Andrea GATOPOULOS

Andrea Gatopoulos is an Italian and Greek director, producer and distributor. A member of EFA, and alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Locarno Spring Academy and TFL, he founded his company Il Varco, the short film distribution Gargantua and the avant-garde cinema residency Nouvelle Bug. He holds a degree in Literature and studied at workshops with Werner Herzog, Radu Jude and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His films deal with virtual realities, uncanny valleys, disillusion, anti-capitalism and critiques of progressivism. Happy New Year, Jim (2022) was the first machinima presented in Cannes, at the Directors’ Fortnight. In 2023 in Locarno, he presented Eschaton Ad, a film about the apocalyptic advent of AI. Later that year he presented his first documentary feature, A Stranger Quest (2023), at the Torino Film Festival. In 2024, his short film The Eggregores’ Theory opened the 39th Venice Film Critics’ Week as the first AI film in Venice.