Papadimitriou Nikolas

Ethnofest - Athens Ethnographic Film Festival

Ethnofest was founded in 2010, as a civil non-profit society with the purpose of organising the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, and with the greater vision to promote Documentary, Ethnography and Visual Anthropology and general the use of audiovisual media in social research, through a variety of activities and collaborations such as video production, distribution, workshops, lectures and other educational initiatives. The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, held annually each November, presents the best ethnographic films of each year, i.e. short and feature-length anthropological documentaries which are the product of research conducted by scientist of visual anthropology or relative fields. Visual anthropology is a constantly evolving field and severely under-represented in Greek academia, thus the Festival is essentially the only platform for such works as well as a meeting place for lecturers, researchers and students. Our valuable partners include the Ministry of Culture and Sport, University of Panteion, the British Film Institute, the Institut Français de Grèce, the Netherlands Institute at Athens, the Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Goldsmiths University and the University of Manchester, as well as the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and Stavros Niarchos Foundation.