Panagiotopoulou Penny
Producer, film director. Born in Athens in 1960, she studied law at the University of Athens and directing at the Stavrakos School, continuing with studies in directing and photography at London’s University of Westminster. Her films have been awarded at international festivals: Hard Goodbyes: My father premiered at the 55th Locarno Film Festival and won the Golden Leopard for Best Actor; her more recent September premiered in Carlovy Vary, won the best actress award of the Greek Film Academy and continues its successful award-winning course in major international festivals. She has taught directing at the Film Studies Dept of the University of Thessaloniki (2004- 2008). In ANALOGIO 2016 she created the trailer for the event and the video art for Fotini Tsalikoglou’s Homeland now – 8 hrs & 35 min.