JURORS

Alexander Stamatiadis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1999 and is a Business Management student, although his heart lies in cinema. He is currently working as a freelance director, working with mediums such as music videos, short films, and commercials.

His directorial work with the artist phenomenon ‘Good Job Nicky’ has earned him a spot on the scene of rising young directors in his homeland, Greece.

Recently, he finished post-production on his first dance short film ‘Agathi’, teaming up with Paris-based performers ‘Cie Kh’ and choreographer ‘Karim Khouader’.

Christos Paridis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he spent most of his life. There, he first came in touch with the art of cinema through art galleries, and from a very early age while attending the International Film Festival.

He studied Theater and Film at Bard College in New York, with which he never connected professionally, except through journalism while conversing with great artists, writers, and thinkers.
 
Although he initially started writing reviews in ‘Cinema Notebooks’ (Κινηματογραφικά Τετράδια), along the way, he continued with the presentation of important, old, and new creators for the magazine of Thessaloniki ‘SL’. Gradually, this became his main occupation before he even realized it. Since then he has written for pioneering magazines and the most important Greek newspapers.

He currently lives in Athens which he loves very much for her diversity and multiculturalism. He mainly collaborates with Freepress ‘Lifo’, as a cultural editor, covering everything that has to do with theater, cinema, literature, arts, and society in all its forms.

Petros Aronis is a visual artist specializing in photography and film, based in Athens.

He graduated in History of Art at the University of Glasgow in 2019 and in 2021 he completed a Master’s degree in Film Directing at the University of Arts London.

Petros’s main aspiration was to become a film director. He took up photography in 2015 as a way of controlling his aesthetic abilities in a single frame before moving to 24 frames per second. However, he ended up loving the medium of photography and he is working as a fashion and fine-art photographer ever since.

His photography has been published in magazines such as British Vogue and Dreck Magazine, as well as, online platforms such as Fucking Young, A Part Magazine, and Popaganda. Petros has created multiple video-art installations that have been exhibited in Glasgow and Prague. He has worked as 1st-assistant director and casting director for various other projects. Outwit (2021), a film about transphobia, is his first short narrative film. Lately, Petros has created commercial videos for Urban Owl and Zeus+Dione Eyewear.