The director

 

Danae Stylianou was born in Cyprus, in 1984. 

She holds a BA (Hons) Film Production from the University of Westminster, in London. Graduated 2004. She produces and directs independent documentaries and factual audiovisual content. She has also worked as casting director in cinema and TV, casting for films, shows, and TV ads for 15 years.

In 2011 she directed and produced her first documentary feature film, Sharing an island, about the inter-communal relations of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot youth. Sharing an island was screened widely in Cyprus and abroad, winning two awards for its contribution to peace in Cyprus and the world. In her 2nd documentary feature, A Haircut Story, seven stories emerge from the black hole of the banks, one year after Cyprus became the first Eurozone member state to be subjected to a bail-in on deposits.

Birth Days is a film about women’s rights to informed choices at childbirth.

In 2024, she directed - produced SKAMMATA for the Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Her films screened at international festivals (inc.Thessaloniki Int'l Documentary Festival, Mediterranean FF Rome, Drama IFF, Riga IFF, Interfilm Berlin, Montreal IFF).

Since 2011, she has been on the organising team of the major, state-funded film festivals of Cyprus -Cyprus Film Days IF (2012-) the Int'l Short Film Festival of Cyprus (2012 – 2021) and Lemesos Int'l Documentary Festival (2012 - ). In 2020, she was appointed head of Dot.on.the.Map Industry Days – the industry platform of Cyprus Film Days IF.

FILMOGRAPHY:

  • 2024 SKAMMATA, Documentary Feature (Department of Antiquities)

  • 2024 PENNA, Documentary Series (Press & Information Office)

  • 2023-4 Art in the City, Documentary Series (Press & Information Office)

  • 2019 - 2020 Baby Buddy Forward, Web Documentaries

  • 2019 OLGA’S GARDEN, short documentary

  • 2018, BIRTH DAYS, feature documentary

  • 2014, A HAIRCUT STORY, feature documentary

  • 2011, SHARING AN ISLAND, feature documentary

  • 2006, DOLLHOUSE, short film

  • 2004, ANKARA STREET, short documentary

  • 2004, SNOW WHITE AND THE 7 CHARMS, short film