George Danopoulos

George Danopoulos studied sound recording theory and film history. In 2018, he completed the short documentary Rita, a film that explores the character of a sex worker in a brothel in Athens. So far, Rita has participated in 25 festivals in Greece and abroad, winning awards at 7 of them, the most important of which are: the award for best documentary at Unfiltered Cinema in Minsk, Belarus, first prize at the 13th International Documentary Festival of Chalkida in 2019, and the Grand Jury Prize at the 4th IPAS International Independent Film Festival in Athens, where Giorgos Danopoulos has been appointed a member of the jury for 2021. In November 2022, he completed a feature-length observational documentary entitled A.T.H.E.N.S.. The film’s theme was the city of Athens, as seen through the stories of its residents, offering an experiential approach to observing moments of their daily activities. A.T.H.E.N.S. had its world premiere to great acclaim at Beldocs, the international documentary film festival in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2023, he created the short documentary Exit Within as part of a co-production between the Peloponnese International Documentary Festival and the ZINEBI International Documentary Festival in Bilbao, Spain. The film links art, imprisonment in adult and juvenile prisons, and life after imprisonment, and is part of the feature-length documentary series Claiming Freedom. Exit Within premiered in Greece at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. He is currently in the process of producing the documentary Living Ruins a film in which abandoned places are interwoven with the sounds of seven locations from an imaginary past and brought back to life in the present. He is also in the pre-production stage of a feature-length documentary in Mexico City entitled The House of Beautiful Flowers.