Lydia Papadimitriou is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek cinema. Her monograph The Greek Film Musical (2006) has been translated into Greek (2009), and she has co-edited (with Yannis Tzioumakis) Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities (2011). Her current research interests involve documentary, film festivals and distribution.