Rea Walldén is a filmmaker, a film theorist, and Assistant Professor of Film Direction and Editing in the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema at the University of Athens, Greece. Her research interests focus on avant-garde and experimental cinema, feminism, and film education. She has served on the Board of Directors of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, and Women in Film and Television Greece. She has co-written the film Thief or Reality directed by Antoinetta Angelidi. She has directed the documentaryportrait of Angelidi Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality.
Maria Kourkouta is a filmmaker, editor and producer, born in 1982. She studied history in Greece and film aesthetics in France (Sorbonne Nouvelle and Paris 7). Since 2010, she has been an active member of French artist-run celluloid film laboratories, where she discovered the technical, aesthetic and political implications of experimental and independent cinema. Her films have been awarded and screened in various festivals, film museums and theaters. Alongside her film work, she has presented video installations in several museums around the world, taught 16mm film practice and worked as a programmer and postproduction assistant for short films.
Jacqui Davies (Primitive Film) is a London-based producer and curator working at the intersection of art and cinema. She works across platforms, including art gallery exhibitions, broadcast, cinema, and site-specific contexts— commissioning over 60 artists’ films for Channel 4 and premiering artists’ films at Cannes and Locarno, including the BAFTA-nominated Ray & Liz (2018) by Richard Billingham. Jacqui, a BFI Vision Award recipient, is a BAFTA nominee and won Best Breakthrough Producer at the British Independent Film Awards for Ray & Liz. She is a member of the ACE Producers Network and has produced works with artists including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ben Rivers, Pauline Curnier Jardin and Diego Marcon, among others.