Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos

Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos was born in Athens in 1936 and he is a cinema director and scriptwriter. From 1956 and for a decade he worked as an assistant director and production manager in more than fifty Greek films and around twelve foreign productions that were shot in Greece. He made his debut as a director with the film Open Letter but it was shadowed by the rise of the dictatorship in 1967 as he started shooting around the same time. Although the dictatorship film committee banned his movie, he managed to export it and screen it at the Locarno Film Festival and where it awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics. During the dictatorship he abandons any form of creative cinematographic activity due to belief issues and starts directing commercial productions. Until 1984 he has shot over a thousand commercials. After the fall of the junta he returns in the creative directing with the film Nemesis, which for political reason gets censorsed. The issue got escalated internationally and reached the European Board. Alongside he writes scripts and takes active part in the unionism. The Caution Danger is his third full-length film distributed in 1983. From 1985 and for five years he collects info for the film Two Suns in the Sky, that got supported by Eurimages.