∵ game developer - software engineer
Andreas is a human being, as far as he can tell. He trains as a jack-of-all-trades in Game Development focusing on audio, coding and visual art. He is interested in Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) and has hands-on experience in GNU/Linux sysadmin and self-hosting. He is currently working as a freelancer offering interactive application development services, while keeping himself busy with small, story-driven, personal gamedev projects. At the same time, he is begrudgingly completing his Bachelor in Economics at the University of Patras.
∵ music supervisor - sync and licensing
Andreas Papadopoulos is a graduate of the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics Engineering at the TEI of Crete and holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Unit Management. His professional career includes collaborations with leading cultural organizations such as the Greek National Opera, where he worked as an assistant in audiovisual production design, the Kazantzakis Museum, contributing to the digitization and restoration of archival material, and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies as part of the research program "CRINNO II: MUSIC," highlighting Crete’s musical tradition. From 2008 to 2018, he worked on the documentation of musical works, repertoires, and LC at AEPI, and since 2019, he serves as Licensing and Music Integration Manager for audiovisual projects at the music publishing company D Version.
In parallel, he teaches Music Technology and Production at severeal SAEK, while he is also certified youth instructor by ASPAITE.
In the voluntary sector, he has contributed for many years to the Hellenic Children's Museum, designing and conducting workshops for children in various artistic fields. He also served for three years on the music program committee of the Aeschylia Festival and contributed to festivals such as Plisskën, focusing on cultural product management. Additionally, he writes for "Spotted by Locals," showcasing Athens' contemporary culture to an international audience.
∵ illustrator - 2D animator
Aliki Finn is an illustrator & 2D Animator based in Athens, Greece. Her work is usually described as surrealistic, as she loves to approach everyday stories, emotions and thoughts in a figurative way, with strong whimsical elements. Social and psychological stimuli play an important role in her approach to her work.
Aliki Finn has been a workshop instructor on animation techniques at the University Club of Athens. From 2015 to 2021 she taught painting, as well as animation theory and practice at a private art school. Her love for cinema and animation is expressed through a series of individual and group projects. She has participated in Greek and international film productions as a storyboard and concept artist and has designed posters for films and film festivals. She has also worked in the set design department of films and video clips and has participated as an animator in video clips and documentaries. She is currently participating with other artists from Greece and abroad in the production of a feature film that is currently in development.
∵ production manager
Iakovos Vroutsis was born in the city of Kalamata in Greece in 1980. He studied statistics at the department of the Athens University of Economics and Business, but very early on he became interested in cinema. Having attended seminars on aesthetics and history of cinema, as well as seminars on animation, directing and production, he moved into practice by participating in the production and distribution of films. His first job as a production manager was on Alexandros Skouras' film "Gran Partita", which won the award for best digital film at the 2011 Drama Festival. Since then he has worked on a number of award-winning short and feature films in Greece and abroad, mainly as production manager and assistant director. In recent years he has been working in the production of commercial and corporate films and music videos. He also works in the production of artistic events and festivals as an associate of the non-profit NGO Documatism, while for years he has been a program curator and lecturer of film seminars at the University Club of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
∵ cinematographer - director - music composer
Rafael Ramírez holds a degree in audiovisual communication from the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba. He graduated from the documentary department at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). His teaching and artistic practice focus on the intersections between the exploration of sound and the cinema of the real.
His work has participated in international programs in France, Spain, Switzerland, Switzerland, UK, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, USA and Japan (Locarno IFF, Mar del Plata IFF, DocumentaMadrid, Clermont-Ferrand, Frames of Representation, FIC Valdivia, FestCurtas, and Curacao IFF Rotterdam among other festivals). He has directed mockumentary films: "Filmar Pedro Páramo" (2007), "Tractatus" (2008) and "Diary of the Mist" (Mar del Plata IFF, 2015), the short documentary "Limbo" (DocumentaMadrid, 2016), the hybrid documentary "Alona" (Mar del Plata, DocumentaMadrid, 2017) and the experimental short films "Traces of the Inscribed" (2017) and "Amundsen's Dogs" (Locarno Film Festival 2017, FIC Valdivia, Mar del Plata IFF, Frames of Representation, DocumentaMadrid, FestCurtas, Frontera Sur, Neighboring Scenes). The 32nd edition of Mar del Plata IFF presented a retrospective of his works in the Altered States section. In 2019 two of his short films were selected by the Cervantes Institute for a world exhibition. His first feature film, Las Campañas de Invierno (The winter campaigns), premiered in April 2019 at the Curacao IFF in Rotterdam. From September 2017 to December 2018 he was the coordinator of the Department of Humanities and the postgraduate course in alternative cinema organized by EICTV.
In addition to directing, he conducts and composes music for a blues/liberal jazz/empiric band called The Royal Bakunin Orchestra, and is also the author of the novel: 'Umbralismo: una antología'. In May 2019, Ramírez and the Greek filmmaker Athina Taka (BA in Contemporary European History from UCL London), created Mundus Subterraneus, a Society dedicated to the study of Collision. Since 2020, Ramirez has been the head of the INTERZONA postgraduate program for the San Antonio de Los Banos Internacional Film School. In 2021 he was selected for Doc Lisboa with his work Orlando Furioso and DOCMA (Association of Documentary Filmmakers of Spain) dedicated a retrospective to his work in Madrid. In the same year he presented Pabellon de Melancolicos, a transversal work at the Elias Querejeta Zinescola in San Sebastian, in collaboration with Oderay Ponce de Leon. In 2022 Ramirez was invited to the fifteenth Documenta in Kassel to present his works. His new film Wanderclyffe is currently in post production.
∵ cultural communication supervisor - event planner
Vereniki obtained a degree in Communication from the Department of Communication and Mass Media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with a specialization on cultural communication and holds a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from the University of Manchester. During her studies, her academic interests focused, among others, on cultural marketing, digital exhibition curation and the use of new technologies in cultural institutions. She has worked as an intern in communication offices of important museums and cultural organizations such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) and the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, allowing her to practice her skills in promoting cultural events through social media management, writing press releases, etc. She has two years of experience in project management and coordination of European programs, as well as large-scale event planning. Finally, she has worked for the non-profit organization “DIAZOMA”, where her responsibilities included the coordination of the Reconstruction Program of North Evia from drafting a Master Plan (a guideline text) for the creation of an Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI), until the implementation of the proposed projects/action, the adherence to strict schedules and the coordination of numerous working groups (researchers, local government, ministries, etc.).
∵ music producer & composer - sound designer