Giannis Lambrou

Yiannis Lambrou was born in 1954 in Euboea. He studied at the ‘Eugenia Hatzikou’ film school, as well as at the École des Hautes Études in Paris. He worked mainly on documentary films, which established him as one of the leading documentary filmmakers of the new generation. He served as General Secretary and Vice President of the Greek Directors Guild from 2000 to 2005, while from March 2008 he was General Secretary of the Greek Documentary Network. He taught documentary theory at New York College. He passed away on 19 April 2011.