Biography

Niloofar Asadi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1983. She is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. Her path to filmmaking has been twisting and turning; some led her to explore other realms of visual arts, from graphics and paintings to design, expeditions that slowly yet surely converged into motion pictures and television. " As a kid, I used to make my father take me to movie theaters with him. I was stunned by the magic of the moving lights and pictures that make people wait in long lines, sit in silence in a dark theatre, and talk about it for hours after. I wanted to be the person who creates this. "-Niloofar Asadi