Stratos Tzitzis

Stratos Tzitzis
Greek film director and play writer, living in Berlin.
He was born in Veroia, a small town in the North of Greece. He studied Finance and Politics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Film Directing at the Stavrakos Film School.
After graduating, he worked as assistant director and directed three short films, winning the first prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival 1991 for “Enos Leptou Sigi” (“A Moment’s Silence”).
He then went on to direct the TV film “Kerees” /“Antenae” (1995) and the features “Love is an Elephant” (2000) and “Save Me” (2001), which won the “best actress state prize” for its leading actress Maria Zorba.
He moved to Berlin in 2004, where he worked on theoretical writings. Returned to Athens in 2009 for his third feature “45m2” (2010). He, then, wrote and directed his first theatrical play “Kafsi/Ashes” which played in the theater Olvio, in Athens, 2012-13. This play turned by him into a script and became his fourth film, completed in the beginning of 2016.
His fifth film “Night Out”, a comedy about Berlin’s night life, was shot in Berlin during summer 2016.

FILMOGRAPHY
Features:
“Night Out”, (in post production, to be completed January 2017)
“Ashes”, 2016
Written and directed by Stratos Tzitzis, out of his theatrical play “Ashes” (Theater Olvio 2012-13)
“45m2”, 2010
Written, Directed and co-produced by Stratos Tzitzis
Official selection in the international film festivals: Athens IFF “Nyxtes Premieras” (best new actress award), Hamburg Filmfest, Pecs-Hungary, Cairo, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Cyprus International F.F. (best actress award “Golden Aphrodite”, Audience award), Patras (best Greek movie award), London Greek film festival (best screenplay award)
“Save Me”, 2001
Written, Directed and Produced by Stratos Tzitzis
First State Prize for Actress in a Leading Role (2001), voted on of the 20 best Greek films ever made, at Thessaloniki Film Festival 2014

“Love Is an Elephant”, 2000
Written and Directed by Stratos Tzitzis
With 150.000 tickets, it was one of the biggest hits of the Greek box-office of the time

Mid length:

“Kerees” (“Antenae”), 1995
Written and Directed by Stratos Tzitzis
TV film for the Greek State TV (ERT)
Received a ‘young filmmaker” mention and was picked up by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

Shorts:

“Enos Leptou Sigi” (“A Moment’s Silence”), 1991
Written, Directed and Produced by Stratos Tzitzis
First Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival

“Moro Mou” (“Oh Babe”), 1987
Written, Directed and Produced by Stratos Tzitzis

“Stuck”, 1984
Written, Directed and Produced by Stratos Tzitzis
Student’s film choice, participated in Munich’s Film schools’ Festival

Theater:

“Kafsi/Ashes”, 2013
Theater Olvio, December 2012 - February 2013

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