Nicole Otero is an artist and filmmaker. Her directorial narrative debut, Slip, was acquired by DEDZA/Kino Lorber, as part of a collection highlighting emerging and underrepresented directors. Slip was featured on the Criterion Channel from 2021-24. Otero’s next film, When There Was Water, premiered at BAM in New York. She is a recipient of the 2022 NALIP Latino Lens grant for her latest film Wait For Night, a spiritual proof of concept for her forthcoming feature project in development.
Otero received a 2023 California Arts Council’s Emerging Artist grant. In 2024, she was a recipient of a MacDowell Artist Fellowship, a DiTrapano Foundation for Literature & the Arts Residency, and The Creative Residency at Bloedel Reserve. With a practice that spans writing, directing and editing, Otero is interested in a haptic cinema. Through an emphasis on sound and perspective, she is searching for embodied experiences in film.
In addition to her work as a director, Otero edited the feature films The African Desperate and co-edited on The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire. She has edited several films for major museum exhibitions, including MoMA, The Whitney, The MET, the Hammer Museum, and more. Otero was a writer of Civic, an award-winning short film which played IFFR and New Directors/New Films in 2023.
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