Natalie Zimmerman
Natalie Zimmerman is a San Francisco Bay Area–based filmmaker and artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide in diverse contexts. She is a former Fulbright Scholar, Headlands Center for the Arts Resident Fellow, and Resident Artist at the de Young Museum of Fine Arts, where she created Social Dream Lab—an exploration of the collective dynamics of dreaming and social revolution.
In 2017, she organized On Fertile Ground: Integrating Perspectives Toward a Collective Future, a gathering of Indigenous and Western women engaged in climate change activism.
Her film works and installations include Islands, which premiered at SF Camerawork in the curated exhibition Traces of Life on the Thin Film of Longing; Close the Eyes, which premiered at the de Young Museum; and Eros & Psyche, which was created and premiered during her residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
In May 2022, Zimmerman was selected for a filmmaker residency with the Woodstock Film Festival, Theoria Foundation, and Gigantic Pictures. She most recently founded Alchemy Dream Studio, which released her first feature-length nonfiction film, OCEANIA: Journey to the Center. OCEANIA had its world premiere at the Mill Valley International Film Festival and continues to screen at festivals worldwide.
She was recently awarded the Best Female Director Award by the Frome International Climate Film Festival, the Best International Feature Award at the ECOador International Film Festival, and the Best International Feature Award in the “Location Negata” competition at the Ischia Film Festival.
Zimmerman holds a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and a Film Certificate from New York University.
