Natalia is a creative changemaker that aspires to use film and art as a medium to campaign on migrant rights by connecting people and places.
She has worked in the field of forced migration since 2017 with international organisations and charities and is an MA SOAS graduate in Migration, Diaspora studies with Intensive Persian. Noticing the limits to established large-scale programmes of humanitarian relief (i.e. short-term and top-down approaches), she started exploring intersectional methods offering a more holistic understanding to the complexities of forced migration.
In 2022 and 2023, she supported the launch of the festival Refugee Week Greece, its social media campaigns as well as the curation of its exhibitory work including the film programme Compass Films. In 2024, she launched her own film collective, Pixida Films, which bridges grassroot approaches – working with filmmakers with lived experience and hosting a film club for unaccompanied minors in London – with wider audiences.
Through its campaigning on ‘Crossings’, Pixida Films organises screenings in Greece and the UK to raise awareness on the violence at the borders of Europe and their effect on migrants and migration. Currently, Natalia also works as a Frontline Project Coordinator at HIAS JCORE, supporting young people who experience the asylum system in the UK.
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