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 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.

She completed theatre studies and postgraduate studies on creative producing. She has worked in the production of international theatre festivals in London such as the Globe to Globe Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe (2012) and London International Festival of Theatre, LIFT (2010) and coordinated art programmes for teenagers and youth groups at theatre organisations such as the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. Ιn Athens, she has coordinated the production of a number of theatre shows and cultural projects and taught drama to primary school students at Costeas-Geitonas School. During the years 2021-2025, she coordinated the educational programmes at Megaron-the Athens Concert Hall.

Artemis Papadaki is a graduate of the Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds an MA in Media, Communication and Culture – Cultural Management from Panteion University. She is a researcher at the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies of the University of the Peloponnese. She has collaborated with a number of institutions and organizations in the production, editing, and organization of their audiovisual material, including the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the International Analogio Festival, the Friends of Music, as well as Blond Productions and MM Publications Company. Since 2021, she has been a regular collaborator of the Handmade and Recycled Theater Festival, and since 2023, of Drama School Beaki.

Second-year student at the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He volunteered at the 7th Athens International Children’s Film Festival in organizing the screenings and managing audience flow within the festival venues. At the 30th Athens International Film Festival-Premiere Nights, in the position of audience management and ushering. 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival at the position of customer service.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lida Platsi is an actress. She graduated from Athens Drama School- G. Theodosiadis and from the National Conservatory with a degree in Contemporary Singing. She works in theater and voice acting and teaches voice and singing lessons. She has translated and adapted theatrical plays and after taking writing classes for children’s books, she is now the author of original fairytales.

Graduate of the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Piraeus and the Athens Conservatoire, where he studied under Argyris Xafis. He has worked in theatre with directors such as Stamatis Fasoulis and Nikita Milivojević, among others, as well as in dance-theatre performances with Amalia Bennett and Giota Kalimani at the Onassis Foundation and abroad.

I am a high school graduate currently studying animation.
I speak English, Spanish, and Japanese.
I am an ambassador for programs of the organization Together for Autism, founded by my father.

I have participated in the Athens International Children’s Film Festival, performing live at the Athens Concert Hall. I have also appeared as an extra in Disney’s “Rise”, based on the life of Giannis Antetokounmpo, and in Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey”. I have done dubbing for Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” and “Zootopia 2”.

I am also an arts ambassador for Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center: ΕΚΚΟΜΕΔ, supporting neurodiverse individuals in the arts.
Additionally, I give talks as an autism awareness motivator.