Stefanos Sitaras

Stefanos Sitaras is a Greek film director, screenwriter, and producer. Films he has directed include Galazio kai portokali (2004), H. (2014), and O pyravlos (2019). His father was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his mother is of Italian ancestry. His career began at age 13, when he attended the New York Film Academy program in Paris and directed Through the Eyes of a Child (2003). At age 14, he wrote and directed the award-winning Galazio kai portokali (2004), a historical epic about the Asia Minor wars of 1914. Shot and presented in 35mm, the film opened the 2005 Athens International Film Festival, stirring audiences and critics into an experience which, according to Thodoris Koutsogiannopoulos, "conveys memories written in our DNA, and translates war into concrete terms of time and space, scarce even among accomplished filmmakers with years of experience." The young director's career continued with the Trilogy of Zitiano, three short films about the adventures of a street beggar. Esperando (2005), Hitherto (2006), and Morbido (2007) competed in a prodigious amount of international film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Palm Springs, Berlinale, Mannheim-Heidelberg, LA Shorts Fest and the Thessaloniki Film Festival. During that time, he also directed the comedic short Gregory and Stamatis (2006), the documentary The Verification (2006), and more. In 2007 he moved to Boston Massachusetts, to study film at Emerson College, with a scho…