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NILOOFAR ASADI

Writer. Director . Producer

Niloofar Asadi is a San Francisco-based writer, director, and producer. She started her professional career in 2002 and has since worked as a director, producer, writer, and art director in various artistic settings. She has also written and directed plays on international stages.​ 

 

She explores character-driven stories by evoking a human view of characters' emotions and motives with the power of visual storytelling. Her work signifies existential themes like remembrance, presence, time, trauma, and death, focusing on individual power and vulnerabilities while de-emphasizing the social roles her characters perform.​

By portraying characters in a state of crisis, she exposes the viewer to the existential and psychological conditions of her characters, aiming to provoke complex emotional responses, whether self-reflective or sympathetic. She adopts a subjective approach to crafting these settings, often drawing on her own experiences to demonstrate how a character's response to disaster and how their identity changes.

 

Niloofar's vision in pursuit of a universal voice is largely shaped by her experiences of displacement and her endeavor to redefine her artistic identity in the cultural landscape of the host society. Having experienced suppression and censorship as a female artist in a patriarchal society back in Iran, she has always maintained a critical perspective on dominant societal and cultural trends.

In 2012, Niloofar founded AG91, a platform for producing narratives, documentaries, and theatrical performances. Her experiences working with diverse visual forms and media have given her a distinctive visual eloquence that continues to enrich the unique language of her films. Since her migration to the US in 2015, she has kept expanding her universal visual storytelling language and rejects the standard casting of a middle eastern artist with an imposed focus defined by the dominant trends. 

Her short films and documentaries have been selected and recognized by international film festivals such as the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Norwich Film Festival, Prague International Film Awards, and the Africa Human Rights Film Festival. Her depiction of Iran's social and political crisis won her the 2022 Future Art Award from MOZAIK Philanthropy.​

Niloofar has an MFA in Motion Pictures and Television-----Directing----- from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. 

 

"I narrate stories
that motivate us to sympathize with people who face complexities.
"
                                                                              niloofar asadi

AWARDS

2022 Future Art Award

MOZAIK

2022

OFFICIAL SELECTION

PRAGUE

INTERNATIONA 

FILM AWARDS

2021

OFFICIAL SELECTION

AFRICA

HUMAN RIGHTS

FILM FESTIVAL

2021

COVER

AWARD

ESTI Magazine

2022

MARKET

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

2022

The Cypress Tree

Feature Film, Development, 2023.

Gordāfarīd

Short Film, Mozaik, Future Art award, 2022.

Behind me, No wind

Short Documentary, 2022.

Woman. Life. Freedom

Photography Series, ESTI Magazine, Cover, November 2022.

LampLight

Short Film, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival,  Market, 2022.

In Pursuit of Freedom

Official selection, Short Documentary; Africa Human Rights Film Festival, 2021.

Presence

Official Selection, Best short movie; Prague International

Film Awards 2021.

Reflection

Photo Exhibition; The Laundry, San Francisco, California, 2019. 

 

Witness

Photo Exhibition; Metreon, San Francisco, California, 2018. 

Friday

Theatrical play, Village Theater, and Art Gallery,

Danville, California, 2018. 

YOURK OPERA

Theatrical play, Buriel Clay Theatre,

San Francisco, California, 2016. 

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