Ομάδα (Κριτική Επιτροπή – Cinekid 2025)

Georgina Kakoudaki is a theatre theorist and director. Since 2009, she has been directing youth theatre performances and collaborated with over 30 theatre and dance companies as a dramaturg. She is teaching in numerous public and international organizations specializing in educating adults through theatre and film. She has taught film dramaturgy and aesthetics at the AKMI IEKschool (2006-2011). She was head of the National Theatre of Greece Library and Archive (1997-2004). She co-wrote the books: Theatre education for adults (IDEKE 2007) and Paths of Experiential Learning (Kedros publications 2011). She is the author of the Arts Schools Students’ Course book specializing in Theatre Directing and Film Directing (IEP 2015)  and Film Aesthetics (ΙΕP 2015) and organized large number of New Artists festivals alongside a series of organizations and theatres in Greece. From 2016 to 2019 she was the curator of the Educational Programs of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival and the Artistic Director of the Epidaurus Lyceum, an international school for actors focusing on ancient drama. She collaborates with Olympia International Festival for Children and Young People/Pitching Ideas, Drama International Film Festival/ Pitching Lab and with Athens International Children Film Festival. Since 2021 she is the Artistic Director of the summer school for ancient drama Summer Oracle (Municipal Theatre of Ioannina/ Dodona)

Lucas Paleocrassas is a Greek documentary filmmaker whose work has been showcased at international festivals and academic institutions such as Sapienza and NYU. In 2022, he competed at the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival with Final Year, a co-production of ANEMON and the Greek Film Centre, which won Best Feature Documentary at the 25th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People and the 11th AegeanDocs. 

He was awarded by ARTWORKS (2022) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program. His latest documentary, Bugboy, received the Onassis Film Award at the 27th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and is a Greek-Danish-French co-production supported by the Greek Film Centre, ERT, ARTE, the Danish Film Institute, and DR.

Effie Pappa is an award-winning writer and animation director based in Athens, Greece. Through her work, she explores characters and universal themes through allegory, humour and sometimes absurdism.

Her film My Stuffed Granny received international recognition, winning awards such as the McLaren Award (Edinburgh Film Festival) and the Tokyo Anime Award. She has also directed selective commercials and music videos, with over 80 million views.

In 2022, she wrote and directed IN BETWEEN, while in 2023, she launched Dr. Happy Productions and developed her first animated kids’ TV series, My Name is Lulo!, which won the Script Development Competition 2024 of the Athens International Children’s Film Festival and was selected for the Cinekid Script LAB 2024-2025.

She is an Onassis Foundation scholar, an ARTWORKS Fellow, a member of ASIFA Hellas, and an NFTS alumna, where she received her master’s degree from Ken Loach.