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Marios Psaras

Marios Psaras

BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAFIJA
Marios Psaras is Cultural Officer at the Cyprus Cinema Office. He holds a PhD in Film Studies from Queen Mary University of London. He taught film studies at leading universities in the UK and Cyprus. He was Cultural Counsellor at the Cyprus High Commission in London, UK (2018-2022) and artistic director of the Cyprus Short Film Day London (2016-2021). Psaras has published extensively on Greek and European queer cinema, including the monograph "The Queer Greek Weird Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, London 2016) and has lectured widely across Europe. He has produced and directed award-winning shorts and has worked in TV, radio and theatre production. Psaras is a member of the European Film Academy, the Hellenic Film Academy, national representative at Eurimages and the SEE Cinema Network and a regular editor/reviewer for international academic journals and publishing houses.
Marios Psaras radi u Kiparskoj filmskoj kancelariji, Odeljenje za savremenu kulturu Kipra. Posjeduje doktorat iz Filmskih studija sa Queen Mary University of London. Predavao je filmske studije na vodećim univerzitetima u Velikoj Britaniji i na Kipru. Bio je kulturni savjetnik u Visokom komesarijatu Kipra u Londonu, Velika Britanija (2018-2022) i umjetnički direktor Cyprus Short Film Day London (2016-2021). Psaras je objavljivao radove o grčkoj i evropskoj queer kinematografiji, uključujući monografiju "The Queer Greek Weird Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, London 2016) i često je predavao širom Evrope. Producirao je i režirao nagrađivane kratke filmove i radio je u televizijskoj, radio i pozorišnoj produkciji. Psaras je član Evropske filmske akademije, Helenske filmske akademije, nacionalni predstavnik u Eurimages-u i SEE Cinema Network-u i redovni urednik/recenzent za međunarodne akademske časopise i izdavačke kuće.