Constantine Venetopoulos

Born in Athens Greece in 1980 -3rd generation in a lineage of ship builders- Constantine Venetopoulos graduated from London's CASS Business School with a Master's Degree in Marketing, embracing his family's cruise line heritage while staying faithful to his passion for poetry, literature, and the film world. In addition to publishing two novels, his films have premiered at Tribeca Film Festival among others. His most recent work Oscar Contender 'Draw with Me' created in partnership with 'The Trevor Project' -the leading suicide prevention line for LGBTQ youth- in collaboration with Jennifer Lopez made history at the United Nations, commemorating 50 years from the Stonewall riots and has been presented to schools world-wide including NYC's Department of Education. The film was qualified for the Oscars and had a noteworthy campaign racing with the support of the ONASSIS FOUNDATION. He has directed ABT's prima ballerina Luciana Paris and actors Bill Skarsgård, Emma Hepburn Ferrer, and Ian Alexander among others. He is the founder of 'Kuntaur Film Festival', a children's film festival in the remote village of Kuntaur in West Africa lacking access to electricity, sharing the cinema experience with the youth by deploying mobile generators and he is the creative director of The Lamin Koto Super-School Prototype for which 2020 marked a milestone when a mass scale photo posting was installed in collaboration with French artist JR's INSIDE OUT social impact platform. Constantine was recognized by JR as the face of Greece in a PHAIDON educational publication in 2020, and is a frequent speaker at Tedx Talk events. Constantine Venetopoulos has been an author, filmmaker, and advocate for human rights since 2010 is fluent in German, English, and Greek and his plans for the future involve further narrowing the gap between social impact initiatives & film.