Christos Konstantopoulos
He was born in Pyrgos in 1958. Journalist, he worked from 1982 to 2003 in newspapers in Ilia and as a correspondent of "Vima" and "Nea". He published the literary magazine "Alpheus" and dealt with cinema, advertising and publishing. He is a founding member of the Creative Group for the Audiovisual Expression of Young People "Neaniko Plano" and was its vice president until 2018. Since 2016 he has been President of the Management Committee of the KOINSEP Olympia Festival.
Email: konstantopoulos[at]olympiafestival.gr
Pantelis Panteloglou
He was born in Athens in 1976 and studied Social Anthropology at Panteion University, where he also did postgraduate studies. He has been working in the wider cultural and audiovisual field since 1999, in various creative, technical and administrative positions (sound engineer, theater lighting designer, actor, web designer, editor, translator-subtitler, production manager, etc.). He first worked at the Festival in 2011 and since 2018 he has been working full-time as deputy artistic director. As of 2023 he is president of the European Children's Film Association (ECFA) for a five-year term. From the beginning of 2024 he took over the artistic direction of the Festival.
Email: panteloglou[at]olympiafestival.gr
Manolis Melissourgos.
Manolis Melissourgos is the Artistic Director of the European Meeting of Youth Audiovisual Creation Camera Zizanio. He was born and raised in Athens and holds a BSc in European and International Studies and a Master's Degree in Cultural Policy, Management and Communication. In 2004 he worked for the first time at the Drama Film Festival, saw all the films screened and decided that he wanted to work for cinema forever. He has collaborated in production positions with the largest festivals in Greece, while with the Olympia Festival the relationship begins in 2011. In recent years he has also been involved in the production of films, mainly for children and young people.
Email: melissourgos[at]olympiafestival.gr
Mandy Argyropoulou
Born in Amaliada, Ilia in 1972, she studied at the Theological School of Athens and attended a postgraduate program "Communication and Information Technologies for Education". She has worked as a public relations manager since 1991. She has been working at the Olympia Festival since 2002. She is the Secretary of the Festival's Steering Committee and directs the Festival's Athens office.
Email: argyropoulou[at]olympiafestival.gr
Yorgos Spyrou
He was born in Athens in 1979. He is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has worked for ten years as a philologist in the private sector. Since 1997 he has been participating in the organization of the Olympia Festival, undertaking various responsibilities from time to time. From 2001 to 2004 he participated in the organization of the International Meeting of the University Theatre of Olympia. From 2002 to 2008 he was responsible for film screenings for schools at the cinema Philippe in Kypseli. He is currently working as the head of the programming team of the Olympia Festival.
Email: y.spyrou[at]olympiafestival.gr
Lito Theodosiou
Lito Theodosiou has been working at the Festival since 1999. Since 2001 she has been the General Coordinator of the European Meeting of Youth Audiovisual Creation Camera Zizanio. She has coordinated film workshops for young people in international festivals and has been a member of international juries. She has been involved in film subtitling, while at the same time he has been active in organizing workshops and conferences. For seven years she worked in the International Competition Section of the Drama Short Film Festival. She is a member of the White Puppet Theatre. She studies Photography & Camerawork at the Stavrakos Film School.
Email: l.theodosiou[at]olympiafestival.gr
Kostas Korres
Born in Athens in 1978, he studied European Culture at the Hellenic Open University, received a master's degree in Education using New Technologies from the University of the Aegean where he is a PhD candidate in History. He has professional experience in cultural management and non-formal education in Greece, Portugal and Germany, and has participated in research projects of the Universities of Patras and Ioannina. From 2010 to 2013 he was the coordinator of the program "Lessons in the dark" of Neaniko Plano. In 2016 he received a cultural management scholarship from the Goethe-Institut, received further training in Germany and created the award-winning intercultural education program "Ani-Mate and Meet the Other". From 2018 until today he is responsible for the educational programs and cultural manager of Neaniko Plano and member of the KOINSEP Festival of Olympia.
Email: korres[at]olympiafestival.gr
Natalia Spyropoulou
She studied Graphic Design and worked for several years in the printed press and visual communication. She has also worked in adult education, as an Organization Manager, but also in creative programs for Roma students. The Olympia Festival entered her life in 2011 and she intends to continue working on it until 2111. She directs the Festival's office in Pyrgos, although she lives in Amaliada. She enjoys cinema, travel and board games. And people with humor.
