Nafiss Nia

Born in 1968 in Iran. Besides her filmmaking career she is a Dutch-Iranian poet, writer, cultural entrepreneur and public speaker. She has been living in the Netherlands since 1992. She studied to become a film director at the Film Faculty of Art University and studied Modern Persian Literature at the State University in Tehran, Iran. In the Netherlands she studied Screenwriting at the Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. Since 2012, she has been the business & artistic director of the Granate Foundation, an organization that promotes and makes visible inclusivity in Dutch film & poetry.