Giorgos Tsemperopoulos

Born: 1950-05-03

Giorgos Tsemberopoulos is a Greek director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Athens. He studied economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business, while working as a photographer. He studied directing at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where he lived and worked until 1981. In 1987, he founded Filmiki Productions SA in Athens, where he produces commercials and directs feature films. Former member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Film Center, founding member of the Association of Film Directors/Producers, former member of the Board of Directors of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, member of the Board of Directors of Greenpeace Hellas. In October 2019, he was elected president of the Hellenic Film Academy, a position he holds to this day. Megaras' film, which he co-created with Sakis Maniatis in 1974, has been described as an important political document and the first ecological documentary in Greece. In 1974, it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festiva and the Best Production Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. In 2013, it was honored by the Megaron Concert Hall for the 40th anniversary of its first screening, with the event: "The power of cinema to intervene in major social struggles..."


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Loafing and Camouflage

as Mexican singer
Released: 1984-10-01

The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military...

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Luton

as Jimmy's father
Released: 2013-10-10

Jimmy, Mary and Makis are three people living their everyday day life in an entirely different...

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Loufa kai parallagi: Seirines sti steria

as Council Member
Released: 2011-10-27

Seven years after the incident in Pitta, all from the group leaves the Aegean, and get's to...

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Cowboy

as uncredited
Released: 2017-09-22

In a few days Minas is going to participate in a TV show called "Talent of the year". A TV crew...

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Arpa Colla

as (uncredited)
Released: 1982-10-06

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has...

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Unfair World

as Waiter
Released: 2012-02-02

Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he...

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Black - White

as Kostas Kafetzoglou
Released: 1973-09-25

A young man (Giorgos Tsemperopoulos) arrives in Athens to study at the School of Fine Arts. He...

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Affection to the People

as Self
Released: 2013-04-12

A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on...

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