IMMF 2024 : THE PRELIMINARY PHASE
The film submission period for the International Micro μ Festival 2024 is over. The organizing committee would like to thank all the filmmakers who trusted our festival once again with their work. For another year the number of applications for both the Greek and the international program have exceeded our expectations. This event fills us with optimism and strengthens us to continue our planning. All films are now available to the members of the selection committee. In September, we will announce the fifteen Greek films that will be screened and compete for the audience’s award live in our network of cities. At the same time, we will announce the films of the international section of of the Festival, as well as the final program and the other events of IMμF.
The members of the selection committee of IMMF 2024 are:
• Ismene Daskarolis: Director. Ismene was born in Berlin and grew up in New Zealand and Germany. She specialises in acquisitions and international film sales, script development, production and directing. Being a citizen of the world, her primary english education and global cultural knowledge gave her a keen eye for universal storytelling in the international film landscape. She was featured as "Future Leader" in Screen Daily's 2021 Cannes issue and in First Films First's Meet the Scriptwriters of the Goethe Institute. Her short films can be found on ERTflix, ERT International, ERT World, Apple TV and Indieflix among other platforms. She is an alumni of the Locarno - Thessaloniki Industry Academy, the MFI and Torino Film Lab. She worked in sales and acquisitions for Berlin based film Sales Company, Pluto Film, marketing and communication at Heretic (Athens) and acted as Jury Member for the Greek Film Centre. Her films and artwork have been screened and awarded in film festivals and museums across the world. Her articles have been featured in greek and international film magazines.
• Michalis Gkiokas: Visual Effects Artist. He Was born unknowingly on some early night of 1983. On a Summery late noon of 1994 he read the "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley while listening to Soundgarden's "Superunknown". He's maintaining and utilising that post-traumatic stress ever after.
Equivalently charmed by the deterministic and the transcendent. He studied Control Engineering along with an uninterrupted interest in the poetry of moving image.
He professionally prefers the term "Visual Effects Technician" instead of "Visual Effects Artist" and that's what he's reduced to for the last 19 years. Lives with two cats and occasionally a third one.
P.S He's also a Cinephile.
• Michael Demetrius:Director. Born in 1989, Michael Demetrius holds a Master’s degree in Theatrical Studies, specializing in Acting and Directing, Magister Artium with honors from the Open University of Cyprus (2019). He graduated with a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Greenwich, UK, also with honors, having first a Certificate in Film & Television Studies from New York College, Athens Campus. In 2020 Michael acted as assistant professor to Ana SanzMagallon at the Mediterranean Film Institute (MFI) for script and project development. Michael’s filmography is focusing on intrafamily relationships through socio-economic crisis by interconnecting and linking views, fears and hopes of the human soul. He is dedicated to the development and production of films, documentaries, and television series with a strong artistic gaze, addressing audiences worldwide. Michael directed the 16-episodes documentary series, «ΧωρίςΕρώτηση»/ “Without Question” (2016-2017), first shown on ERT2 (National Broadcaster). The personality and the history of each invitee is revealed nonstop – without a question – by using the technique of one-take. His films have won awards at many international Film Festivals.
• Simos Kiparissopoulos:Actor and Founder of the Micro μ Festival. He was born in Thessaloniki in March 1975. After attending the School of Technological Applications of the educational institute of Piraeus, he dealt with art. In 2005 he graduated from the Drama School of G. Theodossiades in Athens and he began practicing as an actor in theater, television and cinema. At the same time, since 2007, he has been working on the production and organization of artistic events and plays in Athens. Since 2011 he has been the manager of KATOPRON SA, through which he created the Micro μ short film festival, which is held for the last nine years in Greece and abroad. He is a member of the Hellenic Actors' Association and quite active in the field despite his continuοus involvement in the festival.