BIO | Asimina Proedrou | Writer – Director – Producer

 

Asimina is a writer-director and producer based in Athens, Greece. She studied Music, International Economics and Film Directing, while working for the finance department of a large international corporation for over ten years.  

 

Asimina's short film, RED HULK (2013) won the Best Film Awards at Greece's two most prestigious short film festivals, was selected for numerous international film festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, and received seven international awards. 

 

Her debut feature, BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS (2022), critically acclaimed, was Greece's contender for the 96th Academy Awards, and among the 40 Best Fiction Films nominated for the European Film Awards. The film won 10 Iris Awards at the 2023 Hellenic Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenwriter, setting a record with 17 nominations-the highest in the institution's history. Among other accolades, it won six awards at the Thessaloniki IFF, the Best Debut Feature Awards at the IFF of India (Goa), and was selected for several major international film festivals, including Palm Springs. The film was a significant success in Greece, with a theatrical release for over 30 consecutive weeks and hundreds of thousands of VOD streams, while it was distributed in over 20 countries, reaching major platforms and broadcasters such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, ARTE, ZDF and Filmin. 

 

Asimina is currently working on her second film, HYSTÉRA, which has received development awards at leading co-production markets, including Cinelink Sarajevo, and was selected for the International Financing Forum of the Toronto IFF. She is also developing her first international TV political thriller series, BENEATH THE SURFACE, selected for the Series Mania Writers Campus and Sarajevo Cinelink Drama.  

 

Asimina is an alumna of Sarajevo Talents and Berlinale Talents, a member of the European Film Academy, and currently serves as Vice President of the Hellenic Film Academy.