Nicola Black
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Nicola Jane Black (born 3 May 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish film producer and director best known for her hard hitting, controversial documentaries and for producing internationally award-winning animations.
Nicola Black is one of Britain's top independent producer director. Best known for her documentaries Designer Vaginas, Bone Breakers, When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett, Tribal Cop, White Jazz, Jenny Saville - Flesh & Blood and the series Mirrorball and Banned in the UK.
Nicola is also the producer of Channel 4's Mesh animation scheme, producing such award-winning digital animations as Covert, Daddy, Killing Time At Home and Watermelon Love.
[edit] Biography
Born and raised in Glasgow, Nicola started off as a trainee editor working on Derek Jarman's Caravagio, before moving on to television with Halfway to Paradise.
Nicola set up her own production company, Blackwatch Productions, in 1995, starting with the highly acclaimed documentary on crime writer James Ellroy's search for his mother's murderer, White Jazz. From this, she went on to produce and direct the series Post Mortem, about genius and illness, examining the lives and works of Beethoven, Virginia Woolf, Nijinsky, Montgomery Clift and Francis Bacon.
In the late 1990s, she produced and directed the internationally praised pop-promo series Mirrorball, featuring exclusive profiles on Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, Roman Coppola, Michel Gondry and Dawn Shadforth.
Nicola then went on to direct and produce a series of highly acclaimed and successful documentaries for Channel 4, including Designer Vaginas (2002), Bone Breakers (2002), When Freddie Met Kenny (2002), Snorting Coke With The BBC (2003) and Banned in the UK (2004).
Since 2001, Nicola has run and produced Channel 4's digital animation scheme Mesh, producing four digital animations a year.
Nicola is married to the graphic designer Clyde Lawson of ISO Design.
