Spiros Stathoulopoulos

Spiros Stathoulopoulos was born on Dec 05, 1978 in Greece. Spiros Stathoulopoulos's big-screen debut came with PVC-1 directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos in 2007. Spiros Stathoulopoulos is known for Amazonas directed by Maria Gamboa, Harold Devasten stars as Spanish Soldier and Alberto Valdiri as Clown. Spiros Stathoulopoulos has got 9 awards and 8 nominations so far. The most recent award Spiros Stathoulopoulos achieved is Thessaloniki Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Spiros Stathoulopoulos plays is Amazonas which will be released on Mar 02, 2016.

Known as one of Colombia's most prominent and original auteurs, Greek-Colombian film director and screenwriter Spiros Stathoulopoulos gained international recognition with his debut PVC-1 (2007). The uncut cult film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and depicts the true story of a rural Colombian mother who was turned into a time bomb. Metéora (2012), his second film, competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Set in the UNESCO World Heritage medieval monasteries, it deals with a forbidden love story between a young Greek Orthodox monk and an older Russian Orthodox nun. Killing Klaus Kinski (2016), his section from the omnibus film Amazonas (2016), was selected at Clermont-Ferrand and recreates the film set from Fitzcarraldo (1982) to confront the egos of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. Between his films, Stathoulopoulos creates academical experimental films. He is an honor graduate from the California State University in Cinema Arts. The United States government granted him an Extraordinary Ability Green Card for outstanding artistic achievement and sustained acclaim.