Eirini Vianelli

Eirini Vianelli (1985) is an award winning director / animator based in Athens Greece. She studied Graphic Design (BAHons) at the University of the Arts London (Camberwell) in 2007 and received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 2017. She is an Onassis Foundation Scholar. Her short film Icebergs was Oscar qualified for 2018 after winning best animation short in San Francisco Film Festival. In 2018 she created the animation that works as a set for the Greek National Opera show of Lena Platono’s the Emperor’s Nightingale. Since then she has continued her work with the GNO with the Animal Assembly and Don Quichote ballet, while continuing to develop her personal films. In 2018 she became an ARTWORKS fellow. She works independently as an animator