Amanda Livanou

Born and raised in Athens, she moved to London to study at the London School of Economics. She returned to Greece after 5 years and started working at the Filmiki Company,
one of the oldest production companies in Athens, in the production of TVCs, films and television.

From 2002 to 2004 she worked at the Greek Film Center as special advisor to the Director for international relations and special projects.
She then moved on to work as a freelance independent producer, something she has been doing for the past 12 years.

She has produced and co-produced about 15 feature films and documentaries and has also worked in numerous foreign films that were produced in Greece.
She has also produced news programmes for television and music events both for live audiences and TV broadcasting.

She is a graduate of the EAVE Producer’s Training Programme, EAVE+ and an alumni of the Sundance Producers Lab in Utah, USA (2014).
From October 2013 to December 2016 she served as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Film Academy.
She is a member of the European Film Academy .

In 2014 she created NEDA Film.

She speaks English and French.

She has been awarded for her work as a producer from the Hellenic Film Academy for the feature documentary
"They Glow in the Dark" by Panagiotis Evangelidis (Best Doc, 2014 HFA).

Past productions include

"BackDoor" (2000) by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos.

"Athens Blues" (2001) by Yorgos Panoussopoulos.

"Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I put a Spell On Me" (2002) by Nicholas Triantafyllidis.

"Guardians of Time" (2003) by Margarita Manda, FIPRESCI Documentary Special Mention, Thessaloniki Film Festival 2003.

"Chip & Ovi" (2008) by Panagiotis Evangelidis Documentary, short. Presented at the Thessaloniki FF & many LGBT festivals.

"Arcadia Lost" (2010) by Phedon Papamichael, Produced by Chambers Productions. Line Producer.

"The Life & Death of Celso Junior" (2011) by Panagiotis Evangelidis. Documentary, short.
Presented at Thessaloniki IFF, Reykjavik IFF, Montreal Forum des Nouvelles Images, Frameline San Fransisco and many LGBT festivals.
Guests (2011 - 1012), Documentary series for Greek Public Television (ERT).

"L" (2012) by Babis Makridis. World Drama competition, Sundance FF, Rotterdam Tiger Awards, Seattle FF, Mumbai FF, Copenhagen FF,
Melbrourne FF, IndieLisboa, Mostra de Sao Paolo. Grand Prix, Molodist FF (Kiev, Ukraine 2012) Awards: Grand Prix, Molodist FF, Kiev 2012.

"They glow in the Dark" (2013) by Panagiotis Evangelidis, Feature Documentary. FIRPESCI Award,
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2013). Winner, Best Documentary, Hellenic Film Awards 2014.

"Park" (2016) by Sofia Exarchou, in collaboration with Madants Films (Poland).
Winner, Best New Director Award, San Sebastian FF 2016.
Winner, Best Film Award, European Film Festival Palić.
Presented in competition in TIFF, BFI, Warsaw, CPH Pix, Reykjavik, Thessaloniki, San Fransisco,
Bafici, Geneva, Stockholm, Seoul, Rotterdam, Linz and more. Represented internationally by Stray Dogs.

"Pity" by Babis Makridis. In co-production with Madants Film, Poland. Supported by Eurimages.
In post-production. Represented internationally by New Europe Film Sales.

"Manuscript" & "Virgin’s Temple" (2017) by Eva Stefani. Video Art commissioned for documenta14, for the Athens and Kassel exhibition.

"Days & Night with Dimitra K", by Eva Stefani. Feature documentary in co- production with ERT (Greek public television).

"Irving Park", by Panagiotis Evangelidis. Feature documentary. In editing.