Sotiris Tsafoulias

Sotiris Tsafoulias Piraeus 5 January 1975 is an awardwinning selftaught Greek director He was born in 1975 in Piraeus He studied Maritime Business Administration and Maritime Law but his great love was cinema from an early age So after working in business for a few years cinema finally won him over He has stated that he has not studied directing but is selftaught His first major cinematic inspiration was the Rocky films His first feature film was The Common Denominator 2014 with which he participated in several international festivals winning awards in various categories including the award for Directing Screenplay Best Film and the Audience Award The script for The Common Denominator was adapted for the stage by Didier Long French theater director and premiered at the Théâtre de lAtelier in Paris in 2017 The Other Me 2016 was his second feature film which won 2 awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival The Michaels Cacoyannis Audience Award and the Thessaloniki Universities Youth Committee Award Best Film Examples of his work in the theater are the performances Enigmatic Variations 2022 The Visitor 2023 Minor Marital Crimes 2023 The Value of Life 2024 On television he participated in the television series Other Me which consists of the episodes Other Me Lost Souls 2019 Other Me Catharsis 2020 and Other Me Nemesis 2023 while he has also directed the novel Seventeen Threads by Panos Dimakis based on a script by Mirella Papaikonomou for the Cosmote TV channel 2024