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She got actively involved in film production in 2014 as an Associate Producer to the film The Sentimentalists by Nicholas Triantafyllidis and production manager to the first season of the TV Doc series The Haunts. In 2019 she founded the independent production company Chase The Cut which focuses both on feature and short films, docs and fiction, as long as the projects put equal weight on a strong original script as well as a unique artistic view. In 2021 she was a nominee for Best Feature at the Hellenic Film Academy IRIS awards for the film Amercement by Fokion Bogris. Currently she is presenting her latest feature documentaries, Sacred Way, 21 km by Nikoleta Paraschi and The Golden Grip by Fokion Bogris.

Ursula-Helen Kassaveti’s academic research in cultural studies has focused on different aspects of popular culture (film, video, television) in monographs and Greek and foreign journals/edited volumes. She studied Greek literature at the Athens School of Philosophy and holds an MA in cultural studies (The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund) and an MA in history and folklore (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). Her Ph.D. thesis revolved around the 1980s VHS culture in Greece. She has attended courses on film (University of Exeter) and art history (The Courtauld Institute of Art). She is an adjunct tutor at the Hellenic Open University and chief audio-visual documentation researcher for the project “filmography.gr” of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the Hellenic Film Academy, and the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece.

Alexandros Papageorgiou was born in 1988 in Thessaloniki, where he grew up. Since 2016, he has been writing for websites and print publications on topics related to film, television, and visual culture in general. His texts have also been published in edited anthologies, and he works as a translator. He has collaborated with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Drama International Short Film Festival. He is a member of the Hellenic Film Academy and the Greek Film Critics Association.

Yorgos Zois is a Greek director whose body of work, four shorts and two feature films, has been selected at A-festivals worldwide (Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Telluride, etc) and has been acknowledged with multiple awards worldwide including Best Newcomer Feature Director and Best Short Film from the Hellenic Film Academy as well as an EFA nomination for Best Short Film. Ηe was also member of the official Jury “Lion of the Future” at the 74th Venice IFF. His second feature film Arcadia premiered in Berlinale 2024 and won the Best Director award in Sarajevo IFF among others. In Greece, it won Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay from the Hellenic Film Academy and it was selected as Greece's official submission for the 2026 Academy Awards.