Filmmaker of the Week Athena Mandis
Episode 17 of Filmmaker of the Week with Athena Mandis:
About Athena:
Athena is an award-winning filmmaker and a lecturer in Film Practice at Queen Mary, University of London. She began her professional career as a dramaturg for the David Glass Ensemble (2000-05). This year I completed 2 high-end short dramas; LOSING GRACE and DAUGHTER – which are currently on the festival circuit. Losing Grace has won 6 awards to date and has just been selected to the Bafta and Oscar qualifying LA Short Film Festival. In 2018 she co-wrote, produced, and directed SOUTHGATE TO BRIGHTON, a comedy short. Her short script FOX was shortlisted for both BLUECAT and SHORESCRIPT writing competitions. This later developed into Losing Grace. She is currently developing 2 features – POLLY and XENOS. Xenos was first developed through MODERN TALES in 2017. It won best screenplay at Cyprus IFF 2018 and was selected to the Torino Development Lab in 2019. In addition, she has two further shorts in the pipeline THE RETURN (Finalist in Enter The Pitch Competition 2021) and THE SEA.
You can check out more on Athena on Instagram and Twitter.
Thank you for listening! You can check out our review for Losing Grace here.
Here is a quick snippet:
“The acting as well is excellent with Liz Farahadi as Louise bringing a heartfelt performance and adding so much depth to a mother desperate to escape a brutal life. The supporting cast stays just as strong, though with not a weak performance at all. An obvious amount of thought went into the casting.
There is a substantial amount of production value all around in this film and it shows in every scene. Mandis and her team have put a lot of care into this piece and shows from start to finish.”
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