Nira Bozkurt

Writer–Producer–Director

Writer–Producer–Director and Cre­at­ive Lead across film, series, audio, and immers­ive media. Pro­jects include BAL­LAVITA (VR, world premiered at La Bien­nale di Venezia), EINE SACHE DER PER­SPEKT­IVE (fea­ture, 200+ awards), and WILD WILD EAST – both as audio drama (Ger­man Audiobook Prize nom­in­ee) and fea­ture script (pro­posed for the Ger­man Screen­play Award, inter­na­tion­ally recognized).

She was Lead Cre­at­ive at Pock­et FM, one of the world’s largest audio plat­forms, where she led writers’ teams with AI-sup­por­ted work­flows and scaled two audio fran­chises (Das Vam­pirsys­tem and Das Mod­el & der Mil­liardär) to the Top 2 in Ger­many with over 34 mil­lion plays (as of August 2025).

She holds an MFA in Screen­writ­ing & Dir­ect­ing from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), trained in VR storytelling in Par­is, and was invited to the Mid­point × Net­flix Writers’ Room pro­gram. She co-cre­ated LALE LOVE (UFA/​Netflix), col­lab­or­ated with Sony Inter­act­ive Enter­tain­ment and HTC Vive on immers­ive pro­jects, and works across formats from fea­ture films to large-scale audio series.

She speaks inter­na­tion­ally on AI & storytelling and VR (Infin­ity Fest­iv­al LA, Cannes/​Marché du Film, Ger­man Haus @ SXSW, 2ANNAS Riga, Lichter Frank­furt, New Hori­zons) and teaches AI tools at Ger­man film schools. From Septem­ber 15, 2025, she will take on the role of AI Coordin­at­or at Fil­makademie Baden-Württem­berg, shap­ing how European per­spect­ives, new voices, and film­mak­ing can thrive in the age of AI.

Recent Credits:

(Germany)