Dimitris Tsakaleas is a director and film producer from Greece. He holds the Filmmaking Certificate from the London Film Academy (Short Courses) and has graduated from the School of Film Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in Audiovisual Film Production. His research study focuses on the distribution strategies of the entertainment company A24 in the time of social media. He has worked as a producer in several short films, commercials and music videos, and on a feature film. He has attended Berlinale Talents (2020) and Sarajevo Talents (2016) campuses and was chosen to participate in the Sarajevo City of Film Fund (2018). His films have travelled to prestigious film festivals across the world (Toronto International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Clermont – Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Sarajevo International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the annual convention Comic – Con IFF (USA), Gijon International Film Festival (Spain), etc.), while his feature film was independently distributed in Greece. He is an associate producer on Zacharias Mavroeidis’ upcoming film, The Summer with Carmen. He is part of a directing duo with Lida Vartzioti with whom they are currently working on their first feature film, and a member of the European Film Academy (EFA). He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).