Hektor Sakaloglou

Hektor Sakaloglou, born in Athens in 1998, he is the youngest awarded film director in Greece at the moment. Started from a very young age with a collection of short films, Hektor Sakaloglou reached critical success with his student film, Yazidi. Yazidi except from scoring a nomination at the biggest festival in Greece earned him a finalist spot for Best Short Film Award at the Annual Greek Film Academy IRIS Awards, multiple television broadcasts, a contract with ERT, a deal with Amazon prime, a number of honorary screenings, audience recognition and a list of awards at film festivals. He is currently working on a new project and has started his own production company. Key qualities of his work are fast paced action scenes that stop suddenly with atmospheric, poetic breathing. Breaking through a lot of directing barriers he won't be scared to even break the screen in different ratios multiple times in one film. Critics have claimed his work brave, creative and fresh but on the other hand superficial and dramatic. Sakaloglou defends his work and accepts the criticism by saying ''That's the point of art though, if you want plain realism go take a walk, this is cinema, if it's not dramatic it's not enough. You just need to know the fragile line of making it over-dramatic. There is sensitivity in everything that I do and that's how it stays.''