New York, NY, USA
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Request QuoteNicole Teeny is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Nicole started NYU film school having never seen an R rated movie and only 1.5 PG-13 films (she grew up a community that censored media). While in undergrad, for her first feature documentary, Nicole turned the camera on her own community for BIBLE QUIZ, a coming-of-age doc about the evangelical sport of Bible memory. BIBLE QUIZ won the Slamdance Grand Jury Award (and 9 other Grand Jury festival awards), played on Netflix, theatrically in seven cities at Alamo Drafthouse movie theaters, on Kanopy, on the Sundance Channel Global in 20+ countries, and was selected for the US State Department’s “American Film Showcase”. Hollywood Reporter called it "instantly lovable" and the LA Times said it was “Smart, funny, and disarming”. Nicole followed that beat and is in post-production on her second feature documentary, BULLETPROOF STOCKINGS, about the first all-female Hasidic rock band. It won the Doc-a-chusetts Pitch, LEF Moving Image grant and Cambridge art grants, and was a finalist at Fork Films and Chicken & Egg. Nicole also makes documentary shorts and series. THE WRITER exhibited at 2015 Viennale and over 50 international galleries and museums as a part of Harun’s Farocki’s “Labour in A Single Shot”. Her branded docu-series COMMUNAL FUTURES about collectives with The Collective featured a queer mosque, a makerspace, and an ecovillage. Nicole has also worked with The HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post) and Bloomberg News Video. Her narrative film script PUBLIC POOL was selected for the Berlin Film Festival Short Film Station and also won 5 film festival screenplay awards including Best of at the Pheonix Film Festival & Sacramento Film Festival. She's been an artist in residence at Virginia Creative Center for the Arts, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, Arts Kibbutz, and collaborated with the MIT Media Lab. She's a member of Film Fatales, and Diverse Filmmakers Alliance.
Feature Doc in Post-Production. Winner of the Salem Film Festival's Doc-a-chusetts Pitch, LEF Moving Image grant, Cambridge art grants, and finalist at Fork Films and Chicken & Egg. Invited to Points North Institute through LEF.
Slamdance winning feature doc on Netflix, Sundance Channel Global, 7-city theatrical release at Alamo Drafthouses, selected for American Film Showcase BIBLE QUIZ follows seventeen-year-old Mikayla Irle as she memorizes books of the Bible on her quest to win the National Bible Quiz Championship and the heart of JP, her quiz team captain. The film explores coming of age in the face of faith, doubt, fierce competition, sexuality and teen love. It is director Nicole Teeny’s first feature length documentary. Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Documentary – Slamdance Festival Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary – United Film Festival San Francisco Best Documentary – Big Muddy Film Festival Audience Award – Big Muddy Film Festival Silver SpIFFy Award for Documentary – Spokane International Film Festival Nominated for Best Documentary – Churches Making Movies Film Festival Local Audience Award – Tacoma Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Popcorn Award – Chagrin Documentary Film Festival Most Promising Filmmaker Award – Spokane International Film Festival Artist Trust Award Award/Grant Tacoma Arts Commission Grant
Parody TED talks hosted by webcomic Zach Weinersmith (SMBC) MIT in Cambridge. I created the videos (produced, shot, edited, etc.) and lighting design for the event.
“Communal Futures” is a short docu-series produced with The Collective about radically sharing communities. EP01. Imam El-Farouk and his husband Troy co-founded Unity Mosque, one of the world's first Queer-affirming and gender-equal mosques in Toronto after having to hide their relationship while making the Hajj. 6 min EP02. “EcoVillage Ithaca” is the largest EcoVillage in the US and largest co-housing community in the world. Founder and ecoactivist Liz hands-off management of the communal community to Nathan, the next manager. 3 min EP03. After their studio was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, Scott and DB created a radically-sharing artist community and the largest MakerSpace in NY on Staten Island. 4 min.
Hired to direct a TV Pilot for TAG studios / Lifetime TV.
Video Editor for HuffPost (one of many projects edited for HuffPost)
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