Nicole Vinnola is an Emmy award winning producer, with a focus on real stories and real people.

Nicole began her career in journalism working for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and has since crafted 150+ hours of television content for networks like National Geographic, History, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Style, TruTV among others. She won a NATAS Emmy in 1997, and then in 2011, she earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for the Style Network show, How Do I Look? Her first short film, “The Bridge,” was produced as part of Film Independent’s Project: Involve, and premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival then went on to gain recognition at LGBT festivals around the country.

Recently, Nicole launched a boutique production company and secured her first development deal with Discovery Studios for an original Latino car customizing show. In between developing her own show ideas and characters, Nicole is frequently hired by production companies to further develop their own content; a shoe customizing show for Red Bull, and a show about psychics for TLC are a few of her latest projects. Nicole is a fluent collaborator and frequently consults on projects in various phases of development, production or post.

Nicole is focusing her efforts on film in 2017 as she moves forward to the prep phase of a feature film she co-wrote and will produce on the subject of motherhood and women transitioning out of prison. Accompanying the feature film will be a documentary series called All The Little Things, which chronicles the impact of incarceration on children from a child’s point of view.

This Spring she will be Directing her first short film, “Damnit, Nightingale,” a comedic homage to her life as a reality-television producer.