Stelios Bouziotis
"Stelios Bouziotis was born in Athens in 1981 and holds a degree in Music Technology and Acoustics Engineering by the University of Crete. His first feature-length documentary, ""Stoker,"" premiered and competed at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in March 2023. The same month competed at International film festival L'Europe Autour de l'Europe Film Festival in Paris. Stoker has won the 1st prize at DocFest and the journey continues since the next destination. Stelios Bouziotis has directed and edited three short films, with his latest work, ""Two First Days,"" being screened at the 2nd short film festival organized by Onassis Foundation in 2014. Since 2011, he has collaborated with the director Menelaos Karamaghiolis on the documentary series ""Meeting with remarkable people,"" which currently consists of 24 films and is ongoing. He has also worked as director of photography, camera operator, sound recorder and editor on 180 additional films for the same director's series for the interactive platform ""Meetings with Remarkable People,"" in collaboration with the Onassis Foundation. He was director of photography and editor for the feature film ""Love, Love, Love"" directed by Costas Zappas, while in 2019 they completed filming ""Frankestein REC"" with an international co-production and distribution. He has worked on various collaborative projects, including the project ""Human Flow"" by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in Idomeni in 2016, and filmed and edited the interview of Marina Abramovic for the ERT (Greek National Tv) show ""Age of Images'' at Onassis Foundation. Additionally, he has collaborated with the KEY FRAME company on award-winning documentaries ""Giannena of thoughts and legends"" and ""Byzantine Kavafis,"". Finally, he worked together with Maria Papadimitriou (and Menelaos Karamaghiolis) taking over the sound design for the video project ""AGRIMIKA,"" which represented Greece at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015. "
Stoker
How do you write a letter to a person you have never met? A moving image about family, reconciliation and the inevitability of death spanning from 1970s Greece to the present day.