Contemporary Balkan Cinema

Lydia Papadimitriou is Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek cinema, including (digital) film distribution, co-productions, film festivals and documentary. She has authored The Greek Film Musical (2006), co-edited Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities (2011), and is the Principal Editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture. She has published numerous articles in books and journals, including New Review of Film and Television Studies, International Journal of Media Management, Studies in European Cinema and Screen. Ana Grgic, PhD (University of St Andrews) is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at Monash University Malaysia. She has published on questions of identity, memory and archives in Balkan cinema. Her publications appeared in Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Short Film Studies, Film Quarterly, The Film Festival Yearbook and Cinemas of Paris. She co-edited two special issues: on Albanian cinema (KinoKultura) and on Central and Eastern European women editors (Apparatus). Her monograph on early cinema in the Balkans is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press.