Directing

Nicole Otero

Nicole Otero is a writer, director and editor. Her directorial debut, Slip, screened in the shorts program at the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival. In 2016, Nicole shot and edited an experimental documentary on artist Noah Davis. Untitled: In Process was exhibited at the Frye Museum in Seattle and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Nicole was also 2nd Unit Director for the Emmy a…

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Slip

A woman arrives home at the end of a regular day, but as she begins to turn in for the night, she is overcome with a sense of restlessness. Unable to fit inside her own world, she needs out of her life. In an instant, she goes back out into the night. Her journey around a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.

Lemonade

Lemonade · 2016

MovieMusicTV Movie

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.

Civic

Booker he returns to South Central L.A. after several years away. Confined to the interior of his car, he interacts with the people and places he once knew, floating between moments of nostalgia and the subtle realities of a subconscious search for identity.

Who Will Start Another Fire

Who Will Start Another Fire · 2021

Who Will Start Another Fire

An omnibus film featuring nine works by emerging filmmakers of color, Who Will Start Another Fire is the inaugural project of Dedza Films, a distribution initiative focused on showcasing underrepresented communities and the next wave of international storytellers.

Cleopatra at the Mall

Cleopatra at the Mall · 2024

Cleopatra at the Mall

MovieDocumentary

In this thought-provoking documentary, filmmaker Madeline Hunt-Ehrlich delves into the rediscovery of Edmonia Lewis's monumental sculpture, The Death of Cleopatra (1876).

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire · 2025

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.

She Mad: Bitch Zone

She Mad: Bitch Zone · 2020

She Mad: Bitch Zone

At a weeklong camp for teenage girls, a counselor leads the campers through a series of exercises that blend the language of female empowerment and body positivity with the kind of radical transparency that makes for good reality TV. The exercises culminate in a bizarre group confessional.

The African Desperate

The African Desperate · 2022

The African Desperate

MovieComedyDrama

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

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Slip

A woman arrives home at the end of a regular day, but as she begins to turn in for the night, she is overcome with a sense of restlessness. Unable to fit inside her own world, she needs out of her life. In an instant, she goes back out into the night. Her journey around a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.

Director

Lemonade

Lemonade · 2016

MovieMusicTV Movie

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.

Second Unit Director

Civic

Booker he returns to South Central L.A. after several years away. Confined to the interior of his car, he interacts with the people and places he once knew, floating between moments of nostalgia and the subtle realities of a subconscious search for identity.

Screenplay

Who Will Start Another Fire

Who Will Start Another Fire · 2021

Who Will Start Another Fire

An omnibus film featuring nine works by emerging filmmakers of color, Who Will Start Another Fire is the inaugural project of Dedza Films, a distribution initiative focused on showcasing underrepresented communities and the next wave of international storytellers.

Director

Cleopatra at the Mall

Cleopatra at the Mall · 2024

Cleopatra at the Mall

MovieDocumentary

In this thought-provoking documentary, filmmaker Madeline Hunt-Ehrlich delves into the rediscovery of Edmonia Lewis's monumental sculpture, The Death of Cleopatra (1876).

Editor

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire · 2025

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.

Additional Editing

She Mad: Bitch Zone

She Mad: Bitch Zone · 2020

She Mad: Bitch Zone

At a weeklong camp for teenage girls, a counselor leads the campers through a series of exercises that blend the language of female empowerment and body positivity with the kind of radical transparency that makes for good reality TV. The exercises culminate in a bizarre group confessional.

Editor

The African Desperate

The African Desperate · 2022

The African Desperate

MovieComedyDrama

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

Editor