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Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Film Festival Winners


Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Film Festival Winners

Congratulations to our 2019 Cyprus Comic Con Film Festival award winners. These films and filmmakers exhibited excellence in artistry and craftsmanship in noteworthy ways. The CCC family and judges extend a warm congratulations to these award winners who have positively shaped the world of film and storytelling.

International Film Winner

Nefta Football Club

By Yves Piat

Local Film Winner

The Sound

By Antony Petrou

Thank you to our judges and all the entrants.

Our Film Festival competition was open for everyone to share their short films. We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to enter and our judging panel, Andreas Sheittanis, Vanessa Hadjijoseph and Nicoletta Touloumi.

Cosplay Contest Winners 2019


Some truly breathtaking costumes walked the CCC 2019 cosplay competition stage! Just like in 2017, CCC held two competitions, one on each day:

Saturday: The CCC EuroCosplay Qualifier 2019 consisted of a fully fledged show where all contestants had the chance to perform their own entertaining cosplay skits and offered the sum of €1,750 in money prizes and selected a representative for Cyprus in London’s MCM Expo EuroCosplay Final with all their flights, accommodation and travel expenses covered! The judges were our distinguished cosplayers and special guests from the Czech Republic Germia, Ali Cosplay & Props and Ketrin Cosplay.

Sunday: The more casual CCC Masquerade 2019 had the audience enjoy an on-stage judging session and an energetic Cosplay Parade and offered the sum of €850 in money prizes! This contest was judged by experienced local cosplayers and past winners Alcaria Cosplay, Molza and DeXter.

This year we had a disappointing drop in the quantity of cosplay participants, but a more than welcomed increase in quality! A total of 36 contestants participated with 61% of them being fully hand-made versus a 41% of partly hand-made costumes.

Without further ado, here are the winners:

CCC EuroCosplay Qualifier

1st Place

Alcaria Cosplay (Gloria Roussou)
As Kassandra (Mercenary Set)
From Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Gloria will be representing Cyprus at the EuroCosplay Championship Final in London MCM Expo on the 26th of October 2019. It has taken her a total of 500 hours of work to handcraft the costume. Here’s the process in her own words:

I made the breastplate out of craft foam and Worbla and I covered most of it with faux leather. I “carved” and removed parts of the leather with a craft knife and carefully painted the exposed part gold. The metallic details were made out of Worbla and Thibra. Both shin guards and the left bracer were also craft foam covered in Worbla which I later painted black and used gold Rub-n-Buff to make them look like worn, archaic metal. The right bracer was a plain sheet of craft foam, sanded and distressed with a rotary tool. Again the metallic designs (eagle and snakes) were sculpted Thibra. The golden chevrons on top are 3mm craft foam. All the belts that interconnect and the skirt/belt are faux leather (thick, non-elastic) glued on 2mm craft foam strips. I sanded and distressed them. I bought a pair of sandals and added straps and small strips of fabric, covered the ankles, and painted them. The tunic was a white linen fabric, sewn into a top and a skirt. I tore some pieces and connected them around a waist band, to make the skirt look flowy, distressed, and uneven. I dyed the fabric a light, watered down, grey-ish colour and added the red linen fabric on it. For the lace decoration on the shoulder fabric I got 2 types of braided trim (a rope-like trim and a zig-zag) which I connected to create a different type of trim. The pin that holds the fabric was made out of Thibra, glued on a safety pin. Both weapons (Spear and Sword) were made out of carved foam, reinforced with 2mm diameter wooden sticks, and then covered with Worbla. The spear has very strong magnets hidden inside the Worbla so that it connects to the magnets hidden in the quiver.


2nd Place

Manic Crafts (Nyree Hapetian)
As Dragonborn (Glass Armour)
From The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

3rd Place

Tajfu Cosplay (Anastasia Glushkova)
As Arachne
From Sakizou Illustrations (Mystic Animism Artbook)


4th Place

Insoriel Cosplay (Eva Demetrou)
As Human Warrior T10 Wielding Calamity’s Edge
From World of Warcraft

5th Place

Molza (Tatiana Anisimova)
As Rose DeWitt-Bukater (Jump Dress)
From Titanic


CCC Cosplay Masquerade

1st Place

Arian Jocson
As Kilik (Original Costume in Red)
From Soul Calibur


2nd Place

Mira (Anastasia Grusha)
As Red
From Transistor

3rd Place

Nicos Tsouris
As Peter Quill
From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2


4th Place

Anastasis Constantinou
As Alexios of Kephalonia
From Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

5th Place

Christina Vasiliou
As Valeera (Demon Hunter)
From Heroes of the Storm


Watch the Contests on Twitch!


Everyone else who participated! We <3 you!

