Veniamin Gialouris (Ven) is an award-winning Greek-Australian screenwriter and director based in Sydney, on Gadigal Country.
His films have screened at festivals including Palm Springs ShortFest, Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival. His work has received the 2025 AACTA Award for Best Short Film and a 2024 Australian Directors’ Guild Award, amongst others. Ven holds a master’s degree in directing from AFTRS and a postgraduate certificate in creative writing and literature from Western Sydney University. His work is characterised by formal rigour, and a synthesis of theory with practice. He is represented by RGM Artists. In 2026, a feature film he co-wrote with Marcus Khoudair, Adonia, was shortlisted for the AWG’s Emerging Writers’ Awards.
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