Sotiris Tsafoulias
Sotiris Tsafoulias (Piraeus, 5 January 1975) is an award-winning self-taught Greek director. He was born in 1975 in Piraeus. He studied Maritime Business Administration and Maritime Law, but his great love was cinema from an early age. So, after working in business for a few years, cinema finally won him over. He has stated that he has not studied directing, but is self-taught. His first major cinematic inspiration was the Rocky films. His first feature film was “The Common Denominator” (2014), with which he participated in several international festivals, winning awards in various categories, including the award for Directing, Screenplay, Best Film and the Audience Award. The script for “The Common Denominator” was adapted for the stage by Didier Long (French theater director) and premiered at the “Théâtre de l’Atelier” in Paris, in 2017. “The Other Me” (2016) was his second feature film, which won 2 awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival: The “Michaels Cacoyannis” Audience Award and the Thessaloniki Universities Youth Committee Award - Best Film. Examples of his work in the theater are the performances Enigmatic Variations (2022), The Visitor (2023), Minor Marital Crimes (2023), The Value of Life (2024). On television, he participated in the television series Other Me, which consists of the episodes Other Me: Lost Souls (2019), Other Me: Catharsis (2020) and Other Me: Nemesis (2023), while he has also directed the novel "Seventeen Threads" by Panos Dimakis, based on a script by Mirella Papaikonomou, for the Cosmote TV channel (2024).
- Title: Sotiris Tsafoulias
- Popularity: 4.436
- Known For: Directing
- Birthday: 1975-01-05
- Place of Birth: Pireaus
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- Also Known As: Σωτήρης Τσαφούλιας
