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Criss Gidas

Criss Gidas

Director and Screenwriter

Gold Coast, Australia

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About Criss

Criss Gidas is a Greek-Australian writer/director whose imagination never takes a day off. By day, she weaves action-packed narratives with heart and fearless female heroes. By night, she brings cinematic dreams to life as a cinema projectionist.

Hero of Hyrule? Check. Pokémaster in search of the next great character? Absolutely. Criss is always on a quest, blending action, heart, and a sprinkle of magic in everything she creates.

Criss was selected to be a part of the AFTRS/Screen Queensland Talent Camp, is a Stowe Story Labs Alumni, Semifinalist in the Disability Belongs™ Virtual Entertainment Lab 2025, and completed a note taking workshop run by Libby Butler (“Surviving Summer” on Netflix) and facilitated by Screen Queensland.

The television pilot “Dark Veil” is currently on CoverFly’s Red List, Top 1% in Genre/Format, #2 in Action Television (One-hour), #5 Action, and Top 1% of all projects. The script is the TV Pilot Winner of the the ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition and Finalist in the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition.

The narrative feature script “Tag, You’re It” was selected by Maeva Gatineau (Hopscotch Features) as apart of Screen Queensland’s Creative Consultations.

Criss’ debut feature self-funded film “Canvas” premiered at the Gold Coast Film Festival 2022. She was selected as a top three finalist for the Gold Coast Screen Professional of the Year award at the 2022 Industry Awards.

Gender:
Female

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  • Dark Veil

    Dark Veil Thriller ⋄ Action Days before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, British spy Elaine Fisher and her team are sent on a perilous mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a stolen nuclear device and prevent a catastrophic disaster.

  • Articles Of War

    Articles Of War Sports ⋄ Drama An ex-marine competing as an amateur MMA fighter is embroiled in a court case against the man who sexually assaulted her.

  • House Rules

    House Rules Thriller ⋄ Action During the chaos of the Monaco Grand Prix, a former F1 driver turned mercenary assembles a team to infiltrate a high-stakes poker game and retrieve codes to deactivate a bomb planted in an F1 car by the Lost Prophets, a cult led by a ruthless tycoon known as the Broker who is none other than his sister.

  • Silent Blades

    Silent Blades Sports ⋄ Drama An Olympic hopeful who returns to pairs figure skating after a traumatic car crash and her struggles with her deteriorating hearing in pursuit of her dream.

  • Shadow Watch

    Shadow Watch Horror ⋄ Fantasy A New Orleans homicide detective reluctantly teams up with her newbie partner and monster-hunter ex-husband to investigate a series of supernatural events that have unleashed creatures from hell itself.

  • Pirouette

    Pirouette Historical ⋄ Drama A Greek immigrant leaves her family to study ballet in 1950s Melbourne where she fights to keep her head above water in the face of rampant prejudice and her father’s ailing health back at home.

  • Tag, You're It

    Tag, You're It Drama When a high school football star is accused of sexual assault by his girlfriend, he questions his reality

  • Soloist

    Soloist Historical ⋄ Drama London, 1945. Conscripted at the height of his career at the Royal Ballet, Cyrus struggles to rebuild his life after losing his dreams to war when he’s offered a teaching post for the company's post-war debut.

Credits

  • The Second Time Around

    The Second Time Around (2025)
    Short by Jack Howard Associate Producer On a stormy night, while closing a café, a young waitress is confronted by a mysterious older woman. Their brief encounter stirs something the waitress can’t yet explain. A strange sense that this moment matters more than she knows.

  • Canvas

    Canvas (2022)
    Film (Drama and Sport) Writer/Director An ex-military boxer with PTSD seeks redemption in a local charity match to save his estranged father's gym.

  • Motel

    Motel (2021)
    Short Writer/Director An ex-con runs a motel for serial killers.

  • Wireless

    Wireless (2019)
    Film (short) (Drama and Sport) Director/Writer/Producer An up-and-coming figure skater's career is put in jeopardy.

  • The House He Built

    The House He Built (2019)
    Film (short) (Drama) Producer

  • Tag, You're It

    Tag, You're It (2018)
    Film (short) (Drama and Sport) Writer/Producer A high school football star is accused of sexual assault by his girlfriend and he questions his reality.

  • I'll Be There

    I'll Be There (2017)
    Film (short) (Drama) Writer/Producer A young ballerina, struggling with her identity and tumultuous family life, auditions for a prestigious ballet company.

Awards

  • "Dark Veil | Finalist | Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition
    (2025)

  • "Dark Veil" | Finalist | Filmmatic Pitch Now Screenplay Competition Season 7
    (2025)

  • "Dark Veil" | Semifinalist | WritersXWriters
    (2025)

  • "Dark Veil" | Semifinalist | Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
    (2025)

  • "Dark Veil" | Quarterfinalist | ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2025
    (2025)

  • "Dark Veil" | Winner | ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition
    (2024)

  • "Silent Blades" | Semifinalist | Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
    (2024)

  • "Dark Veil" | Semifinalist | Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 9
    (2024)

  • "Silent Blades" | Quarterfinalist | ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
    (2024)

  • "Silent Blades" | Quarterfinalist | ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition
    (2024)

  • "Soloist" | Quarterfinalist | Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
    (2024)

  • "Dark Veil" | Quarterfinalist | Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall
    (2024)

  • "Dark Veil" | Quarterfinalist | Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition
    (2024)

  • "Dark Veil" | Quarterfinalist | Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship Season 7
    (2024)

  • "Dark Veil" | Quarterfinalist | Script Summit
    (2024)

  • "Silent Blades" | Second Rounder | Launch Pad Pilot Competition
    (2024)

  • "Dark Veil" | Honorable Mention | Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall
    (2024)

  • "Pirouette" | Participant | Stowe Story Labs Online Writers’ Retreat
    (2023)

  • "Pirouette" | Top 50 | Launch Pad Feature Competition
    (2023)

  • "Pirouette" | Finalist | Script Summit
    (2023)

  • "Silent Blades" | Semifinalist | Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition
    (2023)

  • "Pirouette" | Honorable Mention | Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall
    (2023)

  • "Articles Of War" | Participant | Stowe Story Labs Online Writers’ Retreat
    (2022)

  • "Tag, You're It" | Finalist | Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - Diversity Initiative V
    (2022)

  • "Pirouette" | Semifinalist | Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
    (2022)

  • "Articles Of War" | Quarterfinalist | The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest
    (2022)

  • "Tag, You're It" | Participant | Stowe Story Labs Online Writers’ Retreat
    (2021)

  • "Articles Of War" | Semifinalist | Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
    (2021)

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