Nicole Chi is a Costa Rican-born Chinese director, editor and occasional producer, currently based in Austin, Texas. Nicole graduated from Mass Communication with an emphasize in Audiovisual Production from the University of Costa Rica, and holds an MFA in Film and Media Production from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a Fulbright Fellow.
She’s been recognized with awards like the Director's Guild of America’s Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for her short film COMADRE and the AFS’s Texas New Voices Grant for her first feature length documentary GUIÁN.
Her first feature length documentary GUIÁN, a very personal project about her grandmother, and her Asian-Latino identity; was awarded a Special Mention at Visions du Réel (2023) in the Burning Lights Competition.
Her work has been selected in festivals like Telluride, New Orleans Film Festival, BOGOSHORTS, SSFF & ASIA and Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse.
She just recently premiered her narrative short film Los Mosquitos at SXSW, and is currently in development of her first narrative feature film La Versión Cansada (The Tired Version).