Vassilis Kosmopoulos

Filmmaker, film director, author, producer, digital storyteller, tutor, researcher, policy-maker @Freelance (Self employed)

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Vassilis Kosmopoulos is an estimated filmmaker, in fiction and documentaries as director-writer-producer, experienced artistic/academic educator in film-directing, meticulous researcher and PhD candidate at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, University of Athens. Considered as an expert in audiovisual storytelling, expanded his professional interests into the Digital Media world and Immersive Storytelling. In parallel to his artistic professional evolution, has also proved himself as successful policy-maker and strategist within the international audiovisual and broader cultural sector. Between 2017-2019 served firstly as Director of Production and Development and subsequently as Director-General of the Greek Film Centre. Among other responsibilities, he played significant part in the selective funding of film projects (national and international ones, both fiction and documentary) evaluation processes. During his term, he officially represented Greek Cinema in international level to all important international Film community events (Cannes, Berlin, Venice etc. international film festivals) and was part of European Film policy-making organisations, as European Film Agency Directors association (EFADs). Currently coordinates and supervises the strategic masterplan for the transformation of the Old Municipal Hospital of Patras to a “Digital Centre for Audiovisual Heritage and Innovation”, which aims aims to bring together the technological and scientific world that produces cutting-edge innovative and immersive narrative tools with the artistic community of audiovisual storytelling, as an international synergy pole for developing the – infinitively expanding- Storytelling of the Digital Era.