Natasha Blatsiou is a documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. She has directed and produced short films that premiered and were awarded in international documentary festivals. She has also produced and directed short videos for media outlets. Her award-winning short stories have been included in anthologies of fiction. Her most recent work includes Titi – In cyclone’s wake (premiered at Athens IFF, 2023) and the sound documentary podcast Along the River (premiered at Vovousa Festival, Greece, 2023). She had a long-standing career as a journalist and editor at Greek Kathimerini newspaper magazines and researcher for Greek and international media. Today she works as a freelancer in the fields of documentary writing, research and filmmaking. Blatsiou was a Fulbright Artist Scholar at Open Documentary Lab/MIT (2022-2024) and a Fellow at the international artistic research program Onassis AiR (2023). She has attended the documentary summer school of NTFS (London), been a part of the Summer Documentary Lab at UNIONDOCS in Brooklyn (2017) and the European Social Documentary training initiative (2020). She holds a BA in International and European Economics and a MSc in International Relations and Strategy.
While at OpenDocLab, Blatsiou is working on UNWRITTEN LAND, an interactive transmedia project portraying the wild and pristine mountains of Agrafa (Greece) and its people under the looming spectre of a massive wind farm project.