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Sofia Pantouvaki

Professor
Professor
A801 Department of Film

Sofia Pantouvaki founded Costume in Focus (2013), the first research group on performance costume and led the research project Costume Methodologies(2014-2018) funded by the Academy of Finland. Her research currently focuses on the theory and practice of performance costume with a special interest in design for opera and dance, costume and technology, and costume and sustainability; curation and exhibition design; scenography as theatre education; and clothing in the concentration camps of World War Two.

Full researcher profile

Areas of expertise

Scenography, Costume in Focus, Costume design, Costume in action, Concentration Camp Clothing

Honors and awards

Student prize: ASTRO TV, 2025, fiction, dir. Magdaleena Jakkila, MA film

Invitation: Official selection: R&A Shorts – National Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Sep 2025

Student prize: ASTRO TV, 2025, fiction, dir. Magdaleena Jakkila, MA film

Invitation: Official selection: ELOa Espoossa – Fresh out of ELO, Special screening
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Aug 2025

Student prize: ASTRO TV, 2025, fiction, dir, Magdaleena Jakkila, MA film

Invitation: Official selection: New Nordic Films – Next Nordic Generation -competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Aug 2025

Student prize: ODOTTAJAT (The Wait), fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki

Invitation: Official selection: Nordic Flames -competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Aug 2025

Student prize: ODOTTAJAT (The Wait), fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki

Invitation: Official selection of Short Student Films
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Jul 2025

Student prize: ODOTTAJAT (The Wait), 2025, fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki

Invitation: Official selection: NEXXT Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Jun 2025

student prize: ODOTTAJAT, 2024, fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki

invitation: Official selection: R&A Shorts National Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Sep 2024

Student prize: SUONSILMÄ (Eye of the Fen), 2024, fiction, dir. Topi Raulo, MA film

Invitation: Official selection: Student Etudes Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Nov 2024

Student prize: SUONSILMÄ (Eye of the Fen), 2024, fiction, dir. Topi Raulo, MA film

Invitation: Official selection: Baltic Herring Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Aug 2024

Student prize: SUONSILMÄ (Eye of the Fen), 2024, fiction, dir. Topi Raulo, MA film

Invitation: Official selection: International Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition Department of Film Apr 2024

Publications

Suzanne Osmond, Sofia Pantouvaki, Madeline Taylor 2025 Studies in Costume and Performance

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Suzanne Osmond, Sofia Pantouvaki 2024 Studies in Costume and Performance

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Sofia Pantouvaki 2024 Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance

Sofia Pantouvaki, Suzanne Osmond 2024 Studies in Costume and Performance

Sofia Pantouvaki 2024 International Journal of Film and Media Arts