Natalie Zimmerman’s film and media work has screened internationally in a variety of contexts including: SF Camerawork, de Young Museum (SF), Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna), Independent Feature Project (Angelika Theater, NYC), Anthology Film Archive (NYC), Chicago Underground Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CBC and Russia Today (broadcast).

Her projects have been made possible with numerous grants from supporting institutions including; Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, LEF Foundation, Center for Cultural Innovation, Fleishhaker Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Museumsquartier/Quarter21 and UC Berkeley Professional Development Award.

Zimmerman is a former Fulbright Scholar and holds a Film Certificate from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts. In 2008, she co-founded Social Satisfaction Studio with her longtime collaborator, Michael Wilson, to release their first feature documentary, Silhouette City. (www.socialsatisfaction.org)

She lives along the edge of an old-growth forest, 20 miles north of San Francisco.