Rea produces documentaries for the Greek and international market. She works for Anemon Productions in Athens, a company committed to fostering awareness and education.
Recent work as a producer includes A Game Must Go On (SKAI, BBC World), which follows a group of children fighting for the right to play football in their neighbourhood, A Place Without People (ERT, TV3), which tells the story of the expulsion of the Masai from Serengeti in Tanzania and Sugartown: the Day After (2009, ARTE, ERT, Al Jazeera, YLE, TSR, TV3, CYBC), a bitter tale about environmental capitalism in the Greek Peloponnese.
Rea studied Ancient and Modern History at the University of Oxford. She was the researcher of Universal’s Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Asst. Producer for the BBC2/ERT-1 documentary Are you Captain Corelli? which was BBC’s most watched arts programme in 2001.
In 2002, she received a NIPKOW scholarship and worked for MAJADE Filmproduktion in Leipzig, Germany and in 2008 received the Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC in Cannes. She is currently the Deputy Head of the Board of Documentary Campus.
Rea also works as a scriptwriter and co-organises monthly documentary screenings in Athens for CineDoc.