Artemis Anastasiadou

Artemis Anastasiadou is a screenwriter and director from Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Drama and Theater Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Film Directing at the University of Texas at Austin. She has directed many award-winning short films, most of them in the US and in the English language. Her short film, "I am Mackenzie," premiered and won the Best Film Award for Texas Shorts at SXSW2019, and the Best Female Filmmaker Award in Greece. The film was screened in more than 100 festivals internationally (BFI, POFF Black Nights, among others). She has taught filmmaking at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Missouri at Columbia and she works as Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the American College of Greece.