Filmmakers
| NICOLE FRANKLIN | |
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A 20-year Veteran Editor of Television News and Documentaries, NICOLE FRANKLIN is an award-winning filmmaker and producer, editor, stage manager, director of television and theatre and a full-time college instructor in the field of communications. For more than a decade, her company EPIPHANY Inc. has been producing independent films for numerous cable networks including Showtime, BET, IFC, Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel and most recently, The Documentary Channel. Her 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 continues to work in the educational film market with her latest projects – Little Brother and Gershwin & Bess. Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne Brown is a prequel to Meet BESS (nominated for a 2005 IFP Gordon Parks Award for Directing), a film currently in post-production 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 sponsored by the Center for Black Music Research took place in Oslo, Norway. | |
| Nicole is a freelance editor on CBS Sunday Morning and has worked in the same capacity on NBC Nightly News, The Early Show on CBS, and as both an editor and a stage manager on the The Today Show. Nicole’s work has spanned the United States, Brazil, the US Virgin Islands and Norway. She is a guest speaker on the topics of editing, producing and directing documentaries, women in film and independent filmmaking. | |
| Nicole recently completed a segment of Nick Jr.’s new series Kids Around the World. Corporate videos include work with Great Plains Productions as director/writer/editor of
Through the Maze: Women and Pain which premiered on Capitol Hill in cooperation with The Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues. The video launched the Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women, sponsored by Pfizer and The Overlapping Conditions Alliance. |
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| Nicole is a full-time Communications Instructor in the Division of Humanities at Bloomfield College, and formerly an adjunct professor of television broadcast techniques at Long Island University (Brooklyn, NY) as well as an adjunct at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Associations include Producers Guild of America East (PGA East), the Directors Guild of America (DGA), former Board Member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), a Director in DnA (Directors and Actors workshop), DV Republic, National Association of Broadcast Technicians (NABET), International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Board Member of the Black Documentary Collective (BDC). | |
| JASMIN TIGGETT | |
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JASMIN TIGGETT is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and film curator based in New York and Los Angeles. Her production credits include narrative and documentary films, television, commercials, and music videos including 1960 What, a documentary on Detroit history and culture featuring Grammy-nominated jazz artist Gregory Porter, Cannes Short Film Corner selection A Little Bit of More, PBS documentary Through a Lens Darkly, BET’s Harlem Heights, The CW’s America’s Next Top Model, and The Search for the Next Doll, to name a few. Little Brother is Jasmin’s second documentary collaboration with Nicole Franklin, having worked together on Gershwin and Bess: A Dialogue with Ann Brown. |
| Jasmin studied filmmaking at the School of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts at Florida State University and screenwriting in the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA. While at FSU, she completed work on two award-winning short films – serving as editor and sound designer of Proposal, a romantic comedy that screened at Newfest New York, San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival, and Reeling Chicago; and serving as producer of the romantic drama My Josephine, which screened internationally and received honors at Georgetown Film Festival, Nextframe Film Festival, Short Cuts: Cologne, Germany, Baytowne Film Festival, the Independents’ Film Festival, and Columbus International Film Festival, among others. | |
| Jasmin is a Film Curator and Board Member of ActNow Foundation, a nonprofit film and theater organization based in New York. With ActNow, she has served as a programmer and producer of the groundbreaking New Voices in Black Cinema Festival, which showcases independent cinema at Brooklyn’s BAMcinématek. She has also served as Screenings Producer of the Black Documentary Collective, which showcases finished films and works-in-progress at the world-renowned Harlem Stage. | |
| Jasmin has written for film and entertainment outlets including Shadow & Act (indieWIRE) and Cinematiq Magazine, and has worked with festivals including the American Black Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Independent Film Week (IFP). She is a member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), Women in the Arts & Media Coalition (WAM), and the New York Urban League. | |
| Currently, she is a Fellow in the Guy Hanks & Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, founded by Drs. Bill and Camille Cosby. | |
