian Screen Award Nominee, Best Factual Program or Series
FOUR WEDDINGS CANADA Slice/Proper Television - 5 Episodes
THE LIST Slice/Cineflix - 5 Episodes
AGENT VS. AGENT HGTV/Proper Television - 7 Episodes
*Gemini Nominee, Best Practical Information Series
HOME TO STAY Alliance/Atlantis - 12 episodes
GREG FREWIN, MAGIC MAN HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
CBC/Frogwater Media - Special
PARTY MAMAS WEtv/Barna-Alper Prods. - 5 Episodes
STUCK W Network/52 Media - 7 Episodes
OUTLAW INLAWS Slice/Media HQ - 4 Episodes
WEDDING SOS Slice/Cineflix - 3 Episodes
TILL DEBT DO US PART Life Network/Frantic - 5 Episodes
*Gemini Winner, Best Practical Information Series
YOU, ME & THE KIDS W Network/Force Four - 8 Episodes

FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES

INTIMACIES - Bravo Network - Writer/Director
PAUL’S PIECE OF SKY - PBS - Writer/Director
WANDERINGS: A JOURNEY TO CONNECT - PBS - Writer/Director

WEBISODES
TONEMBEE (documentary) Writer/Director/Producer


DRAMATIC SHORTS

MY FATHER, JOE - Writer/Director/Producer
*Official Selection at over a dozen International Film Festivals, winner of five awards
Cannes, The Movie Network
IN A CLOSED ROOM Writer/Director/Producer
Winner (NYU, Cincinnati Film Fest)

AWARDS

BEST SCREENWRITING, Jogja International Film Festival
The Bride’s Wedding, feature screenplay

FINALIST, Oaxaca Int'l Film Festival Screenwriting challenge, Serpent
Queen, series pilot script.

QUARTERFINALIST, Screencraft Public Domain Screenplay Competition
Serpent Queen, series pilot script

QUARTERFINALIST, WEScreenplay Competition, Serpent Queen

BEST FOREIGN FILM, Shamrock Film Festival, Rosemont, Minneapolis
BEST FAMILY FILM: Honolulu Film Awards, Hawaii
SPECIAL JURY REMI AWARD, WorldFEST, Houston
BEST DRAMATIC SHORT: daVinci Film Festival, Oregon
My Father, Joe, Short Drama, Distributor: Shorts International, iTunes. TMN
“A supremely touching film”, editor, columnist Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
“May bring a lump to the throat or two. Plus you gotta love the brief inclusion of a bagel bakery for an authentic 1940’s Montreal Jewish feel” – Martin Dunfy, Georgia Straight

BEST SHORT FILM, Cincinnati Film Festival, NYU-SCE
In a Closed Room, Short Drama
"A film name to watch for!" - New York Filmmakers

Gemini nominations: BEST PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Agent vs. Agent,
Buy Me!
Shopping Bags,
Debbie Travis: Facelift

Gemini winner: BEST PRACTICAL INFORMATON
Till Debt Do Us Part, Lifestyle series

Leo Award: BEST INFORMATION SERIES
You…Me & the Kids, docu-drama series

BEST DOCUMENTARY – Audience Vote, Palm Springs International Film Fest
Intimacies, Feature Documentary

"The show's final performance was captured on film and melded with the HIV-positive actor's own life story to create Intimacies; a powerful piece of cinema verite that charts the emotional landscape of AIDS in far greater detail than anything churned out by Hollywood." - Portland Weekly

"A heroic film"! - LA Times

Leo Award nomination, BEST DOCUMENTARY, Yorkton Golden Sheaf nomination
Wanderings: A Journey to Connect, Feature Documentary

She is currently developing two drama series and two features.

REPRESENTATION:
Factual: Kristin Peace, Kaplan Stahler Agency, 8383 Wilshire Blvd.,
Ste. 923
Beverly Hills CA 90211,
323-653-4483

Scripted: Sohrab Merchant, Characters Talent Agency, Toronto,
416-964-8522 Ext. 271