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 films as an assistant 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; as well as the TV documentary feature film Bullying Diaries, produced for the Greek child welfare organization The Smile of the Child. In addition, he has co-directed projects commissioned by the Hellenic Post, Onassis Stegi and the Cavafy Archive. He has also directed music videos and two episodes of the TV documentary series Pirates of the Aegean. In 2014, his feature script What a silly boy was selected for the !f Istanbul-Sundance Screenwriters Lab. In 2020, he was selected to participate in the program Sarajevo Talent Campus with his feature script The Village in the Woods, while for the same project he also received a script development grant from the Greek Film Center. In 2021, he directed the TV documentary film The Battle of Lepanto and co-directed the TV documentary series The Generation of the 30’s as well as the documentary film The Massacre of Chios. Also in 2021, he received a commendation for his theatrical play Fuit in the biennial playwriting competition organized by the Greek State. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by Artworks (2022).