Evi Tzortzi graduated with honors from the State Drama School of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki. Further studies in acting, dancing and singing in New York. She is involved with theater, singing and dancing,especially Butoh dancing,and in the past few years has danced in several Butoh performances with respectable dancers of this genre,such as Masaki Iwana,Yumiko Yoshioka και Atsushi Tacenouchi.

Her first video art dance “antanaclasis” has participated in many video art and dance on screen festivals all over the world, such as International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy in France, Dance on Camera Film Festival in New York, U.S.A. and Loikka Dance Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland among others. It has been also transformed into a live performance for Thessaloniki Performance Festival, parallel program of “biennálle:3, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art”, September 2011. The same video is the keystone of the dance theater performance “m.e.t.a.” that Evi Tzotzi created in collaboration with the choreographer Stefanie Tsakona and has been presented in Athens, Patras and Thessaloniki, Greece.

She is also acting on film and theater. Her second video dance was “La Quarantine”, created during the first wave of Covid-19 era, spring 2020. Her third video dance and video performance “Anachronism”, was created for Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki. “7 veils” is her new work, created within the Dialogues 7-Mycelium Project, part of Dialogues: A Hybrid Art Project. It is co-directed with Giorgos Alexakis.

King Louie is a Queer, Filipino-Canadian, producer-director committed to uncompromising visions that challenge conventional paradigms. He works to encourage dialogue and foster community through his films. Over the years, King has produced projects that have been screened at local and international film festivals. He is an alumna of the 2024 CFC Norman Jewison Film Program: Director’s Lab.

As a writer-director, King’s credits include NENE (Standout Director at the 21st Reelworld Film Festival) and STAY (Runner-up for the Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at Out on Film: Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Fest). His latest directorial work is INANG REYNA, which was created during his residency at the Canadian Film Center.

As a producer, King’s credits include CROSSROADS, which was acquired by Viddsee, LOST BENEATH THE STARS (Warsaw 2018, Edmonton 2018), which was bought at Cannes Film Market by RTE Ireland for network and online distribution and secured European theatrical and online distribution with Sofy TV. He also produced THE LONELIEST BOY IN THE WORLD (featured on Directors Notes). His latest produced short, AUGANIC, won ‘Best Live-Action Short’ at the deadCenter Film Festival and is in consideration for the 97th Oscars.

King Louie works in the visual effects industry as a Production Manager. Recent credits include THE LAST OF US S1 (HBO), which won the 75th Emmys for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

Hoda Taheri, born in Iran in 1992, is an Iranian refugee filmmaker based in Berlin. Her first short film, Mother Prays All Day Long, won a special mention at the Locarno Film Festival 2022 and was nominated for the German Short Film Award. Her second short film, As If Mother Cried That Night, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival 2023. Her debut feature film, I’ll Plant My Hands in the Garden, is in developement stage at the moment. It is a co-direction project with Boris Hadžija, which has been selected by Locarno residency 2023.

Boris Hadžija is a Serbian filmmaker and musician born in 1990 in Yugoslavia and currently living in Berlin. His most recent works include the film As If Mother Cried That Night (2023 / World Premiere: Locarno Film Festival), as a writer and editor, Yugotransport (2023 / World Premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam), as a writer and director, and Mother Prays All Day Long (2022 / World Premiere: Locarno Film Festival), as a producer. He was nominated for the German Short Film Award. His debut feature film, I’ll Plant My Hands in the Garden, a co-direction project with Hoda Taheri, has been selected by Locarno residency 2023.