THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS is a Film Director, Writer & Architect from Greece. Berlinale Talents alumnus & Head Programmer of Student Int. Competition of 43rd Drama DISFF. His short film, PATISION AVENUE (13’-2018), premiered at 75th Venice Film Festival, won 3 awards at Clermont-Ferrand 2019 (Jury, Canal+, EFA) and has already selected in more than 60 top-tier film festivals. ROUTE-3 (13’-2019) premiered in official competition of 44th TIFF (Toronto) and Clermont-Ferrand 2020. GREEK SCHOOL PRAYER (20’-2014) was his successful thesis (Golden Dionysus), and SPARKLING CANDLES (9’-2019) is his LGBTQ+ sparkling short film, premiered in 43rd Frameline. He is now in the financing stage of his first-debut feature film, which he envisions as a dark, coming-of-age, folktale, PETER AND THE WOLF; the film got the main GFC & Media funding and has been developed, amongst other, at First-Films-First, MFI, Sarajevo Script Station. His next feature film project, WILD BOARS, is developing in Torino Film Lab & MFI.OFFICIAL SITE: www.thanasisneofotistos.comFILMOGRAPHY:► ROUTE-3 (Fiction-2019-13')► SPARKLING CANDLES (Fiction-2019-9')► PATISION AVENUE (Fiction-2018-13') ► POGONISKOS (Documentary-2015-11') ► PROSEFHI: Greek School Prayer (Fiction-2014-20') ► THE SUN AND THE WIND (Experimental-2013-10')*NEXT PROJECTS► PETER AND THE WOLF (Fiction-N/A-Feature Film-Financing Stage) ► WILD BOARS (Fiction-N/A-Feature Film-Development Stage)