Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Spiros Stathoulopoulos (born 1978) is Greek film director. Raised in the city of Thessaloniki, he began making movies at a young age.[1] His family moved from Greece to Colombia when he was eight,[1] and he earned his first award at the age of fourteen for the fiction video short, Dimension, which was broadcast nationwide.[2] After he turned eighteen, he served in the Greek Army,[1] which influenced another short film, Nekropolis. By twenty-three, he had edited the feature film Habitos Sucios for renowned Colombian director, Carlos Palau.
At twenty-nine, after moving to Los Angeles to finish a formal education in filmmaking and establishing his own production company, Kosmokrator Sinema, he completed his first feature film, PVC-1.[3] This was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It also screened at the 2007 International Thessaloniki Film Festival, where it won him the Director's Award.[4]
His upcoming film Meteora is scheduled to compete in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Spiros STATHOULOPOULOS—Biography, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ PVC-1, 2008 Bangkok International Film Festival. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ PVC-1, International Thessaloniki Film Festival. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ 48th TIFF Awards, press release, International Thessaloniki Film Festival, 26 November 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
- ^ "Press Release, 9th Jan". berlinale.de. 2012-01-09. http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_12436.html. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
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