NICOLE HAEUSSER is a film director who was raised in Germany but spent most of her adult life in London and Los Angeles. She received her BSc and a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics, worked for Reuters News and on independent films during her time in London. She just completed her MFA in Directing & Cinematography at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, where she was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Directing Fellowship, a Edie & Lew Wasserman Grant, the Technicolor Thesis Grant and a Motion Picture Association of America Award. |
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Nicole’s documentaries and shorts have aired on US and British television, and in Festivals internationally. Her thesis film The Death Strip won first place Best Drama at the College Television Awards (Student Emmy), the Directors Guild of America Best Student Filmmaker Award and the Gold Circle Award for Outstanding Student Film from the Caucus for TV Producers, Writers and Directors Foundation among others. Nicole is currently working on several feature scripts and her feature documentary Little Joe, of the life and times of Joe Dallesandro, Andy Warhol’s’ Superstar, is premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2009. |