Athina Rachel Tsangari

Athina Rachel Tsangari is an award-winning filmmaker widely considered as a principal instigator of the Greek New Wave. She served as the projections designer and video director-producer for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, which won an EMMY for Best Live Broadcast. In 2009, she created the animation work “Reflections” (in-situ large-scale mapping projections) for the inauguration of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. She is the founder of Haos Film, a filmmaker-run company based in Athens, Greece. Among Haos’ producing credits are Yorgos Lanthimos’s films “Kinetta” (2005), “Dogtooth” (2009), and “Alps” (2011), and co-producer on Richard Linklater's “Before Midnight.” Tsangari has been filmmaker-in-residence at the Film Society of Lincoln Center; Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard, where she also taught as a visiting professor; DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin, while working on her stage directorial debut, Wedekind's “Lulu,” commissioned by the Salzburg Festival; and recipient of the 2017 Berliner Kunstpreis in Cinema, awarded by Berlin’s Academie der Künste. Her sophomore feature film “Attenberg” (2010), premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Best Actress ‘Coppa Volpi’ Award for Ariane Labed, a best female director prize across all Venice IFF sections, and further garnered several Best Film awards worldwide. “Chevalier” (2015) won Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for Best International Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Both “Attenberg” and “Chevalier” were Greece’s submissions for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. She is currently in pre-production on “Harvest,” a UK-US-German period film for which she was awarded the Arte Europe Grand Accord. Tsangari was director and executive producer on the BBC2/HBO MAX series “Trigonometry”, which premiered at the 2020 Berlinale Series competition to critical acclaim. She recently directed two episodes for Greg Daniels’s sci-fi comedy series “Upload” for Amazon Prime Video. Artistic Director of the annual Oxbelly Screenwriting and Directing Lab, founded in 2016 by acclaimed Greek producer Christos V Konstantakopoulos at Costa Navarino, Messinia, Tsangari is also a DGA and AMPAS member, has served as a jury member at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Sundance, and Toronto film festivals, and as jury president in Venice (Orizzonti), Götteborg, and BFI London.