BIO
About Nicole Mairose Dizon
Nicole Mairose Dizon is an LA-based first-generation Filipina-American writer, director, and award-winning producer from Baldwin Park, CA. Her love for storytelling began at a young age when she acted in gospel reenactments at church and took art classes in various mediums. As the oldest and only daughter of a divorced bookkeeper and former smog technician, her Filipinx-centric work explores social issues and themes of class with elements of thriller and surrealism.
At the University of California, Irvine, she was 1 of 34 seniors selected for the Chancellor’s Award of Distinction out of 8,000 graduates for her leadership in key involvements and service to the university. After she graduated Cum Laude with a Film & Media Studies B.A., she worked for Apple TV+, ICM, and Scott Free. Dizon was promoted from Writers' Production Assistant to Showrunner’s Assistant on Amazon's Blade Runner 2099. In 2022, she was featured in Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Crew for Filipino American History Month.
She is a 2021 Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellow and an Individual Artist Fellow for the inaugural California Arts Council Fellowship. She wrote and directed Morena, a magical realism short about an insecure folk artist who races against time to reverse the terrifying side effects of supernatural skin whitening cream. Morena opened Gold House and UTA’s Filipino/x American History Month Independent Filmmakers Showcase in October 2023 and premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2022. The film was nominated for a Jury Award at the inaugural Yale Summer Cabaret: Summer of Love Film Festival and Best Short Film at the Yucca Valley Film Festival.
As a Producer for Film Independent’s 2021 Project Involve Cohort, she produced Dear Mama... and The Mason Ring. Dear Mama… premiered at SXSW 2022, was awarded a Special Mention for Drama by the Aspen ShortsFest Jury, and won Outstanding Short-Form (Live Action) at the 54th NAACP Image Awards. It is currently available on The New Yorker and Short of the Week. The Mason Ring won HBO Max’s 2022 Best Short Film Competition at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival.
She’s a member of GRAMMY U, the Recording Academy’s community of emerging creatives and professionals in music. While waiting for her short for the a 2025 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award and Ruya (a short about a T’boli dreamweaver) to premiere, she’s writing her first feature. When Dizon’s not working, she loves hiking, music production, baseball (Go Dodgers!), F1 and Duolingo (not sponsored…yet).