Steffi Niederzoll
Steffi Niederzoll was born in Nuremberg in 1981.She studied audiovisual media arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and the Escuela de Ciney Television in Cuba (EICTV) from 2001-2007. Her short films have successfully screened at numerous renowned national and international film festivals such as Berlinale. She participated in various directing masterclasses and was a scholarship holder at the Cultural Academy Tarabya, Turkey. In addition to her filmwork, she is also involved in interdisciplinary artistic works. She was a member of the core group of the collective “1000Gestalten”, which caused a worldwide sensation with its performance during the G20 summit in Hamburg. Her collective works have been presented at the Brecht Festival, the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde and Vejle, Denmark, among others. Together with Shole Pakravan, she wrote the book “How to Become a Butterfly” about Reyhaneh Jabbari, which will be published by Berlin Verlag in 2023. SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN is her first feature-length documentary.