Tasos Giapoutzis lives and works in London as a freelance filmmaker and Lecturer in Film at the University of Essex. His interests as a researcher and filmmaker lie in the exploration of the filmmaking process, aesthetics of film and its multifaceted spatiotemporal features. More specifically, Tasos is interested in the intersections of film and memory, nostalgia, place and displacement. He is an alumnus of Go Short Talent Campus in Nijmegen, Talent Development Campus in Cork as well as Reykjavik Talent Lab and films he directed have participated at more than 100 film festivals worldwide.

Killing My Girl has been selected at over 50 international festivals; When Dahlias Bend Down premiered at the 18th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival; The Sea had its world premiere at the 13th Reykjavik International Film Festival; the feature documentary Quiet Life premiered nationally at the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and internationally at the 18th DokuFest in Kosovo.

Tasos’ upcoming project is Mnemoninc Muse, a docu-fiction film on nostalgia as a consequence of displacement.

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