Tzeli Hadjidimitriou

Tzeli Hatzidimitriou was born and raised in Lesbos. She is an award-winning filmmaker, visual photographer and writer. Her photographs have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, China, Italy, Turkey and Greece and have been published in numerous albums ("The Holy Water: Thermal Springs of Lesvos", 1996; "39 Cafes and a Barber Shop" ", 1997; "Conversing with the spirits of the stone", 2009 etc.). She fell in love with cinema, through seminars she attended with Michelangelo Antonioni, while continuing her studies in photography in Rome. From 1990 he started filming, photographing and writing about the lives of the people of Lesvos. Her book, “A Girl's Guide to Lesbos” (2012), is the first guide to the island that talks about the history of the lesbian community in the village of Eresos and its connection with the ancient poetess Sappho. She is a founding member of the Athens-based AMKE "Anemos Nairatis", which is oriented towards the creation of projects that suppo...