Nicola Black

Unable to accept that she doesn't want to see him anymore, Joe threatens to shoot himself in the head at his ex-lover's apartment door, but is not expecting her to then attack him.

White Jazz, Nicola Black’s highly acclaimed documentary, follows cult crime writer James Ellroy’s quest to find his mother’s murderer. Ellroy takes the viewer on a visceral journey through the streets of Los Angeles as he re-opens the files of his own mother’s brutal killing in the 1950s.