Nicole Salazar is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist based out of New York. For over a decade she has worked on creative nonfiction films, quick-turn news and long-form investigative documentaries. She also collaborates on print and multimedia projects.
Nicole was a Creator, Producer, and Co-Director of the critically acclaimed docuseries PHILLY D.A. (PBS/Independent Lens/Topic). The series follows the election and first years in office of District Attorney Larry Krasner, and is an 8-hour deep dive into policing, prosecution, and the municipal government of Philadelphia, one of the most incarcerated cities in the United States. The series was honored with a Peabody Award “for making bureaucratic problems wholly engrossing,” as well as a Gotham Award, a duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, and the Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction Film, among others. The series was called “a landmark in documentary filmmaking” (AFI), and “the second coming of The Wire in docuseries form.” Learn more about the series, including press, awards, and impact here.
As a Video Journalist at the New York Times, Nicole covered migration and other stories. She received a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York for coverage of abortion access after the reversal of Roe, and was a Finalist for a Picture of the Year Award for coverage of labor abuses of migrant workers in Qatar, and an Online Journalism Award for coverage of a deadly fire in a migrant shelter in Juárez, Mexico. Previously she worked at Fault Lines on Al Jazeera, where she Produced and Directed half a dozen films on immigration, pretrial detention, the subprime mortgage crisis, post-genocide Guatemala, Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, and Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. She was a Multimedia Producer at the TV/Radio program Democracy Now!, during the 2008 financial crisis and throughout continued coverage of the War on Terror and U.S. militarism.
She currently is working on a documentary about the 24/7 Asylum-Seeker Arrival Center in New York City, known as the “new Ellis Island.”
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