Nicole Ballivian is a Sundance Screenwriter Fellow and director.

Nicole’s drama pilot script, YEMMA, was the 2022 Pilot Winner for the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Her drama feature screenplay, SLEEPING ON STONES, was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

Nicole wrote and directed the comedic short film, JOE & THE SHAWL, that was the 2021 Grand Winner at New York Women in Film & Television Festival. Nicole's screenwriting and directorial debut was the comedic feature, DRIVING TO ZIGZIGLAND, shot in Los Angeles & Palestine, which won international festival awards.

Nicole’s production background includes work for Warner Bros, Universal Pictures and in independent film. She is a graduate in Film & Media Arts from American University in Washington DC. Raised in Washington DC, Nicole is a polyglot, Fourth Culture Kid who mostly writes about the confluence of identity and emigration.