Nicole Pott
Directing
Biography
Meet Nicole, a visionary filmmaker whose unique perspective has graced the screen for over a decade. Her impressive portfolio includes the 2023 BAFTA longlisted short film “WanderLand”, which is now in development to be a feature film with Old Hall Films and Genera Films. Her other 8 short films include “Kaleidoscope”, which was nominated at Film The House in 2019 for the DirectorsUK Directors Award, as well as the award-winning films “Powerless” and “Asphyxiate”. In summer 2023, Nicole directed the high-budget folk horror short “Progeny”, starring Sukey Willis (I Used to be Famous), Ellie James (The Winter King) and Karen Connell (Vikings). The film is in late post-production and is due for festival release in 2024. Nicole is in development for four features, which includes “Maiden, Mother, Crone” (WanderLand feature) and an unannounced feature. She is also a novelist, writing under the pen name Charlotte Bedgood (ode to her grandparents), which includes her debut novel “The Dawn of the Lightning Goddess”, the first in a series of 6 novels.
Known For
A desperate writer signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer's block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.
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Still is a 5min dark zombie comedy that tells the story of 'Statue', a living statue entertainer caught up in the middle of a zombie outbreak. He finds himself frozen in fear whilst everyone around him flees or dies at the hands of the attacking zombie horde. Left alone by the unknowing zombies in an large open square surrounded on all sides he has to rely on his amazing ability to stand very still to try work out a way to survive his ordeal.
Still
Alka is forced to confront the past and her dark power when she finds herself in the presence of two solitary witches.
Progeny
At twelve, for Ellie, it’s easy to be a dreamer and less easy to ignore the harsh realities as the only Black kid at school.
2k5
Three weeks prior to the biggest fight of her life, a young female boxer is left broken after tragedy floors her aspirations.
Powerless
An ambitious radio project is set up to give their listeners one last wish before the year is out.
In a Year
A young woman tries to gasp for air as she drowns in the memories of a tainted relationship.
Asphyxiate
Charlie follows a solitary man, living in a caravan, whose life is interrupted when a girl comes knocking at his door.
Charlie
As his father's health rapidly declines, Tom returns home to face a family he has learned to keep at arm's length. Over the course of a single day, quiet moments, half heard conversations, and unspoken truths surface as Tom, his family, and the palliative care team navigate the fragile space between hope and acceptance. Struggling to communicate what matters most, Tom must confront the weight of what he has never said, and what time may no longer allow him to say. Set against the intimate backdrop of a working class family in Stoke-on-Trent, Between Breath and Silence explores love, loss, and the complexities of communication when words fall short.
Between Breath & Silence
A young girl attempts to navigate the sea front on the search of her missing alcoholic mother over one night.