Spiros Stathoulopoulos
{{short description|Greek film director (born 1977)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Spiros Stathoulopoulos
| image = Stathoulopoulos at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival.jpg
| caption = Stathoulopoulos at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival
| birth_date = {{bda|5 December 1978}}
| nationality = Greek, Colombian
| alma_mater = California State University
| occupation = Film Director, Screenwriter
}}
Spiros Stathoulopoulos ({{langx|el|Σπύρος Σταθουλόπουλος}}; born 1978) is a Greek-Colombian film director best known for the continuously shot thriller PVC-1 (2007) and Meteora (2012).
Biography
Spiros Stathoulopoulos was born in Greece and moved to Colombia at the age of 8. Already at school he developed interest to cinema and at the age of 14 won and award for his short meter film Dimension. Stathoulopoulos studied film-making in Colombia, then at the California State University.{{cite web
| url =https://cineuropa.org/en/filmography/215463/
| title =Spiros Stathoulopoulos
| publisher = Cineuropa
| access-date =2025-02-10}}
PVC-1 debuted at the 60th Cannes Film Festival[http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=2&page=638&SectionID=5&MovieID=945 PVC-1], International Thessaloniki Film Festival. Retrieved 16 May 2009.[http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/directors/10141/Stathoulopoulos-Spiros.html Spiros STATHOULOPOULOS—Biography], Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Retrieved 16 May 2009. in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and won numerous international awards including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.[http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=2&&page=640&newsid=867 48th TIFF Awards], press release, International Thessaloniki Film Festival, 26 November 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
Meteora, his second film, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2012/02_programm_2012/02_programm_2012.html |title=Programme 2012 |date=2012-01-09 |accessdate=2013-08-30 |work=berlinale.de}}
His segment Killing Klaus Kinski (2016), from the Colombian omnibus film Amazonas, competed in the 2017 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, as well as other international festivals in 2018 and 2019.{{cite web |title=KILLING KLAUS KINSKI BY SPIROS STATHOULOPOULOS |url=https://cinando.com/en/Film/killing_klaus_kinski_346161/Detail |website=Cinando |access-date=17 November 2023}}
His next project (working title Godard Knows The Truth) was pitched at the Les Arcs Coproduction Village.{{cite web
| url =https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/363636/
| title =Les Arcs Coproduction Village unveils its selection
| last =Lemercier
| first =Fabien
| date =2018-11-21
| publisher = Cineuropa
| access-date =2025-02-10}}
His next feature, Cavewoman, was released in 2022. A modern interpretation of Euripides's Electra, it starred Angeliki Papoulia as a protagonist, a female resistance fighter during the Nazi invasion of Greece.{{cite web
| url =https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/section-tiff/movie/1254/14630
| title =Cavewoman
| publisher = Thessaloniki International Film Festival
| access-date =2025-02-10}} At the 63d Thessaloniki International Film Festival it won the JF Costopoulos Foundation Award.{{cite web
| url =https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/434563/
| title =I Have Electric Dreams scoops Thessaloniki’s Golden Alexander
| last =Economou
| first =Vassilis
| date =2022-11-14
| publisher = Cineuropa
| access-date =2025-02-10}}
References
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Category:Colombian people of Greek descent
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