Evangelia (Lia) Tsalta

Evangelia (Lia) Tsalta is an Athens-based director and screenwriter. After completing her studies in Film and Television Directing at a private film school in Athens, she was selected to participate in NewSchool.Athens’ intensive filmmaking workshops in 2012, receiving a full scholarship from C. V. Constantakopoulos. She also completed a degree in European Culture at the Hellenic Open University in 2023 and has attended screenwriting workshops led by Nicos Panayotopoulos. Her films “The Forest,” “Magma,” and “Nothing and Everything” have screened at numerous film festivals in Greece and internationally, including Sarajevo Film Festival, Encounters, Brussels Short Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Go Short, Drama International Short Film Festival, and Athens International Film Festival, among others, receiving awards and distinctions. In 2019, she was selected to participate in the Sarajevo Talents programme. That same year, she was named an ARTWORKS Fellow as part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program.