On 18 July 2024, the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the non-profit cultural organisation AEI Audiovisual Forum signed a Cooperation Protocol.
The signing ceremony took place in the Senate Hall, in the Rector’s Building of CUT in Limassol and the Rector Professor Panagiotis Zafeiris and the founder and Director of the HE Audiovisual Forum, director Stavros Papageorgiou, signed on behalf of both sides. Also present, among others, were Dr. Dia Evagorou, University Officer in the Communication, Promotion and Internationalisation Service, Asst. Professor Yiannis Christidis, President of the Department of Fine Arts and the Head of Communication of the AEI Audiovisual Forum, Giorgos Konstantinou.
The Cooperation Protocol mainly concerns artistic activities and includes, among other things, the organisation of the AEI Film Festival 2024, which will take place in Nicosia, from 26 October 2024 to 3 November 2024 and for the first time, at a time to be announced soon, at the premises of the CUT in Limassol. It also includes the creation by students of the School of Fine and Applied Arts of CUT of the introductory video for this year’s Seventh AEI Film Festival as well as the presentation of a Masterclass at the Festival by CUT Animation Professor Charalambos Margaritis on “Animation in Documentary”.
Both the Dean of CUT and the Director of AEI Audiovisual Forum expressed in their greetings at the ceremony, the intention that with its development, this cooperation will be strengthened by offering cultural activities and synergies that will contribute to education, especially in the film literacy and dissemination of documentary film, as well as to the general social artistic culture of the inhabitants of Cyprus.
The Non-Profit Cultural Organisation AEI AUDIOVISUAL FORUM (www.aei-filmfestival.org) was founded in 2019 by the documentary director/producer Stavros Papageorgiou. Its main purpose is to organise cultural and scientific events, such as the AEI Film Festival (International Festival of Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Documentary Films of Cyprus) and the educational activity “SYNEPADESIS” for students.
Source: Cyprus University of Technology | News and Announcements (https://shorturl.at/2dc8P)