Niko von Glasow

Niko von Glasow (''né'' Brücher; born 1960) is a German film director and producer. He is the founder and artistic director of Palladio Film and the founder of the Niko von Glasow Foundation.

Von Glasow began his training with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and then worked for many film directors including Georg Stefan Troller, Hellmuth Costard, Alexander Kluge, Peter Zadek and Jean-Jacques Annaud before going on to study film at New York University and at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland.

In 2008, he produced and directed the feature documentary "NoBody's Perfect", which follows von Glasow as he looks for eleven people who, like him, were born disabled due to the disastrous side effects of thalidomide, and who are prepared to pose nude for a calendar of photos. The film won the German Film Award for Best Documentary at the Deutscher Filmpreis in 2009 and received worldwide acclaim. Through the film's worldwide success, von Glasow met with various politicians and journalists. An effective campaign resulted in the German government's decision to raise monthly compensation (which will amount to over €2.7 billion over the next 30 years) for the 2,700 surviving victims of thalidomide in Germany.

In 2014 he bought Villa Pozzolo in Tuscany and turned it into a cultural centre. In the summer, he rents Villa Pozzolo out to support his foundation, the nikovonglasow.org foundation. The foundation helps more than 1000 children and adults with a disability to get surgery, access to education and food. The foundation is organising the surgery for 400 disabled children in North Vietnam.

He is working as a life, financial, and story coach. The fee for his work as a coach also goes straight to the foundation. Provided by Wikipedia