Nicola Black was born in Glasgow, and is a Scottish film and television producer and director. Her work falls mainly with Channel 4, producing and directing documentaries and short films for the Channel 4 'Banned' season.
She began her career as a trainee editor, and has worked her way to setting up her own production company, Blackwatch Media in 1995. Her first production was a documentary on the crime writer James Ellroy's search for his mother's murderer, White Jazz.
In the early 2000's, Black produced and directed a series of documentaries for Channel 4 including 'Designer Vaginas' (2002), 'Bone Breakers' (2002), 'When Freddie Met Kenny' (2002), 'Snorting Coke With The BBC' (2003), Banned in the UK and Banned Films.
Since 2001, she ran and produced Channel 4's digital animation scheme Mesh, producing four digital animations a year.
In 2007, Black produced Potapych: The Bear Who Loved Vodka, which won a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Animated Film.
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