Nicole Palo

Filmmaker and Screenwriter

Brussels, Belgium

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About Nicole

NICOLE PALO was born in 1977 in the USA. She is Belgian and American. After graduating from the University of Brussels with majors in Journalism and Scriptwriting, she studied in Denmark at the European Film College, where she directed several short films in digital format.

In 2005, she directed the short film Anna ne sait pas (Anna doesn’t know), shot on Super-16mm.

In 2008, she won the micro-budget feature film contest organised by Cinéastes Associés, supported by ARTE and the Belgian French community. She directed Get Born from the script she wrote on the theme ‘Being 20’. The film, broadcast on ARTE in April 2009, was released on DVD under the label Actes Belges.

She wrote and directed the feature film comedy Emma Peeters, produced by Take Five (Belgium) and Possibles Média (Canada). It was the closing film at the Giornate Degli Autori 2018 (Venice Festival). She won the Best Director award at the 2019 Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival with a jury presided by Emir Kusturica.

She also works as an expert for the MEDIA Programme of the European Union (Creative Europe), as consultant and script doctor for several production companies and gives a feature scriptwriting masterclass in Brussels.

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Nicole Palo If you cannot do what you love, you can love what you do… and just simply love.

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Emma Peeters (2018)
Film by Nicole Palo, Prod. : Take Five (BE), Possibles Media (CA) (Comedy) Scriptwriter & Director An actress plans to commit suicide to finally make something of her life and meets a funeral parlor employee who proposes to help her… for better or for worse. Synopsis Emma Peeters will soon be 35 and has yet to accomplish something. After years of hardship in Paris in trying to become an actress, an idea strikes her fancy: bringing her days to an end in a week’s time, on her birthday. In the process Emma meets Alex Bodart, a fanciful funeral home employee who will help her in her reckless endeavor. By dint of hard work to hide their respective feelings, it seems they may succeed in bringing about Emma’s final objective... Festivals Giornate Degli Autori, closing film (Venice, IT) – 2018 Cinemania, pre-opening film (Montreal, CA) – 2018 Festival du Film d’Arras (FR) – 2018 Festival international du Film Francophone de Stuttgart-Tübingen (DE) – 2018 Tournai Ramdam Festival, closing film (BE) – 2019 Göteborg Film Festival (SE) – 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (US) – 2019 Monte-Carlo Film Festival de la comédie, Best Director (Monaco) – 2019 Festival du cinéma belge de Moustier (BE) – 2019 Chicago European Union Film Festival (US) – 2019 Festival du Film Francophone de Grèce, Athens (GR) - 2019 Seattle International Film Festival (US) - 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) - 2019 Raindance Film Festival, focus on Emerging Women Director from the EU (UK) - 2019 Theatrical release : Canada - November 2018 ; Belgium - April 2019 ; France - October 2019
Eliot (2013)
Film Set decorator
Marieke, Marieke (2010)
Film Casting department
Get Born (2008)
Film (Drama) Scriptwriter & Director Standing on the edge of a rooftop, Gregory ponders the precariousness of life. He is 20 and feels like a stranger to himself. He wonders how he can live without dreams or desires. One day, he sees Liv, another college sophomore, and falls secretly and utterly in love with her. When he finally dares to declare his love, he finds himself up against a wall. Liv does not know him. Twenty-year-old Liv loses her virginity to Ilia, an older Russian army deserter. She experiences her first love and treasures every minute. But all too soon, Ilia's past creeps back into his life and unravels their union. One day, he leaves her without a word. She will have to live with the same intolerable loneliness that she unwittingly inflicted on Gregory.
Anna ne sait pas (2006)
Film by Nicole Palo. Prod. : mdw productions (Comedy) Scriptwriter & Director Bits and pieces of a young woman’s love life Anna is lost. She is unhappy with Stéphane and can’t find the words to tell him. She feels good with Ben, but is she in love? And is he sincere? When Anna meets Alex, she notices that he wears the same shoes as the other two. If there was a coherence after all… Anna tries out, moves ahead. You never know…