Ioanna Kryona
- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Ioanna Kryona studied Film Studies and History of Arts at the Freie Universität in Berlin. 2015 she completed her first short film, Postheimas, which premiered at the 38. Drama International Film Festival and participated i.a. at the 21st Athens International Film Festival. Her third short Vathikofto, a Greek/ Polish/ Indian co-production, was selected among 20 scripts to receive production funding by the Greek Public Broadcaster ERT. Her first feature film project Basalt, currently in development, received treatment funding by the Greek Film Center and participated at the Mfi script 2 film workshops 2020/2021. Ioanna has work experience as a programmer having curated the International Competition Section of the Duhok International Film Festival, Film O'Clock International Film Festival and Hellas Filmbox Berlin, for which she served as a Head of Programming for three years. Since 2016 she works as a script consultant. Her professional experience also includes production and PR for films in distribution. 2019-2020 she got selected and participated at the German Film Academy's DFFB training Next Wave for industry professionals.