NICOLETTE DASKALAKIS
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    • Cantiq LA
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    • Harbor Freight Tools
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    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
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  • main
  • film // narrative
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • film // art
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
    • landscapes are like crowds
  • photography
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • skinny pretty sexy
    • our bedroom
    • queer love
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
    • los angeles vegetation
    • miscellaneous
    • travel
  • other mediums
    • collage
    • on fire
    • whoops!
    • the birthday album
    • youtube channel
  • commercial work
    • Album Covers
    • BuzzFeed
    • BuzzFeed - Nifty
    • Cantiq LA
    • Gingerly Witty
    • Harbor Freight Tools
    • HelloGiggles
    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
    • Paramount
    • Shagbagg
    • Swaje
    • Tiny Bangs
    • Topology Eyewear
    • Vegamour
  • poetry
  • CV
  • about
  • contact
nicolette daskalakis

EDUCATION                   
Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse, MA Fine Arts, Expected completion 2023
University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, B.A. Film & TV Production 

University of Southern California, Roski School of Art & Design, Minor Intermedia Arts


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Video Producer
Freelance   2015 - Present
Direct, produce, shoot, style, and edit digital video content and photography for clients, including L'Oréal, Paramount, Univision, HelloGiggles, Vegamour, Moon Juice, and various independent artists. 

Video Fellow
BuzzFeed   2016
Direct, design, shoot, and edit video content for BuzzFeed Video's beauty/style channel and DIY channel. 

Art Director / Production Designer
Freelance   2012 - 2015

Design and build sets for a range of content (including short films, narrative shows, fashion editorials, and events); create and oversee the execution of cohesive vision and tone in line with the project and/or client goals. 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Lieu-Common, "Néon", Toulouse, France. 
2021 Pence Gallery, "Slice: A Juried Exhibit of Regional Art",
 Davis, CA, USA.
2020 Site: Brooklyn, “Gesture & Motion”, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

2020 Shockboxx Gallery, “Love Hurts”, Hermosa Beach, CA, USA.
2020 Envision Arts, “Script II”, Texas, USA.
2019 Palazzo Michiel, “WAV Venice”, Venice, Italy.
2019 Non De Gen, “I Am Woman”, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2014 Sweet Art Collective, “Guilty Pleasures”, London, United Kingdom.
2014 Arroyo Park, “Re-Imagining the Arroyo”, Pasadena, CA, USA.
2014 Fisher Museum of Art, “Annual Student Exhibition“, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2014 USC SCA Gallery, “Cinematic and Media-based Installations”, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 
2013 The Vortex Dome, “State of the Arts: Future of Full Dome Festival”, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2013 Fisher Museum of Art, “Annual Student Exhibition”, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

2012 Fisher Museum of Art, “The One and the Many”, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2011 University Gateway, “Superhighway”, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2009 Mada Shell Gallery, “Postcard Show“, Ashland, OR, USA.
2007 Mama’s Royal Café, “Napkin Art”, Oakland, CA, USA.

2007 Davis Community Center, RISE Recycled Art, Davis, CA, USA.      
 
 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Outrage, Washington, D.C., USA.
   
PUBLICATIONS                  
"Los Angeles Vegetation", The Hand Magazine; Issue 31; Jan 2021.
"No Diving", The Racket, Issue 16; Jul 20, 2020. 
“Tiny Bangs”, The New York Times; Nov 25, 2019.

“enny + koji”, “me + u”, Loves Me Zine; Feb, 2019. 
“Eat Me”, Rattle; Dec, 2018.
“me + u”, Dum Dum Zine; Feb, 2018.

“The Housewife Discovers Silence”, Leopardskin & Limes; Jan 2016. 
   
    
SELECTED HONORS + AWARDS
2020 Honorable Mention “Skinny Pretty Sexy”, Script II, Envision Arts.
2019 Director’s Choice, “Flower Boys (Joshan)”, 30 Under 30 Exhibition, Viridian Artists. 
2017 Grand Prize, “Shoot”, SAC International Fashion Film Festival.
2013 Best Production Design, “Heart to Heart”, Southern California Business Film Festival. 
2010 “Your Shot” Winner, “Navigating Versailles”, National Geographic.
2010 AP Scholar, top score in Studio Art, Art History, and Comparative Literature. 
2009 California Arts Scholar, California State Summer School for the Arts. 

2007 First Place, “Cookie Purse”, Davis RISE Recycled Art.
2007 Honorable Mention, “Feed Me Mama”, Mama’s Royal Café Annual Napkin Art Competition. 


RESIDENCIES
Kennedy Gallery - Sacramento, CA, USA.
June 2021 - August 2021
Artist Residency

Studio Faire - Nérac, France
April 2019
Artist Residency


SELECTED WORKSHOPS

Neon Art Workshop
- Paris, France (Lycée Dorian)
February to March 2022 (2 weeks total)
Instructors: Denis Lambert, Christophe Denier, Sami Gnaba

Alliance of Women Director's, Longform Directing
- 
Los Angeles, CA, USA
December 2019 to January 2019
Instructor: Jennifer Warren


Spoken Literature Art Movement - Los Angeles, CA, USA. ​
July 2018 to September 2018
Instructors: Alyesha Wise & Matthew "Cuban" Hernandez"
Guest lecturers: Yesika Salgado, Beau Sia, and others

Joshua Tree Experiential Arts & Writing Retreat - Joshua Tree, CA, USA. 
November 2018
Lecturers: Sean Negus, Ariel Fintushel 


MEMBERSHIPS + AFFILIATIONS
Alliance of Women Directors (AWD), since 2016
USC Women of Cinematic Arts (WCA), since 2011
Women in Film (WIF), since 2019
Women in Motion Pictures (WIMPs), since 2017
Sokamba Performing Arts Company, 2014-2015


PROGRAMS + TECHNICAL SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign)
AVID 
Final Cut Pro

Apple Sketch
ProTools
​Klaviyo
Graphic Design
Video Shooting & Post-production
​Voiceover


Languages
English (Native Fluency), French (C1 Fluency), Italian (A1), American Sign Language (A1)
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  • main
  • film // narrative
    • smash face
    • i have some of your stuff.
    • heart to heart
    • seeing red
    • shoot
  • film // art
    • pink! pink! pink!
    • shoot
    • eat you alive
    • landscapes are like crowds
  • photography
    • portraits
    • flower boys
    • skinny pretty sexy
    • our bedroom
    • queer love
    • eat me
    • diagram of a copernican universe
    • reel
    • insomniac dance
    • los angeles vegetation
    • miscellaneous
    • travel
  • other mediums
    • collage
    • on fire
    • whoops!
    • the birthday album
    • youtube channel
  • commercial work
    • Album Covers
    • BuzzFeed
    • BuzzFeed - Nifty
    • Cantiq LA
    • Gingerly Witty
    • Harbor Freight Tools
    • HelloGiggles
    • Mitú
    • Moon Juice
    • Paramount
    • Shagbagg
    • Swaje
    • Tiny Bangs
    • Topology Eyewear
    • Vegamour
  • poetry
  • CV
  • about
  • contact