Nicole Haeusser's films have won over a dozen awards and have screened in more then 100 international festivals around the world including the Berlin International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and the National Portrait Gallery in London. A graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television with a MFA in Directing & Cinematography, Nicole was the recipient of numerous film awards and grants, including the Alfred P. Sloan Directing Fellowship, Technicolor Thesis Award and a Motion Picture Association of America Award among others.

Her thesis film The Death Strip was the winner of the Student Emmy  (the College Television Award) for Best Drama, the Directors Guild of America Best Student Filmmaker Award, the Emerging Cinematographers Award from the International Cinematographers Guild and was chosen to be the “Best Film on Campus” from MTVU among others. It was featured on the Sundance Channel and in Kodak’s InCamera “Next generation”. It’s distributed through Shorts International and soon to be available on iTunes worldwide.

Nicole’s feature documentary Little Joe, the life and times of Joe Dallesandro, Andy Warhol’s’ Superstar premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival to great reviews. It had write ups in numerous newspapers and magazines, from the Hollywood Reporter to Interview magazine and Rolling Stone Italy. Nicole splits her time between Los Angeles and London.