POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD

Konstantinos Antonopoulos is a filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. His latest short POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (2019) is currently traveling in festivals (Best Directing Award at Athens International Film Festival, Audience Award at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Jury Special Mention at Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Best Editing Award at Drama International Short Film Festival). He studied computer science at the Athens University of Business & Economics and received his MFA in filmmaking from Columbia University in New York, on an Onassis Foundation scholarship. While studying in the U.S. he directed several shorts, amongst which the award-winning WITHOUT GLASSES (2009) and LEA (2013). Back in Athens he co-wrote the feature film SYMPTOM (premiered at Torino Film Festival 2015), edited the feature film MY FIRST KISS AND THE PEOPLE INVOLVED (premiered at LA Film Festival 2016) and directed numerous documentary series for the TV and the web such as GREEKS GONE WEST (2015) and INSIDER’S GUIDE (2016). His feature scripts have participated in international workshops such as Torino Film Lab and Sarajevo Film Festival's CineLink. In 2019 he received the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Award. He teaches filmmaking at the Onassis Cultural Center. He believes in patience.