Athena Mandis

Assistant Technical Director of Film

Room: Arts 1.35
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8788
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
email: a.mandis @qmul.ac.uk

Athena teaches practical modules on Film Studies Programme at Queen Mary. Courses she teaches at undergraduate level are:

Scriptwriting
Production Skills
Creative production
Documentary Theory and Practice

At postgraduate level

Documentary Theory and Practice

Athena also leads Mile End Films; a production unit in the Film Studies Department, giving graduates the chance to further develop creative and technical skills through professional projects.

This exciting new enterprise is to focus on filming events at QMUL, while also taking on special assignments off-campus. This was made possible through a successful application to the Prospects Fund, part of Queen Mary Innovations and Enterprise scheme

Athena is also a filmmaker, past work includes Return to Chiapas (52 mins Award winning documentary – RIFF 2005) Backroads (17 mins fiction) and more recently Fly Away (8 mins fiction shot on 16mm) Roxanne (12mins)

She is currently working on a documentary on the East End with ‘High Street 2012’ and developing a feature she has co-written ASTRA based on the novel ‘Affinity with night Skies’ by Astrid Katcharyan.