- Greece
Georgis GRIGORAKIS
- Greece
Georgis GRIGORAKIS was born and raised in Athens, Greece in 1983. He went on to study Social Psychology in the UK before he completed an MA in Directing Fiction at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in 2012.He has written and directed 8 short films, which have been garnered international acclaim. His second short, N’ Me For Myself, won the Greek Film Academy Award in 2009 and has been distributed to Canal +, Cinefil TV, Wholphin DVD magazine and VOD. His next short, Reverse, was produced by Sarajevo Film Festival, where it premiered in 2010. His latest short 45 Degrees was characterized by Le Monde as one of the little diamonds of Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2013; it has been distributed in international TV channels and the French cinemas. All three films have been screened in total in more than 100 festivals worldwide and won over 20 awards. Georgis is Alumnus of the 2015 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Workshop in Italy, and the 2009 Berlinale Talent Campus. At the Cinefondation Residency he is developing his debut feature “Digger”, which so far has been granted the Nipkow Programme Fellowship, Development Support from the Greek Film Center and the Slate Media Development Fund.