Artemis Anastasiadou

Artemis Anastasiadou is a screenwriter and director from Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Drama and Theater Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Film Directing at the University of Texas at Austin. She has directed many award-winning short films, most of them in the US and in the English language. Her short film, “I am Mackenzie,” premiered and won the Best Film Award for Texas Shorts at SXSW2019, and the Best Female Filmmaker Award in Greece. The film was screened in more than 100 festivals internationally (BFI, POFF Black Nights, among others). She has taught filmmaking at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Missouri at Columbia and is currently working as Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the American College of Greece.

“To Vancouver” is her first short film shot in rural Greece and is following the neo-realist approach. Artemis worked in a small community in the island of Evia, employing non-professional actors and embracing the landscape, the local folklore, and the reality of the place within her narrative. She examines issues like sibling love, loss, immigration, unemployment, and environmental pollution in rural Greece, through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl.