The podcasts selected for the Podcast Competition section have their eyes set on the Best Podcast Award, accompanied by a cash prize of €2,000. In addition, all podcasts taking part in the 27th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, both from the Competition section and the Out of Competition section, are eligible for the ENS Louis Lumière — French Institute of Greece Award for Upcoming Audio Documentary Creator. The recipient of the award will have the chance to attend the 6-week Sound Documentary International Summer Programme hosted by ENS Louis Lumière, in France, addressed to young professionals of the audio-visual field (authors of blogs, podcasts, or any other audio project). The members of the Podcast Jury of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival are Marina Danezi, filmmaker-producer; Evi Karkiti, journalist-radio producer; and Katerina Poulopoulou, journalist-radio producer.
Marina Danezi was born in Athens, in 1982. She studied Mathematics and Theater before shifting to film direction in 2008. Her work revolves around social and cultural issues, with a focus on minorities and subcultures, while also widely exploring the urban web and contemporary human geography. She has directed four short films and a full-length documentary, screened at numerous film festivals. Over the last years, she has mostly turned her attention to the documentary series Ta stekia: Istories agoraiou politismou (6 seasons) and Kleinon asty: Istories tis polis (3 seasons), aired by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT). She has also directed many video clips, having also served as a producer in various short and full-length fiction and documentary films.
Evi Karkiti is a journalist and radio producer. She is the host of the radio shows A Little Movement in the Street and the Shops and Café Voltaire are aired at 9.58 FM, the cultural radio frequency of ERT3. She is the founder and coordinator of the cultural society Thessaloniki Walking Tours, which offers cultural guiding tours both in Greece and abroad, as well as educational seminars and lectures. She is a graduate of the European Cultural Studies department of the Hellenic Open University, while she is currently concluding her thesis for her postgraduate studies on Creative Writing at the University of Western Macedonia. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines and collective volumes. Her book titled O Ieronymos stin erimo (Hieronymus in the Desert) is scheduled to be released by Kritiki editions.
Katerina Poulopoulou is a journalist specialized in culture, arts and the art of well-being, with a long stint of more than 25 years in the Greek radio. She is a daily contributor at iefimerida.gr, while also keeping us company every afternoon with her radio show at Athina 9.84. With a multi-year experience behind the cameras on TV sets and between the pages of magazines and newspapers under her belt, she was bound to succumb to the vigour and the freshness that podcasts brought to our lives.
