Alexandros Chantzis was born in Agrinion, Greece in 1985. He is a graduate of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2011). He has worked in several theatre productions as an assistant production designer and in films as an assistant director and casting director. He has directed the award-winning short films “Student Occupation”, “Chelsea-Barcelona” and “I’ll take a deep breath and I’ll tell you” and the documentary films “Bullying Diaries”, “The Battle of Lepanto” and two episodes of the historical documentary series “Pirates of the Aegean”. He directed TV series (The Generation of ’30, The Neoclassicals: The Countess of the Factory, Mary Mary Mary), music videos, teasers for theatrical plays and projects commissioned by the Hellenic Post, Artogether – Art of People with and without Disabilities, Onassis Stegi and Cavafy Archive. In 2014, his feature script “What a silly boy” was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Istanbul. In 2020, he was selected to participate in Talents Sarajevo with his feature script “The Village in the Woods” (already supported by the Greek Film Center). The same year he received an award for his theatrical play “Fuit” in the biennial Playwriting Competition organised by the Greek State. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by Artworks (2022). He just finished the filming of his short film Fuit (an adaptation of his own theatrical play).