Asteris Kutulas

Asteris Kutulas is a Greek-German author, filmmaker, conceptual artist and producer. He served as a writer and director of several film and ballet productions, as well as dramatic advisor for theatre and opera productions. Born to Greek political immigrants in Romania in 1960, Asteris Kutulas and his family moved to East Germany in 1968. He graduated from Dresden's Kreuzschule and went on to study German literature and history of philosophy at Leipzig University. From 1980 to 2000, he has been working with the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, producing books, videos and over 35 music CDs and organizing more than 150 concerts (a.o. in Canada, Chile, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Turkey, Australia and most European countries). Asteris Kutulas is an events-industry veteran who has produced hundreds of shows and concerts worldwide since 1979 and has worked on numerous video and TV music productions with artists like Mike Oldfield, Scorpions, Motörhead, Klaus Schulze, Buena Vista Social Club and Westbam. He has worked as producer and partner for the 40 mega events directed by Gert Hof between 1999 and 2010 that have had an aggregate live audience exceeding 10 million people and worldwide media contacts amounting to several billions. From 2010 to 2018 he has been the executive producer and artistic consultant of all Apassionata productions, the biggest European family entertainment show. Asteris Kutulas founded Hellas Filmbox Berlin, the first Greek film festival in the German capital in 2016 He was the creative director of the festival till 2019.