Asimina Proedrou was born in Athens in 1982. She studied music (2001), economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (BA 2005 and MA 2007) and film directing (BA 2013 at the Metropolitan College, Athens; and MA 2016 at the University of Staffordshire). Her short film “Red Hulk” (2013), which she completed (script, direction, production) as part of her undergraduate studies, won the Golden Dionysus at the Drama International Short Film Festival (2013) and the first prize for best short film at the Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights (2013). The film has been presented at over sixty international festivals, including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (International Competition, 2014), winning nine international awards. Her first feature film, “Behind the Haystacks”, which is expected to be released in 2022, was developed through the “Script Station – Talents Sarajevo” (2015) and “Script Station – Berlinale Talents” (2016) programs, as well as the “First Film First – Goethe-Institut Young Directors Academy” program (2016-2017), while it won the award from the Centre National du cinéma et de l’Image animée of France at the Crossroads Co-Production Forum of the 57th Thessaloniki Film Festival (2016). The film is a co-production of Greece, Germany and North Macedonia, and was completed, among others, with the support of the Hellenic Film Center, ERT, the Creative Europe MEDIA program, the South East European Cinema Network (SEE Cinema Network), the Film Organization of North Macedonia, the German television station ZDF-Arte and the European support fund Eurimages. He has been awarded by ARTWORKS (2022) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Support Program.
