Nicola Jane Black (born in Glasgow) is a Scottish film and television producer and director.[1] Her work includes the documentaries Designer Vaginas, Bone Breakers, When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett, Tribal Cop, White Jazz, Jenny Saville – Flesh & Blood and the series Mirrorball and Banned in the UK which featured in the Channel 4 Banned season.
Nicola Black | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nicola Jane Black Glasgow, Scotland |
| Occupation(s) | TV director Film director Television director Film producer |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Website | http://www.blackwatchmedia.co.uk/ |
Black is also the producer of Channel 4's Mesh animation scheme, producing digital animations including Covert, Daddy, Killing Time at Home and Watermelon Love.
Biography
editBorn in Glasgow, Black began her career as a trainee editor working on Derek Jarman's film Caravaggio, before moving on to television with Halfway to Paradise.
In 1995 she established her production company, Blackwatch Media.[2][1] The company's first production was the documentary White Jazz about crime writer James Ellroy's search for his mother's murderer. She went on to produce and direct the Channel 4 series Post Mortem, broadcast in 1997, about genius and illness, examining the lives and works of Beethoven, Virginia Woolf, Nijinsky, Montgomery Clift and Francis Bacon.[1][3]
In the late 1990s, she produced and directed the pop-promo series Mirrorball, featuring profiles on Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, Roman Coppola, Michel Gondry and Dawn Shadforth.
Black directed and produced several documentaries for Channel 4, including Designer Vaginas (2002), Bone Breakers (2002), When Freddie Met Kenny (2002), Snorting Coke with the BBC[4] (2003), Banned in the UK and Banned Films, the latter presented by Tim Roth (2005), both were shown as part of the Channel 4 Banned season – which Black co-devised.[5]
Since 2001 Black ran and produced the Channel 4 digital animation scheme Mesh, producing four digital animations a year.[6]
In 2007 Black produced Potapych: The Bear Who Loved Vodka, which won a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Animated Film.[7][8]
In 2012 Black produced UNESCO award-winning photographer David Gillander's film The Neglected for the Channel 4 series The Shooting Gallery.[9][10]
References
edit- ^ a b c "The Torturous Path to Immortality", The Herald, 4 October 1997, retrieved 13 August 2011
- ^ "Office opens US doors for television", The Scotsman, 21 February 2004, retrieved 20 February 2011
- ^ "Independence Day", The Sunday Herald, 25 August 2002, retrieved 13 August 2011
- ^ "BBC presenters' cocaine abuse scrutinised on Channel 4", The Scotsman, 23 July 2003, retrieved 20 February 2011
- ^ "Scottish independent to produce TV special on official censorship", Sunday Herald, 23 January 2005, retrieved 20 February 2011
- ^ "Digital film-makers hope for animated response", The Scotsman, 11 November 2001, retrieved 20 February 2011
- ^ "The King of the Baftas", Evening Times, 19 November 2007, retrieved 3 February 2011
- ^ "Last King of Scotland and Rebus shine at BAFTA Awards", Scottish Screen, 19 November 2007, retrieved 20 February 2011
- ^ Channel 4 launches new hour-long shorts strand The Shooting Gallery, Channel 4, 7 March 2012, retrieved 27 May 2015
- ^ "The Neglected: David Gillander's heartbreaking film on the street children of Ukraine", Dangerous Minds, 14 March 2012, retrieved 27 May 2015