Theo Panagopoulos

Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker, film programmer and PhD candidate based in Scotland. His filmmaking explores themes of memory, politics, fragmented identity, and language, all connected to collective trauma and healing. His creative short documentary My Own Personal Lebanon screened in multiple BAFTA-Qualifying festivals, shortlisted for the IRIS award of the Hellenic Film Academy and won the Odysseus award at the International Documentary Festival of Kastellorizo. His most recent documentary The Place between Was & Will Be premiered at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Theo is currently directing his next fiction short film commissioned by BFI Network and Screen Scotland.