Konstantia Kontaxis, M.F.A. Assistant Professor and Program Director, Motion Picture

Konstantia Kontaxis holds an MFA in Film Production from Ohio University and a BA in Communication from Panteion University of Athens, Greece.

Over the last few years Kontaxis’ films have explored the intersection of art and moving image, tracing the profiles of artists and places, as they combine elements of memory, biography and history. In 2003 she was commissioned by Miami Dade County Art in Public Places to produce a subjective documentary on the creation of six works of public art and their integration to the new Miami Performing Arts Center.

Prior to the University of Miami she was on the faculty of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York and Miami Dade College. She has worked as production coordinator and script supervisor for feature films. She was the Florida coordinator for Bridget (Golden Bear Nomination - Berlinale 2002), Mail Order Wife (Winner of Best Independent Feature - Santa Barbara Film Festival 2004) and script supervisor for SUE (FIPRESI Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Berlinale 1998).

For her work she has received the Golden Sheaf Award for Best International Drama at the 2000 Yorkton Short Film Festival and honors at the 2001 Moondance, and 1998 Cleveland Film Festivals. Her documentary on painter Maria Sevastaki premiered in competition at the inaugural 2002 Tribeca film Festival in NYC.

Currently Kontaxis is at work on a series of three films documenting objectives, ideas and practice in representation of nature in public art; a collaboration with artists Barbara Neijna, Brad Goldberg and Norie Sato and their respective installations for the Miami International Airport.

She also serves as guest curator for Miami Art Central where she has curated the New Directors film series in the summer of 2005 and Cine-Confessional film series in the fall of 2005.

Konstantia Kontaxis
School of Communication
Frances L. Wolfson Building 4011
5100 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-6382
Fax: (305) 284-3648
E-mail: kkontaxis@miami.edu