Nicola Black

Nicola Black is a BAFTA award-winning film-maker. She is an executive producer, producer and director for Channel 4 and the BBC. She is Managing Director of Blackwatch Media Ltd.

Works

Covert

In a covert listing station an operative picks up a telephone conversation between someone he suspects is an agent and someone called mother. He follows their communication and intercepts another message about cakes and candles. However has he stumbled upon a plot of major importance or just something innocent?

Release Date2002-11-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Banned in the UK

Banned in the UK

Four-part series demonstrating different kinds of censorship, such as censorship by the government or of art.

Release Date2005-03-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Invasion

A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The shepherd though, doesn't seem that bothered and is happy just to see where it goes.

Release Date2005-10-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Welcome to Glaringly

Grant Orchards impressive independent film debut details a slightly sinister set of situations which reveal both truth, misunderstanding and the consequences thereof... A film for our times.

Release Date2003-11-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Caroline Walker - Women's Work

We follow the internationally renowned Scottish artist Caroline Walker over four years as she makes large-scale paintings representing the unseen, often undervalued, aspects of women’s labour - from hospitals to hotels, nail bars to nursery settings. Walker’s paintings reveal the invisible labour that shapes women’s lives, from housework to caregiving to creative production. Weaving together footage from Walker’s studio, her family life and interviews with the female subjects of her paintings, we question the role that art can play in depicting the social politics of reproductive labour, nurture and care for the next generation. Following Walker through pregnancy and the birth of her second child, we explore her role of the ‘artist mother’. Through privileged access to the artist’s life and work, the film reveals how motherhood has shaped Walker’s approach, while acknowledging the importance of her own mother, Janet, in inspiring and supporting her creativity.

Release Date2026-03-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer