Nicole Chi is a Costa Rican-Chinese writer, director, and producer, currently based in Costa Rica. Nicole graduated from Mass Communication with an emphasize in Audiovisual Production from the University of Costa Rica, and holds an MFA in Film and Media Production from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a Fulbright Fellow.
She’s been recognized with awards like the Director's Guild of America’s Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for her short film COMADRE and the AFS’s Texas New Voices Grant for her first feature length documentary GUIÁN. She’s a 2024 Princess Grace Award winner.
Her first feature length documentary GUIÁN, a very personal project about her grandmother, and her Asian-Latino identity; was awarded a Special Mention at Visions du Réel (2023) in the Burning Lights Competition.
Her most recent short film, LOS MOSQUITOS, premiered at SXSW (2024) in the Narrative Shorts Competition, and has earned awards like the Best Latina Director at LALIFF (2024).
Her work has been selected in festivals like Telluride, New Orleans Film Festival, BOGOSHORTS, SSFF & ASIA and Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse.
Nicole is currently in development of her first narrative feature film.