Nicole Vanden Broeck is a Mexican-French filmmaker. She received the FONCA-CONACYT Scholarship to pursue an MFA in Directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory and earned her master’s degree with her thesis film ELLE (2020), which premiered at the Academy-Qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival and won the Grand Prize Marlyn Mason Award given for new voices, new perspectives by women in film. She is currently a BAFTA Newcomer talent and is developing her narrative feature film debut THE SOUND OF FIREWORKS with the support of Cine Qua Non Lab.

Prior to her move to Los Angeles, Nicole co-founded the independent film production company 6pm Films based in Mexico City. Her short documentary CON EL TIEMPO (2017) won the Best Short Film Award at the EcoFilm Festival and the Cinelatino Audience Award at the Hola Mexico Film Festival, as a part of the Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today fellowship presented by HBO and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She recently finished her latest documentary STAY APART TOGETHER produced by Perro Azul and Studio333.