Nikki Cole is an award-winning writer, producer, and director. Formerly a choreographer and theater director, she transitioned into film production and circled the globe with her 11-year old daughter. They created the PBS and Vision TV documentary WANDERINGS: A JOURNEY TO CONNECT, exploring strange and unusual Jewish communities from Korea to Iceland to India. She was the Series Producer/director of the docu-drama You…Me & the Kids for WTN and produced films for Vancouver’s Pacific Space Centre, the King Abdulaziz Historical Centre in Saudi Arabia, and was production manager for Simex’s Motion Simulator Ride films including MARS and SEATREK. After a career as a writer/producer/director/story producer of over 15 factual series, she expanded into scripted entertainment, directing two episodes of THE NEXT STEP for BBC Kids, and an award-winning dramatic BravoFACT short, MY FATHER, JOE (Amazon Prime) adapted from a story by Jack Engelhard (INDECENT PROPOSAL. Her pilot script for the historical fiction series Serpent Queen won Best Pilot Screenplay at the Oaxaca Film Festival and her feature The Bride’s Wedding won Best Screenplay at the Jogja Int’l Film Festival in Indonesia. She was selected as one of 20 producers worldwide to be a "Producer to Watch" at MIPTV in Cannes.