THE CAPSULE

Athina Rachel Tsangari works as a filmmaker and projection designer in her native Greece and the US. Her graduation thesis at the University of Texas at Austin, The Slow Business of Going, a low-fi sci-fi road movie, traveled the world to critical acclaim, and was acquired by MoMA for its permanent film collection. She designed the video projections for the 2004 Olympics Opening Ceremony, and the celebrated large-scale, live projections for the opening of the Bernard Tschumi-designed Acropolis Museum (2009). Her second feature Attenbergpremiered in competition at the 2010 Venice IFF, where it won the Coppa Volpi Award for its lead, Ariane Labed, and went on to win 13 more awards at festivals worldwide. It was Greece’s Best Foreign Language Film submission to the 2011 Academy Awards. Her up-coming feature Duncharonwas awarded the Arte France Cinema Award for best project at the IFF Rotterdam CineMart 2012.