Team (Jury – Cinekid 2023)

Zacharias Mavroeidis studied Architecture in Thessaloniki, Theater in Madrid, and Cinema in Athens and Cuba. He has participated in the Berlinale International Film Festival and the Sarajevo Talent Campus, while being a fellow of the Artworks Program of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. He teaches screenplay at schools in Athens. In September 2022, he was elected General Secretary of the Hellenic Film Academy. Selected filmography: Defunct (fiction, 99′, 2019, Greece), Across the Country (documentary, 83′, 2018, Greece/Sweden), The Guide (fiction, 104′, 2011, Greece), and Pink River (fiction, 18′, 2009, Bosnia-Herzegovina).

Myrto Delivoria was born in Athens in 1974. She is an illustrator and painter who has illustrated books, posters for performances, board games, and her work has been published in Greece, Brazil, France, Korea, and Beijing. She has been awarded for her illustrations with the State Illustration Award, the Greek Visual Communication Design Awards – EBGE!, the Illustration Award of the Circle of the Greek Children’s Book, among others. In 2016, she was recognized with an Honorable Mention by the International Board on Books for Young People, IBBY 2016.

Stella Serefoglou lives and works in Athens as a theater and film director, with an emphasis on children’s theater. She studied advertising at London Metropolitan University while attending theater classes at City Lit College. She then studied film directing at the Stavrakos Film School. Her latest work is the play “Avgo,” which has been performed at the Lilian Voudouri Music Library of the Athens Concert Hall since 2018. In 2021, she completed the short film “The Penguin’s Flight” which premiered at the Cinekid Film Festival and continued its journey at international film festivals (41st Uppsala International Film Festival, 35th European Youth Festival, 41st Ciné-Jeune de l’Aisne, among others). In 2022, she received approval from the Greek Film Centre for the First Film – Script program for her first feature film. Since 2019, she has been collaborating with the National Theater, where she teaches children and adolescents while also directing commercials for television.

Angelos Tsaousis has extensive experience as a director, producer and filmmaker in the international documentary film industry since 2006 with his independent production company Filmografik and currently works at the European Southern Observatory as a filmmaker. He has received the Fulbright Scholarship and the San Francisco Film Society Fellowship. Selected filmography: The New Plastic Road (documentary, 66′, 2020, Greece/Germany), Far.Go.Bots. (documentary, 117′, 2022, Greece).