Spiros Diamantis

Spiros Diamantis was born and grew up in Greece. He got the degree of Master of Arts from the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He has directed several short films in various formats. His half hour thesis film "The Arches Beyond" was screened in the official selection of short films in Venice Film festival and other international festivals. He has won a state award in Thessaloniki Film Festival and the prize of the best emerging director in Drama Short Film Festival. During the last ten years he lives in Greece where he has directed several plays on stage, both classical and contemporary. Eyolf (2017) is his first feature film. He loves Tarkovsky and Kazantzakis, believes in nothing and all, dreams regularly, and every night he whispers 'hello darkness, my old friend'.