Born in Athens in 1979, Yannis Veslemes studied film. He has directed feature films, shorts, music videos and tv adverts. In 2014, his feature debut Norway premièred at Karlovy Vary before screening at dozens of festivals and securing distribution deals all around the world. Within Greece, the film won a series of distinctions (five Hellenic Film Academy Awards), and enjoyed a successful run in cinemas, reintroducing Greek audiences to midnight screenings. In 2018, he was invited by the American production company Drafthouse Films to take part in the feature-length anthology The Field Guide to Evil (produced by Tim League & Ant Timpson), which premièred at South by Southwest and was distributed in the US by N.EO.N.(theaters) and Universal (home video). He is currently in pre-production for his first English-language film, She Loved Blossoms More (with which he participated in Sundance Lab Istanbul). As a composer (Felizol) he has released records on many international labels (Optimo Music, Byrd Out, Invisible Inc and Inner Ear) and has composed soundtracks for numerous films (including Tale 52, Wednesday 04:45, Norway, Suntan, Thread, Cosmic Candy, Third Kind, Electric Swan). He is a member of the Hellenic Film Academy and a curator of The Lost Highway of Greek Cinema club.