Alexandra Matheou is a screenwriter and director. She holds an LLB and LLM from King’s College London and an MA in Film Studies from University College London (UCL). Her short films have screened internationally, with her latest, A Summer Place (2021)—a Cyprus-France co-production supported by the CNC—earning selections and awards at major festivals worldwide. Her upcoming short, Free Eliza (The Wondrous Story of an Anatomical Anomaly), is currently in pre-production with the support of Onassis Culture and the Cyprus Ministry of Culture.

Her debut feature, Shibboleth, is in the financing stage with backing from Onassis Culture, the Cyprus Film Fund, and MEDIA mini-slate. With Shibboleth, Alexandra won the top award at the Crossroads Co-Production Forum (Thessaloniki International Film Festival) and the Producer’s Network Award at the Cannes Film Festival (2022).

An alumna of Talents Sarajevo (2018), she founded This is the Girl Films in 2019, an independent production company based in Cyprus. She has participated in the First Films First script development program (Goethe-Institut), the Oxbelly Screenwriters and Directors Lab (2022), and the Mediterranean Film Institute’s Script 2 Film Workshop (2023).

Her sophomore feature, Stringa (co-created with Maria Hatzakou), is in early development with the support of the Greek Film Centre and MEDIA.