The Hat Method

A biting satire blended with laugh-out-loud comedy by Erifili Missiou

Irma is excited to meet with her line manager Milli for a social get together, only to discover that being friends with your boss never ends up favourably! The Hat Method is an entertaining satire about toxic workplace culture and exploitative labour practices that have become alarmingly normalized under late-stage capitalism.

Shot on location October 2024

Erifili Missiou is a comedy writer/director with a background in fine arts. She blends social commentary with nuanced character study, playfully unveiling the gaps between how we choose to see ourselves and how we actually behave.

Her current projects include "Polyanna", a comedy-drama TV series about the joys and chalenges of life as an expatriate artist in a big city, and "Tel-It-Like-It-Is Reviews", a web series satirising film critics. Her short "Beef Steak and Sardines" was selected by three international festivals and won a Best Female Director award.

She is head programmer at The Garden Cinema and artistic director of EFN Short Film Festival.