Yorgos Tsemberopoulos

Yorgos 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 DirectorsProducers 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 cocreated 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