Team

Founder of the Athens International Children’s Film Festival. Mom, theater and TV producer. Holds a BA in Humanities and an MA in Theatre. Has worked for the theater & television as a director and producer. Has produced large scale TV shows, music, corporate and youth marketing events.

Programme and industry consultant at the Athens International Children’s Film Festival. Holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of Copenhagen. Film festival programmer for more than 15 years, and has lived and worked in Copenhagen, Reykjavik, and now settled in Prague. Moderator of master classes and other film related talks. Producer of independent feature documentaries and experimental shorts. Member of the Danish and European Film Academies, and the founder of Sane Cinema, an initiative for mental health in the film industry.

Director of educational programmes and school screenings at the Athens International Children’s Film Festival. Holds a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Cultural Management. Freelance cultural project manager. Has worked for many cultural institutions in France and in Greece.

Graduate of the Department of Communication, Media and Culture (Panteion University), as well as the Department of Art History (Paris 1-La Sorbonne). She holds a MA in Touristic Evaluation of Cultural Sites (Paris 1-La Sorbonne). She has collaborated with various cultural organizations and festivals in Greece and abroad in the production and promotion of events, while she is also active in the tourism sector.

Attended the Theatre Studies course at the Nafplion School of Fine Arts. She has volunteered at the 6th International Documentary Film Festival of the Peloponnese and is part of the “inbetween” group, whose noted project “Inspired by Hamlet” was exhibited at the Video Art Miden Festival, 2021. She has attended a series of seminars on photography, cinema and film direction.

Film traffic manager at the Athens International Children’s Film Festival. Holds a BA in Media and Communication and an MA in Film from Middlesex University. Freelance videographer and video editor.

Antonis Korkonzilas was born in Patras in 1990 and completed his studies in the Department of Information Technology & Media. Since 2008 he started working in film festivals and institutions such as the Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Youth, the Drama International Short Film Festival, Youth Plan, the Panorama of European Cinema Film Festival, the Francophone Film Festival in Greece, the Micro m Festival, the CineDoc Documentary Festival of Patras and other institutions such as the University of Patras. In the private sector he has worked in production companies, Digital Marketing companies and visual communication companies as Project and Product manager. Since 2017 he has founded and operates ABCinema with the institutional purposes of disseminating the art of cinema and since 2019 he is the founder and Festival Manager of KinoFest German-speaking Film Festival of Greece. Currently, he is pursuing his Master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Development.

Press & media relations officer at the Athens International Children’s Film Festival. Has coordinated major corporate communication campaigns, has designed and implemented large-scale events for significant corporations, non-profit organizations and major brands. Holds an MA in Management Communications and Public Relations from Emerson College, Boston, USA. Works as a free-lancer in communication and press.

Content creator at the Athens International Children’s Film Festival. Studied Sociology at the American College of Greece. Works as a journalist for the Kathimerini newspaper. Has collaborated with various magazines and websites. Proud and loving mother.

Programme Assistant at the Athens International Children’s Film Festival. She holds a BSc in Film & TV Production from the University of York and a MSc in Film Curation from the University of Glasgow. She works as a film curator and filmmaker. Since 2016, she has worked in the curation and production departments of various film festivals and organisations including collaborations with Sundance Channel in Sundance London, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Aegean Film Festival and the Center for Contemporary Arts, GLA.

She is graduate of the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus and holds a master’s degree in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture with a focus on Cultural Management at Panteion University. She has been involved in film festivals, museums and production companies and now works as an educational programs assistant.

Marilia oversees the hospitality sector of the festival. She holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Crete and has taken acting classes at Iasmos Drama School. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s in Strategic Events Management at Breda University of Applied Sciences. Marilia has a background in the hospitality industry, with a focus on the events sector.

Has studied Theatre at the Nafplion School of Fine Arts and has attended theatre, dance and creative writing seminars. He has been part of the 5th and 6th Athens International Children Film Festival as a volunteer. Has done his internship as a drama teacher at the educational program of the National Theatre “ Building Change: Stories that Urgent” (Gender Stereotypes) and “The Show Before and After”.

Undergaduate student of the University of West Attica in the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication of the school of Applied Arts and Culture. She has done her internship at the Athens International Children’s Festival.

Has studied acting and dancing (ballet and contemporary dancing) in Greece and abroad. She works as a performer in theater plays and she is also a voice artist. Evgenia is qualified and has worked as a production manager at film festivals, theatre plays and various events. During the last few years she has evolved her career to social media and she is a social media manager for businesses and brands.