Loukia Rikaki

Lucia Rikaki was born on July 14, 1961 in Piraeus, Greece. She studied history of art, graphic design, cinema and photography at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England. She has collaborated with the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and the Danish Ministry of Environment, before returning to Greece, where she founded "Orama Films" (1984), producing art films, TV programs and theatrical plays. She was a prolific and critically acclaimed director of both feature films and documentaries. A socially engaged and involved artist, she transformed her passion into a multifaceted work as director, writer, producer and cinematographer. She was the creator of two international documentary festivals in Greece: The EcoFilms in Rhodes and the Health Film Festival "Hippocrates" in Kos. In 1995 she created "104 Art Theater Stage", and "The Comedy Club," the only stand-up comedy venue to date in Greece. Her last documentary, the "Salvation Plan," was filmed in the hospital "Sotiria" at Athens, where she was hospitalized and which was at the time playing host to an ambitious art exhibition. She died to cancer on December 28, 2011, at he age of 50.