Our Team
Erifili Missiou
Founder- Artistic Director
Erifili is an award-winning Filmmaker and Writer with a background in Visual Arts and experience in curating art shows in Berlin, Athens, and London. She is also a freelance Casting Director and works as a Film Programmer for Dublin International Film Festival and The Garden Cinema in London. She is the Artistic Director and lead programmer of EFN.
Mike Sheer
Host/Co-founder
Mike is a Stand Up Comedian who has performed around the world for over a decade. As the presenter of EFN's Awards Night, he uses his background to keep the atmosphere light without compromising the depth of the artists interviewed. Mike is also a Script Editor and Consultant, working with writers of short & feature films and sitcoms to develop and refine their work. He also develops and delivers workshops on story craft.
Ioanna Karavela
Operations- Festival Producer
Ioanna has been working as Producer since 2004. She has produced a number of short films, pop promos and online content for established but also emerging talent and has produced work for numerous productions, from factual documentary programmes for Channel 4, BBC and Sky to branded content, commercials, artist led multi screen installations and independent feature length films.
Helen Samuels
Helen is a visual artist and writer. She has a background in arthouse cinema operations, programming, fundraising and communications, currently writes for UK Film Review and is a member of Electric Women on Film.
Molly Cowderoy
Molly is a programmer at Leeds international film festival, working across the feature selection and the Academy Award qualifying International Short Film Competition. Molly is also the communications manager at the independent filmmakers’ network Shooting People.
Christina Papasotiriou
After graduating Film Studies and programming for community cinemas, Chistina joined Genesis Cinema's Alternative Programming team where she's been championing underrepresented filmmakers through Fragments Festival, as well as sharing her love for all things film through Genesis' programme.
Abla Kandalaft
Abla is a film programmer, journalist and translator. She currently produces a film programme on BBC Arabic and has worked for Radio France, the BFI and the Cannes Film Festival in various roles. She is part of the editing team of Mydylarama, a film web mag and official UK partner of the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and now co-hosts Mydylarama’s new film podcast.
GUEST JUDGES
Stephanie Watts
Steph has worked on multiple digital film projects including Channel 4’s Random Acts, Film4 and NBC Universal, creating and distributing film content. She produces Ghibliotheque, a podcast about Studio Ghibli and has written for publications such as Aesthetica, The Playlist and Little White Lies.
Zaira Zarza
Zaira is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at Université de Montréal. As a programmer, she has worked at the Toronto (TIFF) and Cartagena (FICCI) international film festivals.
Anthony Nti
Anthony is a Ghanaian-born filmmaker from Belgium. His short film, Da Yie, won the Grand Prix at the 2020 ISFF Clermont Ferrand. His first feature-length film ‘Postcard’ won second prize at the Sam Spiegel FilmLab. His TV-show, Clemenceau, was selected for Torino Series Lab.
Gerry Maguire
Gerry’s work includes development and delivery on multiple feature films across genre and arthouse. Gerry also leads Irish Film London, a not-for-profit organisation responsible for the Irish Film Festival London as well as year-round Irish film events across the capital.
Caroline Wilson
Caroline first came to the Film London network in 2018. Since 2017, she has started her own film platform UNDR LNDN with her community where they host events, screen films and support local filmmakers.
Suzy Gillett
Suzy has been empowering independent cinema talent for over three decades as a curator of film festivals, producer of international film script development labs, teacher of film programming at the Barbican Centre and experimentation in documentary at ESAV Marrakech and a Script and edit consultant.
Lucile Bourliaud
Lucile has programmed for various festivals, including Lille International Short Film Festival (France) and Regard Festival (Quebec). She is currently short film programmer for Flatpack Festival in the UK.