Katerina Kaskanioti

History

Katerina Kaskanioti started her carrier in the film industry as a production manager and few years later she moved up to a top executive in one of the largest media and telecommunication companies in Greece, namely NOVA. As head of NOVA's first digital pay television in Greece and Cyprus, for more than 20 years she cooperated closely with Hollywood studios (Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Disney, MGM ) and internationally acclaimed film distributors. She negotiated and financed multiple content deals while she authorized the co-production of 135 Greek feature films including the most prominent and awarded Greek titles of the last two decades. Initiated major changes is the media landscape while she produced over 1000 live hours of televised program. Fostered change in Greek society culture towards gender equality and promoted women's empowerment through special film tributes, speeches in forums and various other initiatives related to women's presence in film and sports industries. Since January 2022 she is Executive Producer at Central Athens Film Productions. She has been elected President of WIFT GR (Women in Film and Television Greece).

Movies

The Enemy Within
The Enemy Within
Co-Producer
Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)
Alps
Alps
Co-Producer
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.
Dogtooth
Dogtooth
Co-Producer
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.