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Penelope Zouganeli (she/ her) is a greek filmmaker based in East London. 

She competed her studies In Genetics in England where she was organising music events for students. This is when she started experimenting with editing, set design and graphic communication design for the first time. Soon after her graduation she decided to enrol in Central Saint Martins to pursue a career in Graphic Design. It is while there that she won a photography competition winning her a grand to study in Metfilm School in London. She used her grand for a foundation course in Filmmaking where she completed her first film, AMNION, as a director.

She is influenced by the Greek Weird wave and likes to showcase the uncomfortable, mundane but yet humane side of life.  After completing her film, she joined "Cinemadamare", a traveling film festival around Italy.

She created 9 films as director with various collaborators. One of which was Giuseppe Circelli with whom they created a trilogy of poetry short films “Trilogy of life, death and art” consisting of Anthology of nine souls on their way to death, Por El Cuello and Alexandria. After the success in Cinemadamare she was invited to join an exclusive scriptwriter camp in Italy where she collaborated with script writers from across the world to write 3 scripts in 3 weeks. 

Professionally she started as a runner and production assistant in multiple projects and she has been Training and working as an Assistant Director. Her all around understanding of the set dynamics allows her to support directors bring their vision to life while maintaining a lighthearted and passionate approach to the whole experience of making a film. 

Having gained all around experience in many productions, she now is a freelance Assistant Director and is training as a Spark. 

Filmography :

AMNION (2020)

BEAT(2021)

ASSIST (TBA)

Anthology of Nine souls on their way to death (2021)

Por el cuello (2021)

Alexandria (2021)

Hermanos (2021)

NADA (2021)

IMdB account:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1303124