Natalia has worked in the field of forced migration since 2017 in  Thessaloniki, Athens, Lesvos, London and Tel Aviv, with international organisations such as UNHCR, the Red Cross and the EU. She noticed limits to working with established large-scale programmes of humanitarian relief, namely because of their short-term and top-down approaches. That’s why, she started exploring intersectional methods offering a more holistic outlook to the complexities of forced migration. She supported the launch of the festival Refugee Week Greece and is an MA SOAS graduate in Migration, Diaspora studies with Intensive Persian, and currently works in the charity sector in London. As a creative, she believes that art can be used as a medium to connect people and places.

 

With Pixida Films, Natalia aspires to bring forward discussions and experiences that can change the way people relate to the subject of migration and to each other.

Theodoti works as a copywriter and has graduated with an MA in Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media from University of Groningen. In her MA thesis she explored the Greek Road Movie Genre in both Greek and global context, while investigating the genre’s themes, aesthetics, representations and spatial practices. 

Her research interests revolve around geographies of cinema, and the concepts of national and transnational cinema. She is passionate about film, loves writing long-read magazine essays and film reviews, and has co-founded a podcast about all things Athenian Youth. 

 

Joining Pixida films, she aspires to explore further the themes of migration, mobilities, spatialities, and their complexities within filmic space.

Effie has worked with disabled people for many years and is passionate about Disability Rights and Inclusion. She is the founder and director of KINOEMA, a film society that promotes cinema accessibility and gives a platform to disabled film-makers in the UK.  

 

She worked on the inaugural film programme of Refugee Week Greece 2023 and is a member of the screeners committee for film festivals such as Cornwall, Norwich and Catalyst International Film Festival in Ireland. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis and film and in 2023 was selected to participate in the Barbican cinema’s Emerging Film Curators Lab.

 

Joining Pixida films as a film curator, she aspires to explore the narratives of migration in film and navigate the multilayered connections between people, places and stories.