Sina Ataeian Dena is an interdisciplinary
artist, filmmaker, screenwriter, dramaturg
and producer. His debut film Paradise
(2015) was nominated for the Golden
Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival
and won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and
Art Peace Award, among many others
worldwide. He produced Critical Zone
(2023), which won the Golden Leopard
in Locarno. Sina was dramaturg and
associate producer of Seven Winters in
Tehran (2023), which won the Berlinale
Peace Film Prize and multiple other
international awards. He teaches at the
Berlin University of the Arts and the
German Film and Television Academy
Berlin (DFFB).