Meet The Programmers

Maya Sfakianaki is a film curator with a focus on short content. She is a graduate of the University of Kent holding a degree in film studies and currently studying her Masters in Film Curation at EQZE. Since 2020 she has worked as a film programmer for the BFI Film Academy, London Short Film Festival, Drama International Short Film Festival and AegeanFF. She also works as a moderator and Q&A host for Thessaloniki Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam. With her curatorial and filmmaking work she focuses on themes of sexuality, intimacy and representation of eroticism in film. 

Born in Chania, Greece in 1994, Stavros Markoulakis is a writer/director and film programmer. He is a Locarno Industry Academy & Sarajevo Talents Alumnus and has worked in various positions in the Programme department of film festivals such as International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Thessaloniki FF, Leiden Shorts etc. His films are balancing between the real and the imaginary and have been presented in film festivals around the world like Sarajevo FF, Clermont-Ferrand etc.

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With several years of experience in film festivals and especially in major co-production markets such as IDFA, Visions du Réel, Thessaloniki, Jihlava, Qumra a.o., Antigoni also held the positions of Acquisitions for world sales company, Heretic Outreach, Project Manager for CIRCLE - Women Doc Accelerator focusing on project development. She is currently involved in the production of creative documentaries, in the selection committees of FIFDH, Anafi IFF, freelances as a consultant and project reader for workshops and markets while pursuing her personal photography work.

Political, Social and Cultural Studies graduate from the universities of Portsmouth (UK), Charles (Prague), Eötvös Loránd (Budapest), and KU Leuven, Belgium. Commenced professionally working in cinema as executive producers’ assistant at Origo Studios in Budapest in 2013. Currently producing her own projects with Avion Films. Pre-selector for Drama International Short Film Festival since 2020 and for ANAFIFF for 2nd year. Plant-based, Yogi, Climber and parent to a Weimaraner. 

Raisa is a transdisciplinary curator, artist, and researcher working across embodied curating, critical spatial practices, and community engagement. Her practice explores space, memory, and emotion through curatorial mediation, focusing on how public space fosters cultural and artistic commons.

She is part of various cultural projects, including the One Year Lease Residency, and is the founder of ASTRO, a creative archive and research collective.
Raisa holds a BA in History of Art and Visual Culture and an MA with distinction in Digital Media and Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College. She has curated several exhibitions in Athens, London, and Berlin, including Our Journey Continued, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and Comic Relief. Other exhibitions have featured in 48H Neukölln, VORSPIEL Festival, and Transmediale’s event series.

Born in 1992, she lives and works between London and Berlin.

Klara graduated from Freie Universität Berlin with a degree in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies. She has worked across various cultural sectors and is currently completing a year-long curatorial internship at EMST, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

She has been investigating dancefloors and club culture, through both academic and embodied research, exploring how the nocturnal can function as a vessel of enclosure that facilitates escape.