Zsuzsa Zádori was born in Budapest, Hungary. She earned her MA in Hungarian Language, Literature and Ethnography at the Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen in 1992. She has been earning certificates in the fields of audio-visual archiving, records management and electronic records management from the University of New South Wales, the Central European University and aiim.org, and has been working as audiovisual archivist since 1997. Senior Audiovisual Archivist at the 'Open Society Archives at Central European University' (OSA at CEU) Budapest 1999 - 2008. As programmer she curated various film series of propaganda, fiction and non-fiction works at the Galeria Centralis, Budapest since 1997. She has made video installations for exhibitions concerning the Cold War, communism, and human rights at OSA. In 2007, she made a video installation about the depiction of Roma on film, that was exhibited at the Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2004, she launched 'Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival' based in Budapest. She has been the director of this festival till 2008. Since 2008 she lives in Arusha, Tanzania and works as Audio-Visual Archivist / Audio Redaction Coordinator at the Judicial Records and Archives Unit, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She works on a major "audio visual redaction" archival project at UN-ICTR aiming at preservation and access of the trial proceedings of the tribunal.