Pola Bousiou
Film Director
Theory
Greek London-based scholar Pola Bousiou received her MSc and PhD in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and later her MA in screen documentary at Goldsmiths College before turning to filmmaking. In her practice-based research, which granted her an audioVisual PhD at Goldsmiths, she explores the relationship between anthropology and film by deconstructing her auto-ethnographic text in an experimental film narrative. In 2008, her ethnographic monograph, The Nomads of Mykonos, was published by Berghahn Books and she is currently working on her first feature length film, The Wedding Lament.
Practice
Forever torn between theory and practice, she eventually abandoned academia and in 2013 joined forces with the Paris-based production company KinoElektron, founded by Janja Kralj, to serve as its artistic director. She co-produced several films and was also a film scout for Australia’s Hopscotch Films in the early 2000s. In 2016 she moved to Newvision Films to work with veteran distributor and Hopscotch founder Frank Cox.
In 2018 she returned to Athens to convert her audiovisual archive into an ethnographic fiction film. This desire engendered the idea of a cross-cultural creative base which would defy genre/form distinctions in art and film as well as distinctions between theory and practice. And thus Loupa Film was born.
Marie-Pierre Macia
Senior Producer
MPM Film founder and producer, Marie-Pierre Macia began her career at the Cinémathèque Française (French Film Archives) after earning a degree in Classics and French Literature. Later she researched film preservation at the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, UCLA and the Pacific Film Archive in the United States, going on to join the programming team at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
She is a former director of the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) of the Cannes Film Festival, where she discovered and presented the debut films of such now-famous filmmakers as Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas (Japon), Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicides), and the Romanian directors Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu (with Marfa Si Banii and Occident respectively). She worked as personal adviser to Cristian Mungiu on his film 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2007.
She has served as jury member at numerous international film festivals, including Rotterdam, Mar del Plata, Los Angeles, IDFA, Amsterdam, and Locarno. At the Abu Dhabi Film Festival she set up SANAD, a film fund for Arab filmmakers.
In Greece, her home away from home, where she set up Agora and Crossroads, the industry part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Marie-Pierre, together with anthropologist Pola Bousiou and art and film curator Jacqui Davies, founded Loupa Film with an aim to further experiment with film, form, and its production.
Elena Athanasiadou
Producer & Loupa Officer
Elena Athanasiadou is a film producer and communications manager with studies in architecture and cinema. She gained her first professional experience at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival working for the PR & Events Department. In 2020, she moved to the Ministry of Culture in Athens, acting as the minister’s press officer and social media strategist. She later stepped into film production, working at first as a junior producer with the German production company ‘unafilm’, and then for Boo Productions as a producer and development manager for TV series and films as well as international co-productions in the development and financing stage.
She was an associate producer on the feature film Where We Live (2022) by Sotiris Goritsas and an executive producer on the short film Pigeons Are Dying When the City Is on Fire (2023) by Stavros Markoulakis which premiered at the Sarajevo IFF and was screened and awarded at major festivals, among them Clermont Ferrand ISFF, Palm Springs IFF, and Drama ISFF. She was also a post-production supervisor on the feature film Athens Midnight Radio by Renos Haralambidis (2024).
In 2023, Elena participated in the MFI script lab as assistant trainer and is currently an independent consultant and festival strategist for projects and films. She is on the board of directors of WIFT GR (Women in Film and Television Greece). In 2024 she joined forces with Loupa Film to serve its collaborative vision.
Jacqui Davies
Senior Producer
Jacqui Davies is a London-based producer and curator, working at the intersection of art and cinema, and the director of the production company Primitive Film, London. She has produced over 80 films across multiple contexts and platforms from art and cinema, site-specific commissions, stage and television. She has produced several feature films and was the sole producer of multi-award-winning Ray & Liz by Richard Billingham (2018).
Davies headed commissioning and production of the experimental animation programme ANIMATE! for Channel 4 Television (2004-2011), and was co-founder and director of Animate Projects (2007- 2011). She commissioned and produced 25 short films for Random Acts, Channel 4, by artists including Marina Abramović, Johan Grimonprez, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Primitive Film received the BFI Vision Award 2016-18; ACE Producer 2020-21; and Davies received the British Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Producer 2018, and was Bafta Nominated Producer 2019.
As a curator she has staged many exhibitions at the intersection of art and film including
Performance and Documentary at Nokolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen with CPH:DOX. Since 2023 she has been working on a series of joint curatorial projects with Daniel Birnbaum. Drawing on their respective experience and expertise, they have developed a unique practice that transforms the role of “curator”, manifesting itself in innovative ways across different projects in galleries, archives, libraries and leading art schools, their trans-disciplinary methodologies of exhibition exploring all forms of artistic production, dissemination and transmission, ancient and contemporary, from classical cinema to immersive technologies of augmented and mixed realities.
Davies joined veteran producer Marie-Pierre Macia and anthropologist-filmmaker Pola Bousiou to found Athens-based Loupa Film with an aim to explore new and innovative models of cultural production.
