More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Writer / Director / Editor
Nicole Conn – Writer/Director/Editor/Mother
Nicole Conn has been a die-hard romantic and black and white film fan from the age of nine.
She released her 8th film, More Beautiful for Having Been Broken, in May of 2020 which has won over 30 Best Awards from the 2019/20 Festival Circuit. The Advocate calls it “her most personal film yet,” and it’s being released Worldwide through Vision Films.
Conn is also in the process of re-releasing Elena Undone for its 10th Anniversary. Winner of 4 Best Feature Awards, this film also boasts the LONGEST ON SCREEN KISS IN CINEMA HISTORY: This classic romance with a twist became the best selling film of its genre in 2010.
Having conceptualized and directed Jen Fosters, Sheas a national anthem for civil liberty in 2014 Conn directed a 7 minute short entitled SHE4ME sponsored and endorsed by Marriage for Equality, USA for which she won The Community Award 2015, as well as Music Video of the Year – OutMusic.
Her penchant for adult and dramatic story telling is evident in her previous critically acclaimed feature film (5 Best Feature Awards), A Perfect Ending –“the sexiest film of 2012” (Curve) and with over 70 million views to her sneak preview online, A Perfect Ending is now the single best-selling film of its genre.
Conn’s penchant for telling stories that really hit home, is “greatly rewarded” by all the fan mail she receives from viewers who watch her film multiple times. If there ever was an earmark of success, Conn believes it’s in “seeing my work over and over and OVER again.”
Conn’s previous venture, little man, is a documentary she wrote, directed and produced about her own premature son born 100 days early and only weighing one pound. The feature documentary went on to win 12 Best Documentary Awards, along with the prestigious Cedar Sinai’s Courageous Beginnings Award and Family Pride’s Family Tree Award. The film made three TOP TEN FILMS OF 2005 list and Showtime picked up the feature and ran an Emmy campaign on this hard-hitting story about Conn’s son’s premature birth and subsequent 6-month hospital stay in a Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit.
Conn’s passion for film carried her through her first feature in which she raised the money, wrote, directed and produced Claire of the Moon, the maverick film about a woman’s journey to her sexual identity. This Cult Film garnered rave reviews and paved the way for lesbian themed cinema in 1993 and became a seminal film in the LGBT Community. Conn also created a FIRST for lesbian cinema: ancillary in the form of a novelization (in its 15th reprint and 10 & 20 Year Anniversary Republications). A making-of documentary MOMENTS (best-selling lesbian documentary ever made), soundtracks, posters, t-shirts, etc.
She followed these projects with the award winning short film, Cynara…Poetry in Motion.
A two book deal with Simon Schuster produced the novels, Passion’s Shadow (1995) & Angel Wings (1997), a new age love story. The script adaptation for Angel Wings won the 2001 Telluride Film Festival’s Best Screenplay Award. In another pioneering effort, The Wedding Dress was chosen by AOL Time Warner for its new internet endeavor iPublish, which debuted in June 2001. She Walks in Beauty was originally published in September, 2001 and was republished in 2015. All her titles are being re-released via Bella Books
Conn has achieved world-wide industry recognition with her films Claire of the Moon, Elena Undone, A Perfect Ending and little man. Winner of many film awards, she was was a finalist in the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
Her latest community venture is to make destination HUB for Lesbian Cinema through NicoleConnFilmsGlobal.com. This is a group of women from all over the world who are committed to building the Lesbian Cinema Library – Made By, For & About Women. NCFG is partnering with many Global LGBTQ entities to help other filmmakers and artists achieve their dreams through this site which rolled out June of 2020.
Well known for her speed, quality and prolific ability to write in many genres, Conn has written eight novels, a parent’s guide, two teleplays, fourteen screenplays, and has produced six soundtracks.
She lives in Los Angeles with her son, Nicholas, who is very special needs and remains medically fragile and was the basis and inspiration for More Beautiful For Having Been Broken, the film in which her daughter, Gabrielle, a theater/education major also makes her film debut. Conn is currently writing Do We Not Bleed, her next feature as well as finalizing her epic tome, Descending Thirds, which is in development as an Episodic Mini-Series.