OUR COLLECTIVE

Our community of partners and collaborators driven by a shared passion. We work together to create new opportunities and preserve Hydra's legacy as a global sanctuary for creatives.

As part of our established Greek non-profit, ArtCinema Greece, aims to cultivate an international community that champions and greenlights independent art and film from talented creators, regardless of their background.

Our year-round cultural program includes workshops, artist residencies, and grants that span film, art, music, and creative collaborations. We see ourselves as creative catalysts, providing the support, resources, and infrastructure to align with artists and creatives on ideas and projects at any stage of development, across all artistic disciplines.

As a European non-profit, we are able to attract funding from patrons, arts organisations, and governments to bring projects to life, leveraging our expertise, resources, and networks. With an expansive industry network of producers, we also help facilitate connections between filmmakers, creatives, and independent financiers.

We invite you to share your ideas and look forward to collaborating with you, please contact us here.

THE OLD CARPET FACTORY

RECORDING STUDIO & LIVE PERFORMANCE SPACE

Exploring musical collaborations in the live performance space. ArtCinema collaborates with one of Greece's premier music recording studios, the Old Carpet Factory.

As part of our ArtCinema Hydra programmes, we invited film industry professionals to visit the Old Carpet Factory, where they met with Founder Stephan Collerado-Mansfeld and his business partner, Greek sound engineer Vassilis Korres.

Together, they showcased the studio’s world-class resources, which have attracted top musicians who include Damien Rice. We also catalysed informal discussions with our guest, Creative Greece's new CEO Leonidas Christopoulos, a former musician, who's also excited to support the future of the Greek music industry and expand live performance opportunities with Greek based funding.

YOUTH ART WORKSHOPS

WITH HYDRA BASED ARTIST DIMITRIS FOUSEKIS

Hydra-based Greek illustrator, painter, and teacher Dimitris Fousekis, renowned for his academic illustrations featured in paleontological publications and antiquities for the Athens Metro, is also deeply influenced by Abstract Expressionism and the natural world.

In collaboration with ArtCinema Hydra, we host a series of art workshops for teenagers, aiming to inspire and unlock their creative potential.

Through individual and collaborative painting and collage sessions, participants create large-scale original artworks using a guided, intuitive, and spontaneous process. Encouraging experimentation, we aim to transmute the daily life of Hydra, activating the shared subconscious and discovering new creative realms of expression.

This project was first introduced during ArtCinema Hydra 2024 with the ‘Beetlejuice Project’. Collaborating with local venue partners and coinciding with our screening of the film ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ during our October event.

ARTIST STUDIO TOURS

CURATED & PRIVATE TOURS OF ARTIST STUDIOS

We work with local Hydra artists to open their private and often sacred home studios more frequently to the public.

This initiative allows visitors to discover the remarkable works being created on the island, which may lack gallery space but certainly not talent. ArtCinema aims to continue fostering these relationships, engaging in conversations with these artists to explore further collaborations and creative dialogues.

You can find the full list of participating artists here.

FILMMAKER NETWORKS

MENTORING & SUPPORTING EMERGING TALENT

Filmmaker Oliver Bruck, one of ArtCinema’s inaugural filmmaker alumni, has been mentored and supported by ArtCinema as he prepares his film Mirella for distribution, which he is now actively seeking.

During the ArtCinema Hydra’s 2024 event, we presented a 10-minute excerpt from Oliver’s feature-length documentary on legendary African-born Italian photographer Mirella Ricciardi, whose 1971 book Vanishing Africa immortalized the beauty and dignity of African life.

In addition to showcasing Oliver’s work, we offered sneak peeks of upcoming projects in Greece, featuring collaborations with both co-productions and independent producers.

As part of filmmaker alumni, we support filmmakers with industry networking as well as advise on any stage across the production, including financing, distribution and sales.

ARTIST & PATRONS LUNCHES

ARTIST, PATRON, INVESTOR & GUEST NETWORKING EVENTS

During our programmes ArtCinema hosts lunch and dinner networking events, bringing together artists, patrons, investors and members of our community in a curated setting designed to foster the exchange of ideas, discover new work, and encourage patronage and investment.