Yota (Panagiota) Samioti is a photographer, writer, and academic based in Greece. She is a member of the WIFT.GR (Women in Film and Television, part of an international network of over 50 WIFT chapters on six continents) and co-founder of the artivist collective WINART.GR (Women in Art, NGO). She directed and shot her debut short film Inner Harbour (2025), a poetic meditation on resilience and inner grounding. She also wrote the script for the short film Still (2025). Her work explores silence, gesture, and imagery as spaces of reflection, balancing between visual art and cinema. (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17482114/)