Nicole Taylor-Roberts
410 STAMPED
NICE SHOES Post production (color) Grant
About the project: 410 Stamped is a short film shot in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women about a young singer who finds the magic of her voice on one wild night. Starring Eden Duncan-Smith (See You Yesterday, Roxanne Roxanne).
About the filmmaker: Featured in Free the Work's Creator Spotlight/Directors to Watch, Essence Studios Black Femme Directors Showcase, FADER, and GQ, Nicole Taylor-Roberts is a director - writer and native Baltimorean. She got her professional start apprenticing with film and commercial directors at Smuggler and Tool of North America in the early 2000s. She participated in the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directing Program, American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, NALIP's Diverse Women in Media Directing Workshop, and the Commercial Diverse Directors Mentorship 50/50 Program. She directs, writes, and produces film, television, commercials, and branded content. Her award-winning shorts have collectively screened at prestigious film festivals, including Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sundance, Cannes, San Diego Film Festival, Urbanworld, and showcases by HBO Latino.
She wrote and directed a short for BET Her's anthology series, The Waiting Room. Her short, The Battle of Lexi Smith, (starring Keshia Knight-Pulliam, Tequilla Whitfield, and Jean Elie). Her feature screenplay A Girl from Haiti won the Grand Prize in the We Screenplay Diverse Voices Competition, supported by ARRAY! Nikki also moonlights as a political campaign writer; she wrote for several campaigns, including the Biden-Harris Presidential campaign, and wrote and creative produced the "Reclaim Your Vote" 2020 campaign — a social initiative by BET, The National Urban League, and When We All Vote.
Her latest film, 410 STAMPED, starred Eden Duncan Smith (See You Yesterday) and was made possible with support from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation. Taylor-Roberts is an alumna of both Northwestern University Radio/Television/Film Program and Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Film Program.