Nicole Delprado

NICOLE DELPRADO is a Western Sydney based screenwriter and director. Her one-shot horror film, BAD VIBRATIONS, premiered at Flickerfest 2024 and is part of the Flickerfest Australian Tour. She is currently writing her feature directing debut, STUNNERS; an action horror comedy  that was shortlisted for AACTA Pitch: Mother, and is now in development with Lake Martin Films and supported by Screen Australia and Screenwest. She is a Finalist in the 2023 PAGE international screenwriting awards.

Recently, she co-wrote an unannounced feature length project for Wildheart Films and was writer and director on the Screen Australia funded online series SHIPPERS. In 2021-22 she worked as a Development Producer at Flying Bark Productions. In 2019, she was one of Screen Producers Australia’s ‘Ones to Watch’.

Nicole has been twice longlisted for the AWG’s John Hinde Award for excellence in Science Fiction writing. Previously, she was shortlisted for the NCIS:Sydney script department program and the SBS emerging writers initiative. She was a top 10 finalist in the Animal Logic Feature competition in 2020. Her sci-fi horror screenplay MINUS GREEN was a Finalist in the Stage32 New Blood Thriller Competition and with this, Nicole was selected as a writer and director for the Attagirl feature film lab.

In 2019, her short film MAGNETIC, executive produced by Matchbox Pictures, premiered at Sydney Film Festival and on ABC iview. In 2020, Nicole received ABC fresh start funding for her climate-activist comedy series. Prior to this, she was a writer, director and producer of the award-winning web series SYDNEY SLEUTHERS.

Nicole loves to write across horror, sci-fi, action and children’s including both live-action and animated projects. Outside of filmmaking, she is an advocate for invisible disability who lives for her next travel adventure and is a highly qualified gymnastics coach.