Olympia Mytilinaiou is a cinematographer based in Athens, Greece. She is a member of the Greek Society of Cinematographers (GSC), IMAGO, and the ICF+C. She is also a member of both the European and Hellenic Film Academies. Born in 1967, she grew up in Litochoro, at the foot of Mount Olympus in Central Macedonia. She studied Cinematography at the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film and TV School, starting her career as a camera assistant, focus puller, and camera operator in film, documentaries, and commercials. She made her debut as Director of Photography in 1999 with the feature film ’17 sta 18′ directed by Mimi Kougioumtzis.

Olympia gained international attention with ‘Strella (A Woman’s Way)’ (2009), directed by Panos H. Koutras, which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. She has since collaborated on numerous award-winning productions, including ‘Miss Violence’ (2013) by Alexandros Avranas, winner of multiple awards at the Venice Film Festival. In 2023, she returned to Cannes with Panos Koutras’s ‘DODO’. Her work spans fiction, documentary, and video art, recognized for its emotional depth and visual precision. She has received awards including the International Gianni Di Venanzo Cinematography Prize in Italy.

Website: https://www.olympiamytilinaiou.com

• Ola ta plasmata Feature Films

• Quiet Life (2024) – Dir. Alexandros Avranas

• DODO (2023) – Dir. Panos H. Koutras

• Back Held Hands – Dir. Nikos Kornilios

• Women Who Passed This Way – Dir. Stavros Tsiolis

• À mon âge je me cache encore pour fumer (2016) – Dir. Rayhana Obermeyer

• Miss Violence (2013) – Dir. Alexandros Avranas

• David is Dying (2011) – Dir. Stephen Lloyd Jackson

• 4Ever – Dir. Giorgos Pirpassopoulos

• Strella (A Woman’s Way) (2009) – Dir. Panos H. Koutras

• Korido en taxei – Dir. Giannis Paraskevopoulos

• Avrio tha ‘nai arga (Tomorrow Will Be Late) (2001) – Dir. Lagia Yiourgou

• 17 sta 18 (1999) – Dir. Mimi Kougioumtzis

Short Films

• Elpida (2022) – Dir. Billy Soulis

tis nyhtas (2021) – Dir. Memi Koupa

• Hamam (2020) – Dir. Barbara Doukas

• The Ashes (2020) – Dir. Anastasia Anagnostopoulou

• A Patch of Blue (2019) – Dir. Memi Koupa

• Happy Moments – Dir. Alexandros Zarbis

• Kalimera – Dir. Yiannis Alexiou

• After Party – Dir. Alexandros Zarbis

• The Human Condition – Dir. Vaggelis Katsaros

• Pink – Dir. Memi Koupa

• The National Garden – Dir. Syni Pappa

• April Fool’s Day – Dir. Apostolis Iliopoulos

• The Life of a Dead Man – Dir. Orpheas Peretzis

• Whack – Dir. Syni Pappa

• Stagnation – Dir. Alexander Zwart

• It’s OK My Friend! – Dir. Yiolanda Markopoulou

• Le Jardin de son frère – Dir. Vasilis Doganis

• Demetra’s Dream – Dir. Francesca Bartellini

• To Solo – Dir. Stefanos Potamianos

• Siga tis Portes – Dir. Vasilis Bourikas

• Tou Kanenos to Rodo – Dir. Giannis Galanoulis

• I Ivana ston Paradeiso – Dir. Nikos Fousekis

Documentaries

• • Maestra (additional DOP) – Dir. Maggie Contreras
• • One Over Many – Dir. Daphne Bengoa
• • Ode to Lesvos – Dir. Talal Derki (2016)
• • Dollars for a Saint – Dir. Avra Georgiou

Video Art

• • Aeonium – Dir. Giorgos Drivas (2020)
• • Antistoli – Dir. Pantelis Makkas (2018)
• • Julienne & Amandine – Dir. Alexandros Zarbis
• • Diptycho – Dir. Panagiotis Evangelidis
• • History Zero – Dir. Stefanos Tsivopoulos (2013, 55th Venice Biennale)
• • Sibylla – Dir. Panagiotis Evangelidis