About me
I am a Greek American filmmaker raised and bred in The Bronx, New York.
Went to the University of Pennsylvania to become an Astrophysics scientist… but took film classes and shifted directions to a Visual Communications Bachelor of Arts Degree. After a screening of Tarkovsky’s STALKER this sci-fi film transcended - that was it . . .
Pursed filmmaking with a scholarship at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate film program with prominent independent directors as instructors. Obtained a Master of Fine Arts with excellence in film directing. My film work received a Golden Eagle Award, Mobil Foundation Award and a Paramount Pictures grant.
While location scouting in New York for a timeless stone village to shoot a film, discouraged I left for Greece to search. There I obtained funding from the Government's Greek Film Center and shot on a remote barren island.
After that, I decided to stay.
Love New York, but It was like being replanted from a pot into a plot of land. The everyday stimuli streaming in Greece became a crucial element of my creative process. I found my film work to be inspired by the light, the ideology, the life, the color, the timeless structures and the hidden beauty found here.
Went to the University of Pennsylvania to become an Astrophysics scientist… but took film classes and shifted directions to a Visual Communications Bachelor of Arts Degree. After a screening of Tarkovsky’s STALKER this sci-fi film transcended - that was it . . .
Pursed filmmaking with a scholarship at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate film program with prominent independent directors as instructors. Obtained a Master of Fine Arts with excellence in film directing. My film work received a Golden Eagle Award, Mobil Foundation Award and a Paramount Pictures grant.
While location scouting in New York for a timeless stone village to shoot a film, discouraged I left for Greece to search. There I obtained funding from the Government's Greek Film Center and shot on a remote barren island.
After that, I decided to stay.
Love New York, but It was like being replanted from a pot into a plot of land. The everyday stimuli streaming in Greece became a crucial element of my creative process. I found my film work to be inspired by the light, the ideology, the life, the color, the timeless structures and the hidden beauty found here.
