Educational Workshop Together Doc 18 July 2025, Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos”

For the third year in a row, the Santorini Film Festival joins forces with the Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos” to organize a creative educational workshop for children.

This year, inspired by the Festival’s theme “We’re Not Really Strangers,” the workshop uses filmmaking as a connection medium that brings parents and children together. Designed and curated by the audiovisual arts educator Ioanna Giakoumatou, the SFF2025 film workshop titled ‘Together Doc’ invites participants to create their own story in collaboration with their adult guardians and the rest of the team. They learn to express the concept of “togetherness” through the camera and while experiencing the dual role of a family member and part of a small film crew, they feel, grow, and discover new knowledge.

The welcoming Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos” is the ideal setting to make the participants’ cinematic experience even more special. Both the indoor spaces and the outdoor area where the history of the factory comes alive, offer inspiration to young and old alike. There, the team members will create their own short film and engage with the notion of collaboration as members of a creative team.

Ioanna Giakoumatou, educator in audiovisual arts, teaches stop motion animation, and the participants in her workshops create their own unique animated films. She conducts workshops and seminars for various social and age groups, using an original animation technique and aesthetic that embraces experimentation. Her goal is for participants to experience collaboration, teamwork, and freedom in artistic creation.