Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Television Production at Hofstra University. She has recently made her narrative feature directorial debut with TITLE VII, a film on the rarely discussed subject of same-race discrimination in the workplace. TITLE VII was the 2017 Jurors Choice of the Women of African Descent Film Festival, the 2017 Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival HBO sponsored Best Feature Nominee and the 2017 St. Louis International Film Festival Emerging Director Award Nominee. Nicole is also the recipient of the 2017 Reel Sisters of the African Diaspora Lifetime Achievement Award. Her other directing credits include the multi-award winning documentary The Double Dutch Divas!, Journeys In Black: the Jamie Foxx Biography, Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne Brown, and the 10-chapter series Little Brother. For nineteen years, her company EPIPHANY Inc. has produced independent films for numerous cable networks including Showtime, BET, IFC, Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel and kweliTV. In 28 years of news video editing she has worked on several Emmy Award-winning teams including CBS Sunday Morning, where during her tenure she and the team received three Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards. Nicole’s affiliations include Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA East), The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), Film Fatales NYC and New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT).