Spiros Stathoulopoulos
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Spiros Stathoulopoulos is an award-winning film director. Raised in the city of Thessaloniki
, he began making movies at a young age. His family moved from Greece to Colombia when he was eight, and he earned his first award at the age of fourteen for the fiction video short, Dimension, which was broadcast nationwide. After he turned eighteen, he served in the Greek Army, 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
. This was selected for the Directors' Fortnight
at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival
. It also screened at the 2007 International Thessaloniki Film Festival, where it won him the Director's Award.
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
, he began making movies at a young age. His family moved from Greece to Colombia when he was eight, and he earned his first award at the age of fourteen for the fiction video short, Dimension, which was broadcast nationwide. After he turned eighteen, he served in the Greek Army, 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
PVC-1
PVC-1 is a 2007 Colombian drama film directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos. The plot was inspired by a true story about a pipe bomb improvised explosive device that was placed around the neck of an extortion victim. This directorial debut premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2007...
. This was selected for the Directors' Fortnight
Directors' Fortnight
Directors' Fortnight is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The section was created in 1969 after the events of May 1968, in which the Cannes festival was canceled in solidarity with striking workers....
at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival
2007 Cannes Film Festival
The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed...
. It also screened at the 2007 International Thessaloniki Film Festival, where it won him the Director's Award.