Jury Members 2024
Psaroloco International Film Festival for Children & Young People
JURY MEMBERS 2025
PSAROLOCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
Katerina Chryssanthopoulou I Greece
Katerina Chryssanthopoulou is Post Doc Researcher in News Literacy and Young Audiences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; holds a PhD in Media & News Literacy (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); MA in Cognitive Sciences (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens); BA in English Literature (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens); BA in Informatics (Athens University of Economics & Business); and Diploma in Body Psychotherapy (Hellenic Center of Biosynthesis). She is published writer of fiction and non-fiction books. She works as Media & News Literacy Researcher, MIL Trainer, Writer & Conference Interpreter. She has designed and delivered training workshops for Media Literacy Institute, Stories Media Lab, Hellenic American Education Foundation and she teaches the Media & News Literacy Junior Club at ACG Pierce College, Athens. She is also adjunct professor at Ionian University. Her research topics include media literacy, news literacy for young audiences, digital reading, cognition & digital media.
Studded Betrayal (aka Christina Dimitra) I Greece
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Studded Betrayal (aka Christina Dimitra) is a multidisciplinary designer and award-winning illustrator based in Athens, Greece. Her work mostly explores childhood themes, evoking nostalgia and emotion through her creations. She illustrates children's books and hosts creative workshops for kids and adults in museums and cultural spaces across Athens. Christina is currently designing the set and costumes for the children’s opera Noye’s Fludde by Benjamin Britten, directed by Themelis Glynatsis, which will premiere in April at the Greek National Opera. She also works as an illustrator and animator for organizations such as Patakis Publications, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Onassis Foundation, and the Hellenic Children's Museum. Her latest animation, Lafcadio Hearn – Life as a Fairytale, was an official selection at the Animasyros International Film Festival, where it was screened in 2023, and it also received an illustration award at the Benaki Museum. Christina crafts oversized handmade teddy bears (soft sculptures) which she showcases in galleries and exhibitions. Since 2016, she has been running her own brand, Studded Betrayal, where her artworks and toys are featured in design stores throughout Greece.
Irma Avila Pietra Santa I Mexico
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Documentary filmmaker, information rights activist, and radio and audiovisual producer specializing in working with children. Founder of the “APANTALLADOS PROJECT,” which works on information rights, audiovisuals, and society through collaborative communication projects, participatory methodologies for critical media reception, and building citizenship. Always working in public media, she was the producer of the first participatory TV series in Mexico, “APANTALLADOS,” and creator of a festival of the same name that links information rights, technology, and children. Coordinator of spaces dedicated to children for the exhibition and creation of audiovisual media at the IMER in the context of the pandemic and the children’s section of the International Documentary Festival, DOCSMX Her work has been recognized by bodies such as UNICEF, UNESCO, and the OAS.
Effie Pappa I Greece
Effie Pappa is an Award winning Director (Animation and Live Action) based in Athens and London.
Her work explores characters and discusses universal themes depicting human concerns through allegory, absurdism and humour. Her films have been screened and awarded internationally; with her stand out film “My Stuffed Granny”, winning twenty Awards for Best short film (Edinburgh Film Festival, Tokyo Anime Awards, Palm Springs, Hamptons) and screening in hundreds, including ANNECY’s Official selection. Effie also directs selective commercials and music videos -
"Wild World" by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, and “The Little Elephant” by George Hadjipieris, are amongst the most popular ones, gaining more than 80 Million Youtube views. At 2022 her latest short “IN BETWEEN” is being released, and
a year later she directs Mailchimp’s “All in a Day’s Work” season 2, a six stop motion episodes series. At 2023, she lunches Dr.Happy Productions, and develops a 2D Animated Kids TV Show called “My Name is Lulo!”.
Her work is featured in Rolling Stone, BFI Showcase, Short of the Week, ABC and The Fader amongst others.