Email: spyropoulou[at]olympiafestival.gr
Athanasia Sfakianaki
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Email: sfakianaki[at]olympiafestival.gr
Natassa Skoubouri
She was born in Athens in 1985. She grew up in Pyrgos, Ilia. She studied at the Agricultural University of Athens and then worked in the private sector. She even remembers forever the first Olympia Festival. She loves cinema and children. She found them both at Cine Philip in 2008, along with people from the Festival who now have a special place in her heart. They were lost for a while, they met again in 2021, when she became a permanent member of the Festival team. She lives in Pyrgos.
Email: skoumbouri[at]olympiafestival.gr
Stavros Robotis
He was born in Pyrgos in 1979. He studied Computer Technician in Patras and worked in the field of IT for 18 years as an employee and as a freelancer. He has been working in culture and audiovisual media since 2001 as a radio producer, videographer and editor, while his short stories have been published in collective publications. Since 2001 he has been involved in theater as an amateur actor, and since 2015 he is a theater animator at the Greek Conservatory of Pyrgos, staging theatrical performances with children aged 7-18. He has been working at the Festival since 2022, with an emphasis on educational activities, for the needs of which she is constantly trained. He likes traveling, cooking, music, basketball, good company and of course cinema.
Email: robotis[at]olympiafestival.gr
Chryssoula Ladea
She was born in Amaliada in 1996. She studied Classical Philology at the Department of Philology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina and did a master's degree in Cultural Heritage Management at the Athens University of Economics and Business. She then worked in tourism as a tour guide and in the promotion and communication of tourist packages and as a secondary education teacher in the private sector. She has also worked as an oral history researcher at the NGO Istorima. Since 2022 she has been working at the Olympia Film Festival as head of the local network of Ilia. She is an amateur in theater and dance, loves children and loves to go to concerts, watch ancient theater and of course watch movies.
Email: ladea[at]olympiafestival.gr
Special advisors
Dimitris Spyrou
Dimitris Spyrou created the Festival in 1997, in collaboration with local authorities of the prefecture of Ilia. He was the artistic director of the Festival from its inception until the end of 2023 and put his stamp on the Institution.
He studied Theatre and Cinema. He first worked as an actor and screenwriter and then as a director and producer. In 1985 he created the production company "Faos Film". He has directed three feature films ("The Flea", "Dream on a White Background" and the documentary "The Mavromata") as well as 15 documentaries for television. He has written the screenplay for three television series, as well as historical documentary series. Since 1989 it has been particularly active in the field of "Cinema for Children and Youth". In 1992 he created the non-profit organization "Neaniko Plano" with the aim of developing the production and distribution of cinema for children and young people in Greece. Since 1991 she has been a member of the European Children's Film Association, in which she was twice elected member of the Board of Directors. In 2021 she was honored by CIFEJ (International Film Association for Children and Youth) with the Lifetime Achievement Award, as "the most important person in the history of children's and youth cinema in Greece". With FAOS FILM and YOUTH PLAN he has produced, co-produced or executive produced about 30 feature and short fiction films and documentaries. Since 1992 he has held dozens of film workshops for teachers and young people. She has taught the course of Screenwriting at the Interuniversity Postgraduate Program "Information and Communication Technologies for Education". He has published two novels for children and teenagers, a collection of poems and two books on cinema for children and young people. His short stories have been published in newspapers and magazines. His presentations on film education and cinema for children and young people have been presented in conferences and workshops.
Email: d.spyrou[at]olympiafestival.gr
Nikos Theodosiou
Nikos Theodosiou is a writer and director. He studied film in Athens and Paris. His work extends from literature to historical research with particular attention to the history of cinemas, as well as the history of the relationship between cinema and education in Greece. In cinema he is oriented to documentary directing with many participations in festivals. She has elaborated and directed educational film programs for children, has presented presentations at many conferences on audiovisual education of young people, publications in magazines and has led film workshops in Greece and abroad. She is a founding member of Neaniko Plano (Creative Group for the audiovisual expression of young people) and of the Pedagogical Group "Skasiarchio". He took over the responsibility of organizing and artistic direction of the European Meeting of Youth Audiovisual Creation Camera Zizanio from its foundation in 2001 until the end of 2023.
Email: n.theodosiou[at]olympiafestival.gr
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