Stefanos Sitaras

Stefanos is an award-winning Greek filmmaker, born in Athens, Greece, 1989. He started writing/directing his own projects when he was 11. At 13, he attended the New York Film Academy program in Paris, under director Michael Unger. There, he wrote, directed and edited three short films. At 14, he wrote and directed his first major motion picture, the historical epic "Light Blue and Orange," which opened the "Athens Opening Nights" film festival, engaging an international audience of over 2000 people, among them the Academy Award winning filmmaker Constantine Costa-Gavras, who congratulated him on the film. The film was an immediate sensation all throughout Athens and the 14 year old was praised by both Greek and international media. From 14-17, Stefanos directed over 20 short films, most of which participated and/or received awards in a plethora of international film festivals, including the Mannheim Intl, Film Festival, the India Intl. Film Festival, the LA Shorts Fest, the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and many more. At 17 Stefanos went to the US to study filmmaking at Emerson College, in Boston. Apart from his work in film, there he also completed his first book, "One, Two, Three Plato dies; the sexual neuroses of philosophy," published by WordClay. At 19 he directed his second historical epic "Colors of the West," in Greece, produced by ERT, the national Hellenic Radio-Television network, which won him "Outstanding Cinematic Achievement" at the 29th Annual Evvy Awards, along with "Outstanding Single-Cam Director" for "Photographia" and "Outstanding Editing" for Morbido. Since the beginning of 2010 he has written and directed 7 short films in Greece and in the US. His credits include over 40 short films, 10 educational videos, 5 commercials, 3 music videos, 1 animated film, and one feature film in the works.