Athina Chatzigiannaki is a filmmaker with a background in video making related to her art, (painting, sculpture and visual arts) as well as theater practice.
In 2003, she was selected to participate in the Medi@erra festival with a video which was the backdrop for the theater performance "Moving Word" which she created in 2001, sponsored by the Municipality of the Aegean Sea as remembrance to the poet Odesseas Elitis.
She has been working since in several art projects in different disciplines.
In 2017, she was part of a group of artists who were funded by Documenta 14. This collaboration resulted in the creation of ACA (Artist Cooperative Athens). The manifesto and art projects such as the interactive theatre performance “Embloki” directed by her were presented in the public program events in Athens ( In the Cv detailed one can see her long term involvement in thetre performances and experiments in visual arts).
She made a featurette (49.02min.) in 2019, "Selfie World", which allowed her to study filmmaking in the University of Sydney, giving her the chance to get to meet the culture and the issues around it in the country where she was born but taken away from when she was five.
Now, a year after graduation, she has a new short on its way to festivals called The Date (by the book), which mared the way of beginning to make films without the support of a school. She is looking forward to what the future will bring as a next step.

Artist statement
Athina Chatzigiannaki was led to filmmaking after a long career in visual arts and performance which now serves as a background and a source to draw from, in her new endeavours. She believes that film expresses best now her need for immediacy in a rapidly changing environment but also the art element in contacting an audience, while searching for the essential and its momentum.