EuroCosplay Qualifier

Alphabetical Nana Rei (Styliani Koudounari) Jester D&D Critical Role
Stavroula Constantinou William Vangeance Black Clover

Masquerade

6th Luna Aelfled Khajiit Elder Scrolls
7th Andreas Loizou & Mikaella Akritova Pickle Rick and Birdperson Rick and Morty
8th Prokopis Koulermos Kratos God of War
9th Καφφετζή Μελαχροινή Xayah The Rabel League of Legends
10th Christian Jocson Darth Maul Star Wars
Alphabetical Alexandra Grezina Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon The Witcher 3
Anna-Maria & Rafael Triantafyllides Ratchet and Clank Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction
Athina & Loukas Shields Gang Beasts Chicken Gang Beasts
Catalin Constantin Cazan Mass Effect & Iron-Man Mashup Marvel and BioWare
Charilaos Michael Millennium Earl – Season 1 D Gray Man
Constantinos Thoma Nero Devil May Cry 5
Daniel Ellinas Viking Vikings
George Mina Katakuri One Piece
Kakos Portantaris Heavy Team Fortress 2
Konstantinos Paschalis Blitz (CamoSkin) Rainbow Six Siege
Lydia Shields & David Ackerley Gang Beasts Fox and Dragon Kigurumi Gang Beasts
Menelaos Mavromoustakos Guts (Berserker armor) Berserk
Nefeli SImpson Marcelline Vampire Adventure Time
Nicos Leonardos Kael thas World of warcraft
Paige McCann Ciri The Witcher 3
Sotia Liasidou Akame Akame Ga Kill
Theodoros Yiangou Asta (Black bull outfit with demon slayer sword) Black Clover
Vasilis Constantinou Goblin Slayer Goblin Slayer

Artists’ Alley 2019


The Artists’ Alley is a dedicated space for professional and semi-professional artists to showcase their talent, interact with other creative minds and art enthusiasts, draw commissioned sketches and sell prints, as well as other merchandise of their work.

If you are looking for a unique souvenir to take home with you that’s crafty and creative, then make sure to visit the Artists’ Alley and browse the creative works on display! Or, even better, ask one of the artists to create a custom, commissioned sketch for you of your favourite character!

Abyss Arts & Crafts

Marouso Kalaitzoglou, otherwise known as Abyss Arts & Crafts, was born in Athens in 1996. Characteristic of her cosplays is her fidelity to the fictional character she reflects. She has […]

Andreani Soupashi

Andreani Soupashi is a Cyprus-born artist, who focuses on digital art and illustration. She started out young, taking art lessons and scribbling in school notebooks in black ballpoint pen. Her […]

Andreas Rossides

We want to welcome 3D artist Andreas Rossides to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Andreas graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design, receiving a B.F.A with Honors in […]

Andriana Achilleos

Andriana Achilleos has always loved art but never thought about pursuing it professionally until she accidentally ended up in a graphic design course in high school, due to the course [...]

AneArt

Anestis Mavrommatis Parasidis is a self-taught artist. He was born in 1994 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a graduate of the Department of History & Archaeology of the Faculty of [...]

Anna Cosma

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to announce the return of Anna Cosma to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Anna was born and raised in Nicosia. Art and specifically illustration has been a […]

Anna Miltiadou

Anna Miltiadou was born in Nicosia in 1990. She studied Graphic & Advertising Design at Frederick University. She continued her studies at Nottingham Trent University were she acquired an MA […]

Annisia Iacovou

Annisia Iacovou is a 23 year old, self-taught artist born and raised in Nicosia. She discovered her interest in artistic expression through creation, including music and drawing, from a very […]

Antonios Tzanoukakis

Tony Tzanoukakis is an Greek Australian artist who has been working as a professional Illustrator for the last 11 years. He studied graphic design at the technological institution of Athens […]

Approtis

Fares Zoghlami, better known in the art world as Approtis, is a self-taught illustrator and comic artist with a lifelong passion for drawing. Growing up with an architect father, Fares [...]

Arcanum Comics

Arcanum Comics is a collaborative project between friends, created to explore the unlimited storytelling potential of the world of comic books while producing other iconic merchandise in the process. After self-publishing [...]

Arinela Kociko

Hello, my name is Arinela and I’m a freelance artist. I have six years of experience working on comic books and illustrations. I studied three years Comic Book Design in […]

By Trial and Error (Flor Theodosiou)

By Trial and Error (Flor Theodosiou) is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Flor is a 22 year old freelance illustrator, animator, and student of the Fine Arts, as well […]

Christofis Agathokleous

I was born in Limassol in 1990 and more specifically I am from the Agios Tychonas village. I graduated from Linopetra Lyceum, where subsequently I enlisted in the National Guard, […]

Chryssv

Chryso Vasiliou a.k.a Chryssv, has been working as a freelance digital artist for the past 8 years and also working as a 2D game artist for mobile games.  Her passion [...]

