Alkioni Valsari
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- Director
- Writer
Alkioni Valsari is a Greek director, born and raised in Kavala. Since then, she has lived in Wales, England, the USA, Athens Greece and Germany. She earned her BA in theatre studies with honours at the University of Wales, Trinity College and her MA in theatre directing at Rose Bruford College in London. She was part of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme in London and has attended filmmaking workshops in Athens at the School of Cinema and screenwriting in Lexington Kentucky and at the International Film School in Cologne Germany. She has directed theatre productions in Greece and the United States and taught theatre directing. In 2013, she wrote and directed her debut short film A Sound Story (2013). In 2014 she moved to Germany and is now based in Cologne working in film production. Her short screenplay, Tapetenwechsel ("A change of tapestry"), co-written by Kristen Ross, was a Grand Prize Winner at the Canada International Film Festival 2015, the Bronze Winner at the International Independent Film Awards Winter 2015, won the Odysseus Award for Best Short Script at the London Greek Film Festival 2014, and Second Place for Short Screenplay at the ReelHeART Film Festival in Toronto.