Who Nicole Rinaldi Is

Nicole Rinaldi is a Producer and Director working across live action, animation, and XR. As a Producer at Silver Spoon Animation (part of AE Live), Nicole produces LED shoots and AR Graphics for clients such as FIFA, NFL, and Netflix. One of the projects she produced, AR Set Extension and additional animation for Nickelodeon’s SlimeTime Season 5, is Emmy-nominated for studio design and graphic design.

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As a Director, Nicole creates music videos and short films. Her latest short, An Unwanted Guest, received a Huntington Arts Council grant and was a semi-finalist for The Chimera Project’s Finishing Fund. She took an old watercolor set and turned it into an animated short that was selected at Oscar-qualifying Animayo. She was part of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers' Mentorship Program, an active member of Film Fatales and Filmshop, and the recipient of the Black Feather Award at Blackbird Film Festival.

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Nicole is developing a new short film blending horror, dance, and mermaids, while An Unwanted Guest prepares for its festival run.

 

As a designer, she has worked on features and shorts, ranging from 1600's period pieces to a  storybook village, to even a grimy motel built in an AFI lecture hall. Nicole is drawn to films that allow her to elevate the narrative by integrating psychological elements into her design. For instance, in the Panavision New Filmmaker’s Grant Film, The Chosen One, she utilized vertical lines and pinstripes to emphasize how trapped the protagonist felt in his current world.