Athina Rachel Tsangari
Athina Rachel Tsangari (born 1966, Aspra Spitia, Greece) holds a university degree from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and two post-graduate diplomas: an MA in performance studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA in Film Directing from the University of Texas at Austin. Athina Rachel Tsangari is an award-winning filmmaker widely considered as a principal instigator of the Greek New Wave. She is the founder of Haos Film, a production and postproduction hub in Athens. Her sophomore feature film Attenberg (2010), premiered in competition at the Venice FF, where it won the Best Actress ‘Coppa Volpi’ Award for Ariane Labed, the Lina Mangiacapre Directing Award for Best Female Director across all Venice sections, and further garnered Best Film awards worldwide. Chevalier (2015) won Best Film at the BFI London FF and was nominated for Best International Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Both Attenberg and Chevalier were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Her new film Harvest, a revisionist western shot in the Scottish Highlands, premiered at Venice competition and was awarded the Arte Europe Grand Accord. She has served as a jury member at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Sundance, Toronto, Ficunam, Cinéma du Reel (Paris) and Visions du Réel (Nyon) film festivals. As jury president, she served at Venice (Orizzonti), Götteborg, and BFI London.
Filmography
Fit (short, 1994), The Slow Business of Going (2000), Attenberg (2010), The Capsule (short, 2012), 24 Frames Per Century (short, 2013), Venice 70 (TV mini-series, 1 episode, 2013), The Benaki Museum (short, 2013), Borgia (TV series, 2 episodes, 2014), Chevalier (2015), Seven Seas (doc., 2016), After Before (doc., 2016), 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing (2019), Trigonometry (TV mini-series, 5 episodes, 2020), Upload (TV series, 2 episodes, 2022), Harvest (2022).