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Nicole Docta is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has focused her career on socially impactful projects and BIPOC stories. She offers her unique lens as a Korean-American transnational, transracial adoptee raised in Wisconsin. Nicole Co-Produced the Emmy-nominated AS GOES JANESVILLE (Independent Lens 2013) and was the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator for the Emmy Award-winning IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST (Sundance 2015). She Associate Produced the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated THE JUDGE (TIFF, DOC NYC, IDFA 2017), which aired on Independent Lens in 2019. She is a Producer on Emmy Award-winning BELLY OF THE BEAST (HRWFF 2020) Directed by Erika Cohn and Co-Producer on the duPont Award-winner THROUGH THE NIGHT (Tribeca 2020) by Director Loira Limbal. Her latest work includes her directorial debut, ADOPTING, a feature length film supported by CAAM and the Utah Film Center. Recognizing that all adoptions start with a trauma, ADOPTING explores the systemic changes needed in the big business of adoption in the wake of the Roe v. Wade reversal. Nicole explores what tools are available for parents adopting children of color after cutting ties with her own adoptive parents. Learning from adult adoptees, ADOPTING will reframe adoption from “saving a child” to “fulfilling a need to parent.” Nicole is energized by helping others achieve their goals and creating change. She managed the impact campaigns for BELLY OF THE BEAST which helped pass reparations for survivors of state sterilizations in California and THROUGH THE NIGHT whose legislative screenings led to a $1.4 billion commitment for childcare in the New York State budget.