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Nikki Harmon is a filmmaker, educator, and the Steward for SIFTMedia Collective, a cooperative that centers Black and Latine women-identified and gender-expansive independent media artists in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. In 2024, she produced an anthology of eight films by eight different filmmaking teams for SIFTMedia 215’s Good Grief Film Project. In 2023, she was the Exhibition Producer of Portals: Termite TV's 31st Anniversary Exhibition. In 2022, she served as the producer of two short films, Tonight, We Eat Flowers, part of the BlackStar Filmmaking Lab, and Sundown Road, directed by M. Asli Dukan. In 2021, she produced and directed a short documentary, The Last Responder, as part of the SIFTMedia 215 COVID1619 Project. She is currently in post-production on a short film, Now & Again, that she wrote and directed in the summer of 2025.
She has written, produced, directed, and performed in various technical positions on several documentaries, short narratives, educational and industrial films, music videos and feature-length films. In 2002, She joined Banyan Productions and worked on three seasons of TLC’s “A Wedding Story” as a researcher, associate producer and finally as a producer Throughout her career however, Nikki has maintained her commitment to mentor and teach others and has taught for community organizations such as the Big Picture Alliance and Scribe Video Center and at the undergraduate level at Drexel and Arcadia Universities, Chestnut Hill College and CCP as an adjunct professor. She has also taken a fancy to writing and has self-published two novels, When I Was your Girlfriend and Neither Here Nor There under Mt. Airy Girl Press. A native Philadelphian, she graduated from Wesleyan University and returned to Philadelphia to pursue a career in television and film production. She received her MFA in Media and Film Arts from Temple University. |
