Giannis Haritidis was born in Athens in 1982. He graduated from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physical Science of the National Technical University of Athens and holds an MA in Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has attended seminars in filmmaking and screenwriting. Since 2007 he has been working as a filmmaker on feature and short films, as well as on commercials and music videos. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).