Nicole Midori Woodford is a Singaporean film director, writer and editor. She is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents as well as the Asian Film Academy in 2010. Her short film For We Are Strangers competed at the 20th Busan International Film Festival. Permanent Resident, her latest short film, was selected in Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2018, Busan International Film Festival and SeaShorts 2018 amongst other festivals. It investigates the paradoxes of the Singaporean modern identity through the gaze of a middle-aged woman and a manmade monolith. Her debut feature film project, You Are There, was selected in the inaugural edition of SEAFIC lab (Southeast Asian Fiction Lab), a feature film script lab in Thailand as well as SEA Lab at SGIFF and Talents Tokyo. Her project was awarded two awards, clinching the Open SEA Fund award and the SEAFIC-TFL award. You Are There was also selected at the FeatureLab program at Torino Film Lab in 2018. Her filmmaking perspective focuses on the female psyche and portrays their struggles and their personal traumas is translated to the cinematic form, using the uncanny. Nicole is also a film lecturer at NTU School of Art, Design & Media in Singapore.