Πρώτο Βραβείο στην κατηγορία “Πειραματικός Κινηματογράφος”, με την “κινηματογραφική εκδοχή” της Διπλωματικής της Εργασίας
Με μεγάλη χαρά και περηφάνια μοιραζόμαστε μια ακόμα διάκριση μέλους της κοινότητας ΑΚΤΟ Alumni, που ξεπερνά τα σύνορα της χώρας. Η “δική” μας Αλεξάνδρα Μαυροειδάκου, αριστούχος απόφοιτη του πανεπιστημιακού προγράμματος BA (Hons) Game Design απέσπασε το 1º Βραβείο στην κατηγορία “Πειραματικός Κινηματογράφος”, των φετινών Βραβείων του Διεθνούς Κινηματογραφικού Φεστιβάλ Επιδαύρου.
Η συγκίνηση είναι διπλή, καθώς η Αλεξάνδρα υπέβαλε τη συμμετοχή της στην φετινή, 4η διοργάνωση, με την “κινηματογραφική εκδοχή” της Διπλωματικής της Εργασίας, με την οποία αρίστευσε στο 3ο έτος του προγράμματος σπουδών της στον ΑΚΤΟ.
Η ανακοίνωση των Βραβείων του 4ου Διεθνούς Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Επιδαύρου 2025, πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 15 Σεπτεμβρίου, σε ειδική εκδήλωση στο New Star Art Cinema.
Το Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Επιδαύρου, προσφέρει στο διαγωνιστικό ταινιών και σεναρίων τις κατηγορίες βραβείων: Odysseus Awards (since 2008), Cosmocinema Awards (since 2018) and Acting Code Awards (since 2022). Τα Βραβεία προσφέρονται σε συνεργασία με το London Greek Film Festival και το Acting Code Institute.
Επόμενος σταθμός της Αλεξάνδρας είναι η Ολλανδία, ως προσκεκλημένη του GALA Conference, καθώς το game της βρίσκεται ανάμεσα στα Top 3 του Serious Game Competition του Games & Learning Alliance Conference.
Της ευχόμαστε ολόψυχα καλή επιτυχία, σε κάθε της βήμα!
Λίγα λόγια από την Αλεξάνδρα, για το πώς γεννήθηκε το Up The Stairs
“…Sometimes, it is overly convenient not to speak. Other times, it is wise. And in some cases, speech becomes precious – a gift to those who possess it, and a gift to be bestowed…
This project was inspired when the tool of speech was suddenly altered within our quiver, when my brother was, without warning, confronted with aphasia after a stroke, but survived and stood up! We all did. We all have. And this is the journey of life. We keep journeying, and this project – from inspiration to vision, and from research to design – has been a journey itself… a journey within a journey within a journey.
It is both the boat and the sea, both the traveller and the travelled… the medium of expression and the tool to learn from scratch how to use words again, how to navigate, how to remember!
And I am not trying to be “poetic,” but this is how the experiences, the people, the tools, the feelings, and every encounter can be briefly outlined without losing shape or substance. This is what we are trying to do, after all, when we use words. We attempt to place worlds within words and dimensions within shapes. And this can be challenging enough all by itself, even when one does not face aphasia but simply wants to communicate.
On the other hand, there are so many abundant ways of communicating with one another and expressing ourselves that I feel I could not even make a complete list at the moment! All these are gifts. And it is a gift I wanted to create… or to be more accurate, it is a gift that wanted to be created – not only with the purpose to offer tangible tokens to the players, but as it turns out, it offered a lot to the designer herself.
The game evolved in order to achieve the player’s evolvement. “I”, as a game designer and as a human, had to evolve too. The journey of the first-person character in the 3D world came hand in hand with the journey of the designer, who lived in many simultaneous worlds and took many roles – creating the space and seeking the tools for forms to take shape, for what was asking to be born: as a tool and as a tribute, as a compass and as a companion.
I am very grateful for all I have received, for all I have learned, for all I have earned, for what is here with me – and this gratefulness is one of the greatest currents driving the boat in this ongoing adventure, In-Game and In Real Life… although it is questionable what is a game, what is real, and what life might be after all. But it all surely is to be honoured and celebrated …playfully!
So… I am not the same person who began this project.
But I am the one who completed it.
And now… maybe I am not even that anymore.”
