Sonia Patrinou is a social scientist with an academic background in Gender Studies and pornography. Chulicha (2025) is her directorial debut.

Relevant academic publications on pornography include:
Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens Porn Film Festival, May 2024 Pornohistory: The Origins of Pornography, the Golden Years, and the Wars Over Sex (research and panel discussion)

Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens Porn Film Festival, June 2023 Pornohealing: pornography as a healing process for individuals with a history of sexual violence (research and panel discussion)

Patrinou S. (2019) Workshop: Feminism and Fylo/sophy, ''Virtual reality porn: virtual embodiment and the sustainability of a pornographic safespace", Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

Patrinou S. (2017) Pornohealing: pornography as a healing process for individuals with a history of sexual violence in Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research [online] Volume 3, Issue 2, pp.216-231 https://kohljournal.press/pornohealing