Ion Papaspyrou was born in 1987. I am not here right now, his latest short film, was screened in more than 15 international film festivals, including the ZINEBI International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao; the REGARD – International Short Film Festival of Saguenay; and Concorto Film Festival. The film won the Best Screenplay award at the Athens International Film Festival and a special award at the Drama International Short Film Festival. He is an alumni of Torino Film Lab Extended (2019); Zurich Film Festival Academy (2019) and of the Mediterranean Film Institute Script 2 Film workshop (2020). He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).