Pola Bousiou
Film Director
Theory
Greek London-based scholar Pola Bousiou received her MSc and PhD in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and later her MA in screen documentary at Goldsmiths College before turning to filmmaking. In her practice-based research, which granted her an audioVisual PhD at Goldsmiths, she explores the relationship between anthropology and film by deconstructing her auto-ethnographic text in an experimental film narrative. In 2008, her ethnographic monograph, The Nomads of Mykonos, was published by Berghahn Books and she is currently working on her first feature length film, The Wedding Lament.
Practice
Forever torn between theory and practice, she eventually abandoned academia and in 2013 joined forces with the Paris-based production company KinoElektron, founded by Janja Kralj, to serve as its artistic director. She co-produced several films and was also a film scout for Australia’s Hopscotch Films in the early 2000s. In 2016 she moved to Newvision Films to work with veteran distributor and Hopscotch founder Frank Cox.
In 2018 she returned to Athens to convert her audiovisual archive into an ethnographic fiction film. This desire engendered the idea of a cross-cultural creative base which would defy genre/form distinctions in art and film as well as distinctions between theory and practice. And thus Loupa Film was born.
Marie-Pierre Macia
Senior Producer
MPM Film founder and producer, Marie-Pierre Macia began her career at the Cinémathèque Française (French Film Archives) after earning a degree in Classics and French Literature. Later she researched film preservation at the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, UCLA and the Pacific Film Archive in the United States, going on to join the programming team at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
She is a former director of the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) of the Cannes Film Festival, where she discovered and presented the debut films of such now-famous filmmakers as Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas (Japon), Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicides), and the Romanian directors Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu (with Marfa Si Banii and Occident respectively). She worked as personal adviser to Cristian Mungiu on his film 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2007.
She has served as jury member at numerous international film festivals, including Rotterdam, Mar del Plata, Los Angeles, IDFA, Amsterdam, and Locarno. At the Abu Dhabi Film Festival she set up SANAD, a film fund for Arab filmmakers.
In Greece, her home away from home, where she set up Agora and Crossroads, the industry part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Marie-Pierre, together with anthropologist Pola Bousiou and art and film curator Jacqui Davies, founded Loupa Film with an aim to further experiment with film, form, and its production.
Jacqui Davies
Senior Producer
Jacqui Davies is a London-based producer and curator, working at the intersection of art and cinema, and the director of the production company Primitive Film, London. She has produced over 80 films across multiple contexts and platforms from art and cinema, site-specific commissions, stage and television. She has produced several feature films and was the sole producer of multi-award-winning Ray & Liz by Richard Billingham (2018).
Davies headed commissioning and production of the experimental animation programme ANIMATE! for Channel 4 Television (2004-2011), and was co-founder and director of Animate Projects (2007- 2011). She commissioned and produced 25 short films for Random Acts, Channel 4, by artists including Marina Abramović, Johan Grimonprez, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Primitive Film received the BFI Vision Award 2016-18; ACE Producer 2020-21; and Davies received the British Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Producer 2018, and was Bafta Nominated Producer 2019.
As a curator she has staged many exhibitions at the intersection of art and film including
Performance and Documentary at Nokolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen with CPH:DOX. Since 2023 she has been working on a series of joint curatorial projects with Daniel Birnbaum. Drawing on their respective experience and expertise, they have developed a unique practice that transforms the role of “curator”, manifesting itself in innovative ways across different projects in galleries, archives, libraries and leading art schools, their trans-disciplinary methodologies of exhibition exploring all forms of artistic production, dissemination and transmission, ancient and contemporary, from classical cinema to immersive technologies of augmented and mixed realities.
Davies joined veteran producer Marie-Pierre Macia and anthropologist-filmmaker Pola Bousiou to found Athens-based Loupa Film with an aim to explore new and innovative models of cultural production.
Elena Athanasiadou
Producer & Loupa Officer
Elena Athanasiadou is a film producer and communications manager with studies in architecture and cinema. She gained her first professional experience at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival working for the PR & Events Department. In 2020, she moved to the Ministry of Culture in Athens, acting as the minister’s press officer and social media strategist. She later stepped into film production, working at first as a junior producer with the German production company ‘unafilm’, and then for Boo Productions as a producer and development manager for TV series and films as well as international co-productions in the development and financing stage.
She was an associate producer on the feature film Where We Live (2022) by Sotiris Goritsas and an executive producer on the short film Pigeons Are Dying When the City Is on Fire (2023) by Stavros Markoulakis which premiered at the Sarajevo IFF and was screened and awarded at major festivals, among them Clermont Ferrand ISFF, Palm Springs IFF, and Drama ISFF. She was also a post-production supervisor on the feature film Athens Midnight Radio by Renos Haralambidis (2024).
In 2023, Elena participated in the MFI script lab as assistant trainer and is currently an independent consultant and festival strategist for projects and films. She is on the board of directors of WIFT GR (Women in Film and Television Greece). In 2024 she joined forces with Loupa Film to serve its collaborative vision.