Nefeli
Zygopoulou

A Greek-British filmmaker and academic who brings rare scholarly depth to production and development — building a body of work across fiction, documentary and international co-production that spans both the page and the screen.

She produced and co-wrote Chasing Robert Barker, I Made it Films' debut feature, and produced and executive produced the BAFTA-shortlisted short Awfully Deep. She is associate producer on In the Black, a Canada–UK feature starring David Harewood, which chronicles Jamaican-Canadian businessman Denham Jolly's 12-year struggle to establish Flow FM — Canada's first Black-owned radio station. The film is backed by Telefilm Canada, CBC and Ontario Creates.

Nefeli holds a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from University College London's Centre for Intercultural Studies. Her thesis — exploring oral traditions across Jewish, African and Indigenous Brazilian cultures — was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2021. She is an alumna of the Canada Media Producer's Association International Co-production Accelerator Program.

She is currently co-writing and producing 6 to 12 Volts, a Greek–UK co-production set in a 1970s Peloponnese village, and producing Once Upon a Time in the Forest, an action western co-directed by Daniel Florêncio and indigenous filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro. She is also executive producer on The Dreams of Pepe, a documentary on former Uruguayan President José Mujica, which premiered at the Rio Film Festival.