Talent Guide

Nicole Perlman

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Directing Lab 2020

Bio

Nicole Perlman is best known for having co-written the Marvel Studios’ blockbusters Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel. Nicole graduated from Tisch in 2003, and has since gone on to win the Tribeca Film Festival’s Sloan Foundation Grant for Science in Film, the Hugo Award, and the Ray Bradbury award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. Nicole’s short science fiction film, The Slows, was named a Festival Favorite by Vanity Fair after premiering at the New York Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. It premiered this month as a Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere. Nicole is a Cinereach Directing Fellow and a Creative Advisor for the Sundance Labs.

Current Project

Our Own Devices

Logline

In the 22nd century, an artificially-intelligent SmartHome prides itself on taking proper care of its Owner -- despite the fact that she (along with all of humanity) have long-since perished. Then one day a mysterious trespasser breaks into the hermetically-sealed house, in search of food, shelter, and the hope of human connection.