In the 2025 edition, our curatorial team comprises of artists and academics with vast experience in film, animation and sound.
Meet our curators
I have received my MA in Film and Television Production from the University of Bristol, UK and my BA (with High Honors) in Communication and Cinema Studies with an emphasis on Experimental Filmmaking from the University of Iowa, USA. I have been very fortunate to have studied and mentored under the guidance of the experimental filmmaker Leighton Pierce (currently the Dean of the School of Film/Video at CalArts). I have acted as the Head of MEDIA Cyprus (Creative Europe Programme) for over ten years but my true passion for filmmaking and directing forced me to make challenging decisions in following my dreams. My short films have been screened at many important International Film Festivals such as Rotterdam International Film Festival, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, and have received prestigious awards from Hamburg IFF, Drama IFF, and Cyprus International Short Film Festival.
Nicos Synnos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts, at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds the MA and PgDip titles in Visual Communication with specializations in Animation and Cartoon Imagery from Birmingham City University (UK) and a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication with specialization in Graphic Communication from the University of Wolverhampton (UK) and the California State University in Long Beach (USA).
Keti is a Cypriot filmmaker with studies in Fine Arts and Documentary Film. Her work explores how personal micro-histories are intertwined with wider social phenomena, which defines her cinematic language. She with the Scottish company Intrepid Cinema on the award-winning documentary The Islands and the Whales. Her most recent work, Every Sunday, screened at international film festivals, including winning the Best Documentary Award at Drama Short Film Festival.
Dr. Costas Constandinides is a lecturer in audiovisual media in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. He holds a postgraduate degree and a doctorate degree from the University of Reading, UK (MA Film and Theatre Studies, 2003; PhD in Film and Drama, 2008) and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cyprus (BA in English Language and Literature, 2002). He was previously a faculty member in the Department of Communications at the University of Nicosia. He is the author of From Film Adaptation to Post-celluloid Adaptation (2010) and co-editor (with Yiannis Papadakis) of Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict, and Identity in the Margins of Europe (2014). He has published work in peer-reviewed international publications, and he is a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal Adaptation. He is a member of the European Film Academy and a former co-artistic director of the Cyprus Film Days International Festival.
Charalambos Margaritis is a graduate of the National Superior Fine Arts School of Paris (ENSBA). His work is centered around animated films, print-making, drawing, painting and comics. He lives and works in Paphos, where, in 2015, he co-founded Kimonos Art Center. Since 2017, he has been directing the annual international animation festival The Animattikon Project. His films have been selected and awarded in several film festivals around the world. Since 2018 he has been the ambassador of the European Animation Awards in Cyprus. Since 2019 he teaches animation in the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology.
