Irida Zhonga is an award winning animation director specializing in stop motion animation. Her first animation film «The Meaning of Life» (2009), was screened αt numerous festivals and won a total of 7 awards, 2 of which at the Drama short film festival. In 2012 she graduated from the University of the Arts, London with a degree in Film and Television and started her career in the film and television industry. In London she worked as a director of commercials and as a producer for British and international TV shows. In 2017 she returned to Athens and started developing her new animation film «Man Wanted». The film script won Βest Script award at the Greek Film Festival of London in 2012. It is funded by ERT and the Greek National Film Centre, the Estonian Film Centre, the Serbian Film Centre and the Albanian Centre of Cinematography. It is the first Greek-Estonian collaboration in an audiovisual project.