Later Aphrodites

Demeter Stavropoulos – Δήμητρα Σταυροπούλου
(1984, Greece)
Demeter is a Greek filmmaker (scriptwriter, director, producer, editor), she studied Archaeology and Filmmaking in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR and Digital Arts in Athens School of Fine Arts, GR through a scholarship by Onassis Foundation.
As a student, she experimented with various film forms (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, dance, art). She received an Honorable Mention by Scriptwriters Guild of Greece, she participated in Script Developing Workshop Four Corners MEDIA DESK, in Greek Film Center’s Script Development Program and in Sarajevo Berlinale Talents.
In 2017 she received funding by Microfilm Program of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, ERT S.A. for her short fiction film project Later Aphrodites. Supported by the Greek Film Center she participated at the pitching forum of Fest-New Directors New Films festival in Portugal where she received the Goldcrest Post-Production (UK) Award that contributed to the implementation of her short film. Later Aphrodites (2019) has screened in film festivals in Europe (Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, UK), Brasil, USA and Asia and received several awards in Greece, Cyprus, and Japan.
She is a Talent 2022 in Linz International Film Festival Academy, Austria with her short new film project Shakira the second of her fiction trilogy (Later Aphrodites, Shakira, The Giraffe Dance) in which the feminine element stands out. Her cinema, sensitive, is examining traumatic experiences. Her cinematic language combines film genres, includes elements of magic realism in everyday life and approaches the aesthetic validity of the mythological archetypes.

Filmography
-Later Aphrodites (Σύγχρονες Αφροδίτες), 2019, short, fiction. Awards: 2017: Goldcrest Post Production Award, Pitching Forum Fest New Directors New Films Festival/ 2019, Best Greek Short Award: Cyprus International Film Festival- Golden Aphrodite, CY International Premiere/ 2020: New Directors Award: Athens Digital International Film Festival, GR: / Best New Director Honorable Mention: Athens Marathon International Film Festival, GR: Honorable Mention: Ιnternational Film Festival of Crete & Awards, Ierapetra, GR /2021: Best Drama, Best Short Film Golden Harvest Film Festival, Tokyo, JAP Premiere. Other Festivals: 2019: Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival, Tisff, GR World Premiere/ 2020: GR: Peloponnesian International Film Festival, Nafplio/ Larissa International Film Festival/Chania International Film Festival. POR Premiere: Fest New Directors New Films Festival: Special Screening Fast Forward Section. US Premiere: Houston Greek Film Festival, 2021: SP Premiere, L'Hospitalet De Llobregat International Film Festival/ UK Premiere: London Greek Festival
-Emotions, 2017, short, video art, (MA Studies) Festival: No budget film festival, Athens 2019
-Ladies of War, 2016, short, video dance, (MA Studies) Festivals: 6th Athens International Digital Film Festival, 2017/ 9th Artfools, Larissa 2017/ 7th Athens Video Dance Project, 2017
- Rrose SeLavy, 2011, short, fiction (BA Studies) Festivals: Rrose Selavy ou Eros c'est la vie, French Institute, SYMBIOSIS? XV BIENNALE DE LA MEDITERRANEE-THESSALONIKI/ ROME - 52nd International Film Festival of Thessaloniki, 2011/ 2nd Ionian International Digital Film Festival, 2013/ AltCineAction! Online Balkan Short Film Festival, 2013.