Biography: Steff Gruber was born in 1953 in Zurich, Switzerland. From 1972 to 1979 he attended film lectures and courses at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and F+F Zurich College of Design. In 1976 he studied mass media philosophy at the University of Georgia (USA) where he became the assistant of the Professor and film-maker James Herbert. Since 1978 Gruber works as an independent filmmaker. He has taught at various schools and colleges, including a post as a lecturer in film and electronic media at the Konstanz University of Applied Sciences (1994-1997). Among his activities today, he is the director of the production company KINO.NET AG.