CRISTINA KALLAS–KALOGEROPOULOU

She is a writer-producer, the artistic director of script development film commission “The Balkan Fund”, which runs in the frame of the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki, and a member and vice-president of the German State Fund FFA Commission for the financing of feature film development.

She is an elected member of the European Film Academy and of the German Film Academy, a member of the presidium of the Screenwriters´ Guild of Germany, a member of the Script Consultants´ Association and of the Cinelink jury of the Sarajevo Film Festival, as well as a media expert for the European Commission. She teaches screenwriting since 1998 at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, and since 2004 at the Film Department of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.

She wrote and produced a number of awarded feature films and has also written for television. She is the writer of two books: Her first one is on the subject of “European Coproductions in Film and Television” (Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, introduction by Dieter Kosslick), while the second one has the title “Creative Screenwriting for the Cinema” (currently in publication with Nefeli, Athens).