Nicole Viloria is a Venezuelan writer-director whose work explores her queer journey, love tragedies, and Venezuelan roots. After immigrating to Miami at 15, she earned her A.A. in English Literature at Miami Dade Honors College and now studies Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film at Yale University.

 

She works as the assistant to showrunner and writer Aaron Cooley (The First Lady on Showtime).

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She currently serves as Co-Executive Director of Diverso, a student-run 501(c)3 nonprofit that uplifts underrepresented student filmmakers, whose partners include SONY, Sundance, and Disney. She has also served as a development intern at Narval Films and Baobab Studios, where she assisted with staffing writers for a show slated for Disney+.

 

Her directorial debut, Paper Dreams, screened at Yale’s Student Film Festival and won Best Cinematography at the Ezra Stiles Film Festival. Pichi, her second short film, is in pre-production.