Vasiliki Lazaridou is a queer visual artist and filmmaker born in 1989 and raised in Thessaloniki. They studied Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean and Theory οf Cinema at Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III. Lazaridou have often produced the work of their fellow artists and acted as assistant director for their projects, and have worked as creative director, writer and curator. They hold a Master’s degree in Communication & Media Rhetoric from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. They are currently working on their genre short film Hopepunk with Homemade Films.