Gabrielle Pfeiffer

Gabrielle Pfeiffer is an award-winning director, producer and screenwriter. She was born and raised in New York, educated in Geneva, and lives in Berlin. She studied filmmaking at New York University. She has earned more than 35 director, producer, writer and script supervisor credits on feature films and documentaries. Her films have been screened and broadcast all over the world, and won awards at numerous international film festivals. Gabrielle is a Swiss-American dual national from a multicultural family (Swiss father, Dutch-Indonesian mother). She spent her youth in New York making super-8 films, active in photography contests, co-founding a community theater and as team captain in competitive horseback riding. She works in English (mother tongue), German and French. She also runs a successful production services business in Berlin. Previous to working in film, Gabrielle served the United Nations as an aid worker and researcher for seven years stationed in Mali, Sierra Leone, Switzerland (Geneva) and the US (New York). She also earned an Master's degree in International Economics (University of Geneva) and a Bachelor's in Political Science (Drew University).