Alexandra Matheou

Alexandra Matheou is an award-winning screenwriter and director. She holds a Law LLB and an LLM from King’s College London and an MA in Film Studies from University College London (UCL). Her short films have screened internationally and her latest short, “A Summer Place” (2021), a Cyprus-France co-production continues its festival journey with awards and selections that include AFI Fest, Tampere, Odense, Frameline, and Palm Springs, among others. Alexandra is currently working on “Shibboleth,” her first feature film which has received a development grant from the Cyprus Film Fund, won the top-award at Crossroads Co-Production Forum (Thessaloniki International Film Festival) and the development support of Onassis Culture. In 2019, Alexandra also launched This is the Girl Films, an independent film production company. Alexandra is an alumna of Talents Sarajevo 2018.