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Home
About
Who We Are
How did SIFFY Begin?
Behind the Scenes
SIFFY Posters
SIFFY Filmmakers
News from Instagram
SIFFY FILMS
AWARDS
2024 Climate Change
2023 Feelings
2023 SIFFY Sifnos
2022 Memories
2022 SIFFY Sifnos
2021 Freedom
2020 COVID Edition
2019 Color
2018 Philotimo
2017 Mother Earth
2016 Sea
2015 Kefi
2014 Mythology
2013 Clay
2012 Greek Hospitality
SIFFY 2025 Filmmakers
GIVE
Why Give?
2025 SIFFY Budget
Become a Major Sponsor
Sponsor A Child
Volunteer

 

ADRIAN ALMAZAN, SPAIN
ADRIAN ALMAZAN, SPAIN

A filmmaker and photographer based in Spain. Starting his career working in photojournalism and architecture, his work is mostly specialized in fashion, commercials, and social media. He also works in live shows as a producer, but his true passion has, and will always be, the cinema.

ATHINA PAPAFILIPPOPOULOU, GREECE
ATHINA PAPAFILIPPOPOULOU, GREECE

Athina studied filmmaking at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos and Computer Science at the University of Piraeus. She has been involved in various student films, shorts, and a few international productions, always eager to learn and explore ways to combine her diverse background in filmmaking and technology to bring ideas to life.

 

CLAUDIA BARBERA, SPAIN
CLAUDIA BARBERA, SPAIN

Cinematographer, illustrator and educational artist, born in 1991 in Sant Just Desvern. Degree in Audiovisual Communication at Pompeu Fabra College, Master in Cinematography at ESCAC, studies in Social Education at UOC and currently Master in Educational Research at the Autonoma College of Barcelona, where she specializes in the intersection of art and education. She’s one of the co-founders of Nadir, an organization that provides audiovisual education to children and teenagers. Since 2017, Nadir has collaborated with many other organizations and government institutions, and also developed its own film education projects.

ELIZABETH HUMMER, USA
ELIZABETH HUMMER, USA

A producer, director and educator. Her work has received two Emmy Awards and four nominations in children’s programming and five nominations for fashion content. Projects span production of a live after-school show for teenagers to covering fashion for Condé Nast. She has worked for Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, PBS (Cyberchase, In the Mix), and MTV, giving kids cameras to help them tell their stories.

ELOI SANCHEZ PALAU, SPAIN
ELOI SANCHEZ PALAU, SPAIN

Eloi is an actor, filmmaker and educator based in Barcelona. He has a degree in Audiovisual Communication at Pompeu Fabra College. He has worked as a filmmaker in commercials and is currently developing his feature-film debut. As an actor, he has worked in theaters in Barcelona such as Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and Sala Beckett. He’s one of the co-founders of Nadir, an organization that provides audiovisual education to children and teenagers. Since 2017, Nadir has collaborated with many other organizations and government institutions, and also developed its own film education projects.

HANNAH SCHULMAN, USA
HANNAH SCHULMAN, USA

Hannah Schulman is a filmmaker and artist based in Brooklyn New York. She currently works on independent film and music video sets as producer or assistant director. Last year she directed Selling Rabbits, a short film that premiered at New/Next Film Festival

JACK HIGGINS, USA
JACK HIGGINS, USA

Jack Higgins is an Albuquerque, New Mexico based writer and filmmaker. He studied film and digital arts at the University of New Mexico and graduated with a BFA in 2024. He currently writes and works on friends’ low and no-budget sets while in the postproduction/marketing phase of his debut short film, Bugman.

KATE PHILLIPS, USA
KATE PHILLIPS, USA

Kate Phillips is a heart-led filmmaker, writer, actor, performer and teacher from Houston, Texas. Her short films as a writer, director, producer and actor have screened at festivals worldwide and amassed millions of views online. Her work has been supported by the Houston Arts Alliance and Southwest Alternate Media Project. She has an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University and has taught and mentored filmmakers in New York and in Houston where she is on the Filmmaking faculty of Houston Community College. She leads community workshops and is committed to fostering embodied creative community. Previously she worked in the film industry in LA as an assistant on major motion pictures. Currently she is producing her first theatrical solo show and developing an episodic series.

KATERINA REKKA, GREECE
KATERINA REKKA, GREECE

The in-house editor for Alaska Films, she has played a large role in creating the SIFFY Documentary. She has edited many documentaries, commercial films and other audiovisual projects. 

KOSTANTINOS KAPEZANOS, GREECE
KOSTANTINOS KAPEZANOS, GREECE

Studied Physics at the University of Athens and filmmaking at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos. He's seen his fair share of film shooting and acting in student projects, short films, and even some feature films and TV series. The merge of science and filming shaped him to have no qualms with experimenting either behind or in front of the camera in his unceasing endeavors to integrate moving images with sound!

LUCA ACITO, ITALY
LUCA ACITO, ITALY

Creator and Founder of Studio Antani which develops concepts and create audiovisual solutions for business communication and cultural projects. They involve people with irony, poetry, a strong visual impact, and ideas out of the ordinary.

MOLLY RICHARDS, UK - SIFFY PHOTOGRAPHER
MOLLY RICHARDS, UK - SIFFY PHOTOGRAPHER

Photographer and mixed media based artist from the UK. Graduating from Manchester School of Art with a Masters and Honors degree in Photography. Her practice began in 2015, with a focus on the Darkroom process, and through time progressed onto digital. Through her studies and career this then created a life long exploration into the cooperative relationship between digital and analogue art forms. At present she is specialising in documentary and travel photography.

NUNZIO PAPAPIETRO, ITALY
NUNZIO PAPAPIETRO, ITALY

Began working in 2005 on documentaries in Italy for cultural associations. He then went on to create documentaries in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. In 2010 he began working as a high school teacher in Italy and is now the curator of https://www.istruzioneer.gov.it/media/video/. He is also the creator and president of the film association, Cinegrammi.

TAYLOR GION, USA
TAYLOR GION, USA

Taylor is a visual storyteller based in Brooklyn, New York. Her passion for film and cinematography led her to a degree in Documentary Journalism from the University of Missouri, and she has been focused on documentary production ever since. Her documentary film On Board about young female skateboarders premiered at three film festivals in the midwest, including the Kansas City International Film Festival. After graduating in 2022, Taylor moved to Dublin, Ireland and spent her time exploring Europe and pursuing film production internationally. After living abroad, she has settled in New York City where she continues to combine her love of travel and passion for film.

VALIA CHATZICHRISTODOULOU, GREECE
VALIA CHATZICHRISTODOULOU, GREECE

Valia is a film student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), specializing in production design. She has worked as a set and costume designer on multiple student and thesis films. Currently, she is developing her graduation project, a production design thesis for an experimental narrative short. Her artistic focus lies also in blending experimental and observational cinema, with a growing body of work in hybrid documentary filmmaking

 

ADRIAN ALMAZAN, SPAIN ATHINA PAPAFILIPPOPOULOU, GREECE CLAUDIA BARBERA, SPAIN ELIZABETH HUMMER, USA ELOI SANCHEZ PALAU, SPAIN HANNAH SCHULMAN, USA JACK HIGGINS, USA KATE PHILLIPS, USA KATERINA REKKA, GREECE KOSTANTINOS KAPEZANOS, GREECE LUCA ACITO, ITALY MOLLY RICHARDS, UK - SIFFY PHOTOGRAPHER NUNZIO PAPAPIETRO, ITALY TAYLOR GION, USA VALIA CHATZICHRISTODOULOU, GREECE
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