Sofia Georgovassili is an awarded actress and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. She is an Artworks fellow, 2020. Her lead part in Mavro Livadi by Vardis Marinakis, won her the best actress award at Seville European FF and Variety named her performance ‘remarkable as a first time thesp”. She is the supporting actress in Christos Nikou ‘Apples’ the Greek nomination for Oscars 2021. The movie opened Orizzonti section at Venice IFF 2020. Her first short film as a director, Preparation, had its world premiere in the section Short Cuts at Toronto International Film Festival, 2017. She travelled to many festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. Human condition and coming-of-age ground are at the heart of her films. She is now at the pre-production of her first feature film under the title Mignon, a trilateral co-production between Greece, Romania and France and for which she won ARTEKino International Prize at CineLink - Sarajevo FF. Mignon is also a Cinereach grantee, 2020.