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Stavros Psyllakis (b. 1954)

Alias:
Stavros Psillakis
Σταύρος Ψυλλάκης

Birthplace:
Chania, Crete, Greece

Born:
January 30, 1954

Biography from TheMovieDB

Stavros Psyllakis (Chania, January 30, 1954) is a Greek director and producer of anthropocentric documentaries that usually focus on borderline situations of human existence. He has been honored with awards in Greece and abroad, with the most important being the 1st Documentary Award of the Hellenic Film Academy in 2010 for the documentary THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY.  He is considered one of the pioneers in Greece in the anthropocentric documentary, with a rich work of over 40 films, in which the films stand out: THE MAN WHO DISTURBED THE UNIVERSE, THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY, METAXA listening to time, OLYMPIA, SMALL STORIES ROMA, TO MESA FOS as well as the trilogy "ODES TO EXISTENCE" which includes the films GIA CHORIS GHORIS GOUOUS meetings with Giorgos Maniatis, OFEILI, APOCHERETISMOS the memory of the place He is a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy (H.E.A.K.) and the Hellenic Documentary Association (H.E.N.).

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Film Production

Casting:
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry

Cinematography:
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2021  Debt

Director:
2000  The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2002  ABEA the congealed time
2009  There Was No Other Way
2012  METAXA: listening to time
2014  Short Gypsy Stories
2015  Olympia
2016  The Light Inside
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2019  FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
2020  My photograph
2021  Debt
2022  FAREWELL – The memory of the place
????  Dilemma
????  Milonogianni 120, Chania

Director of Photography:
2000  The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2002  ABEA the congealed time
2009  There Was No Other Way
2012  METAXA: listening to time
2014  Short Gypsy Stories
2015  Olympia
2016  The Light Inside
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2019  FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
2020  My photograph
2021  Debt
2022  FAREWELL – The memory of the place
????  Dilemma
????  Milonogianni 120, Chania

Editor:
2000  The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2002  ABEA the congealed time
2009  There Was No Other Way
2012  METAXA: listening to time
2014  Short Gypsy Stories
2015  Olympia
2016  The Light Inside
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2019  FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
2020  My photograph
2021  Debt
2022  FAREWELL – The memory of the place
????  Dilemma
????  Milonogianni 120, Chania

Producer:
2000  The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2002  ABEA the congealed time
2009  There Was No Other Way
2012  METAXA: listening to time
2014  Short Gypsy Stories
2015  Olympia
2016  The Light Inside
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2019  FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
2020  My photograph
2021  Debt
2022  FAREWELL – The memory of the place
????  Dilemma
????  Milonogianni 120, Chania

Production Director:
2000  The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2002  ABEA the congealed time
2009  There Was No Other Way
2012  METAXA: listening to time
2014  Short Gypsy Stories
2015  Olympia
2016  The Light Inside
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2019  FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
2020  My photograph
2021  Debt
2022  FAREWELL – The memory of the place
????  Dilemma
????  Milonogianni 120, Chania

Sound:
2000  The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2002  ABEA the congealed time
2009  There Was No Other Way
2012  METAXA: listening to time
2014  Short Gypsy Stories
2015  Olympia
2016  The Light Inside
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2019  FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
2020  My photograph
2021  Debt
2022  FAREWELL – The memory of the place
????  Dilemma
????  Milonogianni 120, Chania

Writer:
2000  The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2002  ABEA the congealed time
2009  There Was No Other Way
2012  METAXA: listening to time
2014  Short Gypsy Stories
2015  Olympia
2016  The Light Inside
2018  In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2019  FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
2020  My photograph
2021  Debt
2022  FAREWELL – The memory of the place
????  Dilemma
????  Milonogianni 120, Chania

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