Nicole Betancourt  

Nicole Betancourt is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker celebrated for her ability to merge the personal and the political in emotionally impactful stories. Her debut documentary, BEFORE YOU GO (HBO), about her father’s death from AIDS, garnered multiple awards, including an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Documentary and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Betancourt has continued to work at the intersection of social issues and personal stories, producing and directing films such as 90 MILES (POV/PBS), SING THE WATER SONG, and shorts that highlight environmental and social justice issues. She is also the former Executive Director of MediaRights, a nonprofit organization dedicated to media for social change, where she produced the award-winning Media That Matters Film Festival and the first online outreach toolkit for filmmakers. She is a Sustainability Leaders Network Fellow, a Kellogg Food and Community Fellow, and served on the Emmy awards jury, New York State Council of the Arts panel, and the New York Women in Film & Television board.