Ethnofest was founded in 2010, as a civil non-profit society with the purpose of organising the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, and with the greater vision to promote Documentary,  Ethnography and Visual Anthropology and general the use of audiovisual media in social research, through a variety of activities and collaborations such as video production, distribution, workshops, lectures and other educational initiatives.

Visual anthropology and multimodal ethnography are a constantly evolving field and severely under-represented in Greek academia, thus Ethnofest is essentially the only platform aiming to expand dialogue on Visual Anthropology and disseminate knowledge of social and humanitarian sciences while being a meeting place for lecturers, researchers and students.

Our valuable partners include the Ministry of Culture and Sport, the British Film Institute, the Institut Français de Grèce, MedINA (https://med-ina.org/), Faro – Creative Learning, the Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Goldsmiths University and the University of Manchester as well as the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and Stavros Niarchos Foundation.