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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitory situation, Anonymous Content has signed Cypriot filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou for representation.
Aristidou comes to Anonymous aft premiering her debut feature, Hold Onto Me (Κράτα Με), successful Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, wherever it won nan Audience Award. A co-production betwixt Cyprus, Greece, and Denmark, made successful information pinch nan U.S., nan movie follows an 11-year-old girl, Iris, who learns that her estranged begetter is successful municipality for his ain father’s ceremonial and wants to reconnect.
Aristidou’s debut short film, Semele, premiered astatine nan Toronto Film Festival successful 2015. The movie was screened astatine 70 festivals worldwide and won nan Special Jury Prize successful nan Generation Kplus conception astatine nan Berlin International Film Festival successful 2016.
In 2017, Aristidou premiered her follow-up short, Aria, astatine nan Venice Film Festival. That movie was made pinch nan support of Spike Lee, Canal+ France, and CNC, and later screened astatine nan Sundance Film Festival.
Aristidou holds an MFA successful Film Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of nan Arts and a BFA successful Film and Art History from Pratt Institute. Alongside her filmmaking career, she founded One Six One Films and co-founded nan Sagapo Children’s Foundation.
Aristidou continues to beryllium represented by UTA.
