Fenia Cossovitsa
Chair

Fenia is a film and television producer working across Greek and international productions. Her credits include the Emmy-winning series Tehran (Apple TV+), Greek Salad (Amazon Prime), and Kabul (Alliance / New8), as well as award-winning films such as Digger by Georgis Grigorakis (Berlinale 2021), Hector Malot by Jacqueline Lentzou (Cannes Critics’ Week 2018), Monday by Argyris Papadimitropoulos, She Loved Blossoms More by Yannis Veslemes, and Patty is Such a Girly Name by Giorgos Georgopoulos. She has also collaborated with international filmmakers including Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Gatlif, Dominik Moll, and Cédric Klapisch. Fenia is a member of EAVE, EWA, and the Hellenic Film Academy.

Amanda Livanou
Vice Chair

Born and raised in Athens, Amanda studied at the London School of Economics (MA History). In 2014, she created NEDA Film and has produced, among others, Pity and L by Babis Makridis (Sundance), Park (Best New Director San Sebastian FF), New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilisation with Bill Murray (Cannes FF), The Invisible Fight by Rainer Sarnet (Locarno FF, European Film Awards), Buzzheart by Dennis Iliadis (Talinn Black Nights 2024) and Gorgoná by Evi Kalogiropoulou (Settimana de la Critica in Venice in 2025). She is an alumna of the Sundance Producer’s Lab, a member of the EAVE and ACE Networks and the European Producers Club. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Film Academy and is a member of the European Film Academy.

Konstantinos Kontovrakis
General Secretary

Konstantinos Kontovrakis has produced and co-produced more than 25 internationally acclaimed films, including Un Certan Regard winner How to Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker, Palme d’Or winner and Oscar nominated Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, Angela Schanelek’s Berlinale winner Music, and Semaine de la Critique winner Feathers by Omar el Zohairy, and The Return by Uberto Pasolini, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. He received the ‘European Co-Production Award’ (Prix Eurimages) at the European Film Awards in 2018. He is a member of the European and the Hellenic Film Academies, and the EAVE national representative for Greece.

Maria Drandaki
Treasurer

After working for several years as a producer and a communication and development manager in film and television, Maria Drandaki founded her own production label Homemade Films in 2009. She has produced and co-produced several successful short and feature films, including Syllas Tzoumerkas’ Homeland, A Blast and The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea, Yorgos Zois’ Interruption, Emre Yeksan’s The Gulf, Christos Passalis’ and Syllas Tzoumerkas’ The City and the City, Christos Passalis’ Silence 6-9. Her latest feature film productions and co-productions are Sofia Exarchou’s Animal (Locarno International Competition – Pardo for Best Performance 2023), Mladen Djordjevic’s Working Class Goes to Hell (Toronto – Midnight Madness 2023), Yorgos Zois’ Arcadia (Berlinale – Encounters Competition 2024) and Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Unknown (Directors’ Fortnight 2024 – Cannes). She is a member of the EAVE and ACE producers’ networks, the Greek Producers Association, the European and the Hellenic Film Academies.

Nicolas Alavanos

Nicholas Alavanos is CEO and Executive Producer of Filmiki Productions in Athens, Greece. Born in 1981, he studied Communications in the American College of Greece and completed his Master’s degree in filmmaking at the University of East London.

In 2008 he formed the Core, a trio director’s team, directing and producing fresh music videos & TV commercials. In 2010 he began to collaborate with Filmiki as a producer in advertising, film & TV production and soon his innovative ideas, communication skills and entrepreneurship secured him the position of CEO in the company. His main focus is in international co-productions seeking to expand the company even further.