Nell Augustin is a queer Haitian-American artist development executive and independent producer advocating for creative freedom, risk, and redefining investment.

Granting over $1.5MM in four years as Director of Original Voices Documentary Films at NBCUniversal, she has proudly supported award-winning nonfiction and hybrid films such as I Didn’t See You There (SFF22), Mija (SFF22), Hummingbirds (BERLINALE23), Bad Press (SFF23), Unseen (HOT DOCS 23), Union (SFF24), Homegrown (VENICE24), Ghetto Children (NOFF24) and Love Birds (forthcoming 2025). Nell was named a 2021 DOC NYC Documentary New Leader and selected for the 2022 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellowship supported by the Ford Foundation. Born in New York City to parents from Minnesota and Haiti, she splits her time between Brooklyn and St. Paul with her fiancé and dog.

Nell has film programmed for indie documentary film festivals including True/False, CIFF, and Big Sky, led filmmaker labs and seminars for BlackStar Projects, Firelight Media, and UnionDocs, and served on festival juries and funding panels for BAVC, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Brooklyn Arts Council, Chicago Media Project, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Creative Capital, Define American, Doc Society, Duke University’s DocX Development Lab, Film Independent, The Gotham, IDA, Indie Memphis, LEF Foundation’s Moving Image Fund, Mezcla Media, NEA, New Orleans Film Festival, NYU Production Lab, Open City, Palm Springs ShortFest, POV, SFFILM, and Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and New Frontier Story Labs.  Nell is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Fordham University with a degree in Anthropology and Africana Studies.