A Las Vegas native, Nikki spent her early career in feature film development in Los Angeles, with stints at Twentieth Century Fox and Michael Douglas’s company at Paramount. She began producing and writing independently with a focus on documentary film with her business, Life-Portraits. Nikki founded NWFFest in 2014 after a student club project took off.
Besides working on WIF Nevada projects year-round, Nikki is a Visiting Assistant Professor at UNLV’s School of Cinematic Arts. She has previously taught both Film and English classes at the College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State University. She holds a BS in Film from Boston University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sierra Nevada College (now UNR Tahoe).
