Nicola Jane Black (born 3 May 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish film producer and director best known for her hard hitting, controversial documentaries and for producing internationally award-winning animations.

Nicola Black is one of Britain's top independent producer director. Best known for her documentaries Designer Vaginas, Bone Breakers, When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett, Tribal Cop, White Jazz, Jenny Saville - Flesh & Blood and the series Mirrorball and Banned in the UK the centre-piece series to the Channel 4 Banned season.

Nicola is also the producer of Channel 4's Mesh animation scheme, producing such award-winning digital animations as Covert, Daddy, Killing Time At Home and Watermelon Love.

Nicola Black was born on the 3rd May 1965. She attended Hutchison's School and the University of Glasgow. Nicola worked as a trainee editor on Caravaggio (1986) before going on to work as a producer and director. In 1995, she set up Blackwatch Productions Limited. Nicola's debut as producer and director was White Jazz (1995) a dram-documentary film which followed crime writer James Ellroy going in search of his mother's murder. Nicola went on to direct Dead Eye Dick (1997) and produce _Carry On Darkly (1998) (TV)_ with Paul Gallagher (II). Nicola is currently working on the short film The Killer.