Claudia Ilona Moussoulos

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back the talented 3D artist Claudia Ilona Moussoulos to this year’s  Artists’ Alley! Claudia a.k.a. Claud was born in Cyprus in 1993. Her journey with art started ever […]

Colto Comics (Babis Ioannidis)

We are thrilled to have Colto Comics (Babis Ioannidis) back for CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Babis  was beamed in Thessaloniki sometime during the glorious golden decade of the 80’s. Right after […]

Copper Mouflon (Christopher Demetriou & Stella Violari)

Copper Mouflon are returning to the Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Copper Mouflon is a cooperation between a writer, Christopher Demetriou, and an illustrator, Stella Violari,  both passionate about creating comics, who […]

Costis Papatheodorou

We want to welcome Costis Papatheodorou to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Costis Papatheodorou is a Greek artist  based in Athens. He started working as an art director in ad agencies for […]

dandelions_wishes

Spyroula Spyrou, has studied 2D traditional animation in UK and worked as a 2D animator at an animation studio in Limassol. During that time, she worked on 10 advertisements and [...]

Design By Stavri (Stavri Symeonidou)

We want to welcome back Design By Stavri (Stavri Symeonidou) to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Stavri Symeonidou is a graphic designer and an illustrator based in the city […]

Dia Does Art (Theodora Antarti)

We want to welcome Dia Does Art (Theodora Antarti) to Cyprus Comic Con 2019’s Artists’ Alley! Theodora is a self-taught hobbyist who likes to draw a lot of fanart. She […]

Eleanna Mavrofrydi

Comic book artist and illustrator Eleanna Mavrofrydi is returning to our Artists’ Alley for this year’s event! Eleanna was born on 16th of December 1991 in Athens, Greece. Having an appeal to […]

Elias Neophytou

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back Elias Neophytou to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19! Elias is studying Graphic Design at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). He aspires to be a comic […]

Ermina Emmanouel

Ermina Emmanouel is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Ermina was born in Nicosia in 1992 where she now lives and works. She studied Fine Arts in Italy, at […]

Framerender Studio (Nearchos Konstantinou)

Cyprus Comic Con is thrilled to announce the return of multi talented artist Nearchos Konstantinou (aka Framerender Studio) to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Nearchos was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1976 […]

George Theodorides

George is a comic book artist and illustrator living in Athens. From a young age, he liked drawing and reading comics and in 2016 he started taking lessons from comic […]

Gregory Grozos

I am Gregory Grozos and I am a miniature artist. I call my creations ‘miniature worlds’ because that is what I exactly aim them to be. I try to make […]

Heba Rena Yassin

My name is Heba Rena Yassin, a fine/digital artist. I was born in Sutton, UK and grew up in Limassol, Cyprus. I have been attending Cyprus Comic Con since its […]

Jean V. Hiol & George Charalampous

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Jean V. Hiol & George Charalampous to its Artists’ Alley! Jean Valery Hiol studied Graphic Design at European Univercity Cyprus. He got into illustrations […]

Katerina Pantela

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes the talented Katerina Pantela to its Artists’ Alley for CCC19! Katerina is a concept artist, character designer and 2D animator from Cyprus. She holds a First […]

Kostas Nikellis

Kostas Nikellis is returning back for Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Kostas was born in Athens, Greece, where he currently resides and works. He is a professional illustrator and computer games […]

LarLarLar Comics (Andreas Michaelides, Valia Kapadai & Pavlos Pavlidis)

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back the team of LarLarLar Comics (Andreas Michaelides, Valia Kapadai & Pavlos Pavlidis) to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! LarLarLar Comics is a Greek, multilingual (Greek, English and French) creators’ collective, originally formed […]

Leonidas “Steve” Stivaktis

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have artist Leonidas “Steve” Stivaktis to its Artists’ Alley for this year’s event! Steve first took up a pencil when his grandma taught him […]

Loukia Chrysafi

We want to welcome Loukia Chrysafi to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Loukia is mostly self taught, though she had a fellow artist teach her several techniques she was interested in […]

Lynn Shields

We want to welcome Lynn Shields to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Pen and ink art with a twist. Perhaps dark and unusual but arresting and thought provoking. Lynn […]

Marios Kyprianou

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome writer Marios Kyprianou to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Marios is a graduate of the silversmithing department and culinary school. He works as a chef, but […]

Marios Ppoulis

Marios Ppoulis has worked for magazines abroad and in Greece has worked with game companies designing characters. He did the illustrations for several self-published books. He has done many private […]

Mion (Hermionie Antarti)

Mion (Hermionie Antarti) is returning to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Hermionie is a 16 year old self-taught artist. Although she likes using several techniques, she has mostly promoted her digital works since […]

Mister S (Michael Drakos)

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Mister S (Michael Drakos) to its Artists’ Alley! Mike aka Mister S is an illustrator and graphic designer, born, raised and based in the beautiful […]

Monday Cat

Anastasia Monteyka Kozlova was born in the snowy highlands of the Baltic coast, she can't exactly remember at which point her brain rewired to come up with colorful images and [...]

