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Sotiris Petridis is a freelance filmmaker based in Thessaloniki, Greece,
with several short films, a feature film and selected audiovisual spots in
his filmography.
More specifically, his filmography includes
award-winning films such as The Balloon (2013), e-Social (2015) White
Collar (2016), #NotAlone (2017), 9023 (2017) and Re-Live (2019). His
films have traveled to over 40 countries and 400 International Film
Festivals, winning a plethora of awards.
His first feature film
(as a screenwriter and a producer), Scopophilia (2018), premiered at
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, where it won the Special Youth
Jury Award. The film continued its success, while it has received
the Maryland International Film Festival's Best Foreign Language Film
Award. Scopophilia has 16 official selections at film festivals
worldwide, and in February 2019, the film was screened in Greek
cinemas.
In addition to creating films, he also deals with
academic research and teaching of the audiovisual medium. Since
2012, he has taught film courses at various private and public schools in
Greece, such as the Aristotle University, the Hellenic Open University, the
Andreas Voutsinas School of Drama, and the AKMI Institute of Vocational
Training. At the same time, he has written academic books and
articles on cinema and audiovisual narrative.
He is a member of
the Greek Film Academy, a member of the European Film Academy, and a member
of the Greek Screenwriters Guild. In 2019, he participated in
Sarajevo Talents, which is organized by the Sarajevo Film Festival and the
Berlin International Film Festival. In 2020 he participated again as
an alumnus in Sarajevo Talents and in its Script Station, in which he
worked his new feature script. Finally, in 2020 he was one of the
participants of the Thessaloniki – Locarno Industry Academy. |
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