Nicolas Rossier, born in Zürich in 1971, has studied Economics and Political Sciences at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Since 1988 he has studied acting and direction at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the School for Visual Arts, New York. He has worked as cameraman all around the world and then he founded Baraka Production, in 2001 he released his first documentary Life is a Dream. A Street Poet in New York.