Sotiris Anastasiades

Sotiris Anastasiadis (1939-2006) was born in Athens. During the years of the military dictatorship in Greece, he strongly resisted the regime, he was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for a number of years. As a member of the “Society of Greek Directors” and an active unionist, he was distinguished for the battle he gave to ensure the official establishment of the profession of the film director and copyright rights. He directed a number of historical and ethnographic documentaries and systematically dealt with the audiovisual recording of folklore material from Albania, Epirus, Macedonia and Evia.