Filmmakers
Nicole Franklin, Producer/Director
A 20-year Veteran Editor of Television News and Documentaries, NICOLE FRANKLIN is a filmmaker and producer, editor, stage manager, director of television and theatre and a full-time college instructor in the field of communications. 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 produced, directed, wrote and edited all three productions. Nicole has worked as an editor on NBC Nightly News, The Early Show on CBS, CBS Sunday Morning and as a stage manager on The Today Show. Her most recent project as director/writer/editor is Through the Maze: Women and Pain which premiered at an event 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.
Nicole has worked in the United States, Brazil, the US Virgin Islands and Norway and is a guest speaker on the topics of editing, producing and directing documentaries, women in film and independent filmmaking.
Nicole recently completed two films for the educational film market. In addition to Little Brother, Nicole’s film 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 took place in Oslo, Norway.
In the narrative world, Nicole was a director for one of the vignettes for the independent feature film Short Comings…Humor in Orgasmic Proportions, a comedy about “smart sex”. Nicole also directed and co-wrote with actor/writer/producer Peter Parros Harlem Sistas Double Dutch (WNET’s Reel NY X). This film is derived from her feature length screenplay and soon to be theatrical production, When Sistas Jump (Finalist, 2008 Sundance Screenwriters Lab). As a multi-camera television director Nicole directs the nationally syndicated Black Enterprise Business Report. She trained as a director on the long-running soap opera As The World Turns.
Nicole is a full-time Communications Instructor in the Division of Humanities at Bloomfield College, and formerly an adjunct professor of television broadcast techniques and digital video workshop at Long Island University (Brooklyn, NY) as well as an adjunct at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she taught Sight and Sound Studio. Nicole was featured in the NY 411 Production Guide’s tribute to women filmmakers. Associations include Producers Guild of America East (PGA East), the Directors Guild of America (DGA), Chair of the New Technology Committee for the DGA AD/Stage Managers Council (NY), 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, Producer/Director
JASMIN TIGGETT is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and film curator based in New York. Her production experience includes credits on commercials, music videos, and reality TV including BET’s Harlem Heights, The CW’s America’s Next Top Model and The Search for the Next Doll. Little Brother is Jasmin’s second documentary collaboration with Nicole Franklin, having worked with Nicole in post-production on Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne 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 the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While at FSU, Jasmin completed work on two award-winning short films. She edited and sound designed Proposal, a romantic comedy screened at Newfest New York, San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival, and Reeling Chicago. She also produced the film 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 Film Programmer and Producer of the ANF Short Film Collective at ActNow Foundation, a non-profit film and theater organization that provides exposure for independent artists of color. In February 2011, she curated and hosted ActNow’s Brooklyn Block Shorts program as part of the groundbreaking New Voices in Black Cinema Festival at BAMcinematék. Jasmin is also Screenings Producer of the Black Documentary Collective, which showcases feature-length documentaries and works-in-progress at the world-renowned Harlem Stage.
Jasmin is a member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), Women in the Arts & Media Coalition (WAM), Black Documentary Collective, and the New York Urban League. In addition to her work in film and television, she also paints and illustrates.
