Spiros Stathoulopoulos

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, competed at the Cannes Film Festival for the Caméra d'Or in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and won numerous awards in festivals including the FIPRESCI Prize and an award in Cannes. The film depicts the true story of a rural Colombian mother who was turned into a human time bomb. With Metéora (2012), his second film, he became the first director from Colombia to ever be nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Set in the UNESCO World Heritage medieval monasteries, the film 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), competed 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.