N U G G E T (Victoria Ganshin)

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to have N U G G E T (Victoria Ganshin) join this year’s Artists’ Alley! Victoria Ganshin is a 17 year-old self taught artist and she has been […]

Natalie Pavlidou

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back illustrator Natalie Pavlidou to it’s Artists’ Alley! Natalie is a freelance artist from Cyprus. She is an illustrator and concept artist for the publishing and […]

Neil Gibson – TPub Comics

Neil is the editor in chief and CEO of TPub Ltd. Neil never wanted to be a writer, but he just LOVED good comics. As a fan for many years […]

Neil Gibson & Tasos Anastasiades

We proudly welcome TPub‘s Neil Gibson & Tasos Anastasiades who will be featuring their new comic book, “The Traveller” at CCC2019’s Artists’ Alley! “The Traveller” Traveller is a steampunk adventure story set at the turn of […]

Nicos Nipat

We are excited to have Nicos Nipat joining us for CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Nicos is a self-taught cartoonist from Cyprus who uses traditional media such as ink and watercolours to […]

Nightwalker_MC

Concept Artist/Illustrator/Game Artist (Known for high intake of Lucozade Energy drink) Maria Christina is a Cypriot artist (AKA NightBlaze) who studied Applied Multimedia Arts, along with a minor in Illustration […]

Nikoletta Kyprianou

Nikoletta Kyprianou, has been working as a freelancer, as well as an in-house Illustrator and graphic designer, but is always eager to learn and evolve and she appreciates the challenge [...]

Ourania Markou

Ourania is an animator who graduated as a graphic designer, however her true passion is making art. She has created jewelry, paintings and ceramics. She loves the use of color […]

Phaidon Nicola

Phaidon Nicola is returning to our Artists’ Alley for another year! Phaidon Nicola is a self taught illustrator/animator from Cyprus. He is inspired by movies, tv shows and video-games. One […]

Polina Tsatsami

We are pleased to welcome Polina Tsatsami to CCC19’s Artists’ Alley! Polina is a 23 year old artist from Serres, Greece. She is mostly self taught but she attendeds some […]

Savvas Papadopoulos

Savvas Papadopoulos is a designer from Cyprus. He has studied illustration at Birmingham City University and has since been working on various projects. His main passion though is the gaming […]

Smar

We want to welcome talented artist Smar to our Artists’ Alley! Smar lives in Athens, Greece, is constantly trying to organise her life, and frequently wonders if she’ll ever be […]

Steve Chatzidakis

Steve Chatzidakis, or “Agoto” as his friends call him, creates art pieces from a very young age. He is a resident of Athens, Greece and he holds a Master of […]

Thodoris Thou

The Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Thodoris Thou to CCC19 Artists’ Alley! Thodoris is a self-taught sculptor and ceramist. He was born in Paphos but he moved to Nicosia when […]

Tony Tzanoukakis

Tony Tzanoukakis is returning to Cyprus Comic Con 2019 Artists’ Alley! Tony is an Greek Australian artist who has been working as a professional Illustrator for the last 6 years. Born […]

Un Sogno (Marianna Pagkratidou & Eleana Vasiliades)

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Marianna Pagkratidou & Eleana Vasiliades to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Un Sogno is a scientific adventure comic written by Marianna Pagkratidou and illustrated by Eleana […]

Vasilis Gerkou

Cyprus Comic Con wants to welcome Vasilis Gerkou to its Artists’ Alley! Vasilis is 25 years old and he comes from Greece. He says that painting is his life. He […]

Vera Kartalou

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back author Vera Kartalou to its Artists’ Alley! Vera Kartalou carries writing as a means of expression and creation. She lovespolice procedural, noir aesthetics, fantasy literature and satire. Her work […]

Yiangos Parmenides & Aliki Papafotiou

We are excited to have Yiangos Parmenides & Aliki Papafotiou to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Yiangos is an 18 year-old self-taught artist who loved drawing and superheroes from a kid and […]

Yuncumber (Marina Alexikou)

Cyprus comic con wants to welcome Yuncumber (Marina Alexikou) to this year’s Artists’ Alley! Marina is a self-taught artist currently studying something unrelated to art. She always loved watching anime, since her […]

Zhllustrator (Živko Kondić)

Cyprus Comic Con is excited to welcome Zhllustrator (Živko Kondić) to its Artists’ Alley! Živko is a freelance 2D artist from Novi Sad, Serbia. His art is a particular blend of […]