Agora Lab: March 5-9, 2023

The Agora Lab (March 5-9) offers consultation and training sessions to young Greek filmmakers, during which Greek and international professionals offer their guidance to directors and producers currently in different stages of development or production. A selected project will receive the Paradiddle Pictures Guidance Award (Denmark).

This year’s Agora Lab features 6 documentary projects which are selected from the pool of applications of the Thessaloniki Pitching Forum and the Agora Docs in Progress.

 

1. ASPHALT
Director: Eleftherios Panagiotou, Producer: Sébastien Téot - Cellulo Prod, France

 

2. CUM AS YOU ARE
Director: Martina Almpakri, Producer: Polymnia Papadopoulou Sardeli - Kalibu Productions, Greece

 

3. IN THE SHADOW OF LAZIKA
Director: Nikos Kostopoulos, Producer: Vicky Zioga - PHĒNO, Greece, Georgia

 

4. KATERINA
Director: Alkisti Efthymiou, Producer: Mina Dreki - Marni Films, Greece

 

5. PAVE PARADISE
Director-producer: Alcaeus Spyrou, Greece

 

6. RETURN TO HOMELAND
Directors-producers: Akis Kersanidis, Chryssa Tzelepi, AnemiCinema, Greece

 

  

AGORA LAB - PROJECT COORDINATOR

Konstantinos Aivaliotis, Co-founder and Artistic Director/Program Coordinator of the Ethnofest - Athens Ethnographic Film Festival - Greece

 

AGORA LAB - TUTORS

Selin Murat, Markets Manager, IDFA - The Netherlands
Ieva Ūbele, Producer, Baltic Balkan Productions - Latvia
Bonnie Williams, Pitch & Public Speaking consultant, Speaking With Impact - The Netherlands