Niki Lambropoulos

Niki Lambropoulos is a screenwriter born in Ancient Olympia, Greece. Her family owned the first open-air cinema in Western Greece, and as a child, she was truly happy being immersed in the pictures. She studied Creative Writing, History of Contemporary Art, and Screenwriting at the University of the Arts London, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, the University of East Anglia, with Robert McKee, and earned a Master’s and a PhD in Digital Humanities from University College London and London South Bank University. Robert McKee advised her to root her writing in her culture to enhance her authentic voice and continue her storytelling tradition. She lived and worked in London as a writer, digital storytelling researcher, and visual artist for 12 years before returning to Greece during the Greek crisis and Brexit.

The urgency and necessity in her stories stem from the context that gave rise to the emergence of the unique Greek cinema known as the Weird Greek Wave, echoing ancient tragedy: individuals too powerless to shape their destinies, condemned to navigate a world governed by rules and laws usually imposed by others (biopolitical realism), or something else. In her stories, authentic characters’ movements derive from the themes and create unique story structures leading to conflict, transformation, and catharsis. She merges history and past with the present, reality and future in the way we experience them; the big is in the small and the universal in the specific, engaging the international audience.

A Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) and WIFT Greece member, she has written scripts that have won international awards and accolades. She teaches creative storytelling, published two books on storytelling in Greece and the U.K., and has written and produced short films such as “Connections (Επαφές)” and “Attuned”. She is involved as a screenwriter, story consultant, script editor, and co-writer in short films and a feature film currently in production in the U.S.A., Cyprus and the U.K.