Masculinity, Violence, and Nature’s Revenge

Nikos Panayotopoulos is a screenwriter and author. He has written or co-written more than ten feature film scripts (Truants, The King et al.), taught at film schools and screenwriting workshops in Greece and abroad, and published three short story collections, a novella, and four novels (The Doubt Gene, Hagiography et al.).

Georgis Grigorakis is a Greek writer-director with a background in Social Psychology and an MA in Directing Fiction from Britain’s National Film and Television School (NFTS). He has directed short films that have received international attention and awards at over a hundred festivals worldwide. His debut feature film, Digger, was supported by the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency. It premiered at the 70th Berlinale, where it won the CICAE Art Cinema Award, and continued its international festival run winning over 20 awards (Sarajevo|Best Actor, Angers|Special Mention, Thessaloniki|Silver Alexander, Busan, Melbourne, Philadelphia, Haifa, São Paolo, AFI). Digger was the official Greek submission for the 2022 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. It has been released theatrically and on platforms including MUBI, is distributed in the US by Strand Releasing and represented worldwide by The Match Factory.

Dimitris Kanellopoulos was born in Arcadia. He studied cinematography and has worked as a sound engineer in a large number of shorts, feature films, and documentaries. He has written and directed five short films which participated in many international film festivals. Pack of Sheep is his first feature film.

Vangelis Mourikis is a Greek actor working with a range of emerging local talent and established directors. Notable film titles include The King, Norway, Digger, Medea, Attenberg, Stratos, Boobheads, Arcadia, Patty is Such a Girly Name, Recrucified, Swell.

Born in Greece in 1977, Elina Psykou studied filmmaking and sociology in Athens. She has directed and written the fiction films The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (Berlinale Forum 2013), Son of Sofia (Tribeca 2017, Best International Narrative Feature Award), and the documentary, Stray Bodies (CPH:DOX 2024). Currently she is at the pre-production of her fourth feature Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions and the development of her first drama-series The Three Burials of Irma. In 2009 Elina founded the film production company Jungle Films, and in 2021 she produced Pack of Sheep directed by Dimitris Kanellopoulos.