Brief Bio

Nicole Betancourt is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and installation artist whose work explores the relationships that bind people to one another and to the natural world. Rooted in personal experience, her films and installations weave intimate stories with broader ecological and spiritual questions.

Over the past three decades, her practice has evolved from broadcast documentaries to documentary installations. Recent projects include The Unfixing—an interconnected body of work spanning a feature documentary, site-specific installations, and workshops—and The Entanglement, an evolving film and installation inspired by mythology and ecology.

Her work has been presented on HBO, PBS, The Weather Channel, HuffPost, international television, and exhibited in galleries, festivals, and community spaces internationally. She is an Emmy Award recipient, a Donella Meadows Sustainability Leaders Network Fellow, and has served on nonprofit boards, festival juries, and funding panels. Born and raised in New York City, her recent work has grown through collaborations with artists, designers, and craftspeople from diverse disciplines.

Portrait of a middle-aged woman with gray hair against a brown background.

Brief Bio

My work is driven by a desire to explore the ways humans are entangled with the rest of the living world. I want to explore how art-making can become a ritual for becoming whole – for myself and the people who engage with it.