JURORS

Dimitris Eleftheriotis is a professor of Film Studies at the University of Glasgow.
He has been an editor of Screen (2012-2021) and of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture
(2014-). His publications include Popular Cinemas of Europe: Studies of Texts, Contexts and
Frameworks, Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide and Cinematic Journeys: Film and
Movement. His recent academic work includes several articles on film and cosmopolitanism.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/dimitriseleftheriotis/

Spiros Jacovides was born in London, UK. He studied Film Directing at the London College of
Printing (LCP) and Stavrakou Film School in Athens. He also attended the Berlin Film
Academy (DFFB) for one year as a guest student. He has written and directed three short
films and one feature film. He lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Yannis Korres (b. 1986) is a filmmaker born and living in Athens, Greece. After completing his first feature
film he’s working on documentary and feature projects in various stages of development. He also works
as a film programmer for HF productions.

Nariman Massoumi (b. Tehran, 1980) is a filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Film & Television at
the University of Bristol, UK. He has a background in documentary film production at the BBC
and has produced a number of short fiction and documentary films which have screened at
international festivals. His most recent film is Pouring Water on Troubled Oil (2023), about the
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s journey through Iran.

Eirini Vianelli is an award winning director / animator based in Athens Greece.
She studied Graphic Design (BAHons) at the University of the Arts London (Camberwell) in
2007 and received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts
in 2017.
Her short film Icebergs was Oscar qualified for 2018 after winning best animation short in San
Francisco Film Festival. In 2018 she created the animation that works as a set for the Greek
National Opera show of Lena Platonos’ the Emperor’s Nightingale. Since then she has
continued her work with the GNO with the Animal Assembly and Don Quichote ballet, while
continuing to develop her personal films.

Rea Walldén is a filmmaker, a film theorist, and Assistant Professor in the Department of
Digital Arts and Cinema of the University of Athens. She is a member of the Hellenic Semiotic
Society, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the Society for European
Philosophy, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, the Hellenic Film
Academy, and Women in Film and Television Greece (president 2020-22). She has shot short
experimental films and exhibited artwork. She has co-written the script for the feature film
Thief or Reality (2001) by Antoinetta Angelidi. Recently, she directed the feature-length
documentary Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality.