Lucas Paleocrassas was born and raised in Greece. He studied communication at the American College of Greece and in 2014 he gained work experience in a Los Angeles-based production company after winning a scholarship from the Libra Group conglomerate. He has directed documentaries for television and the cinema, which have been screened at international festivals and major educational institutions, including the Sapienza University of Rome and New York University. Citizen Xenos, his first feature-length documentary premiered in 2018 at the 20th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and was nominated for the Amnesty International award. In 2022, his feature-length documentary Final Year, co-produced by Anemon Productions and the Hellenic Film Center, was selected for the competition section of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The film is scheduled to be released in cinemas in the fall of 2022. In addition, he has been commissioned to create a film documenting the actions of the Active citizens Fund Greece, managed by the Bodosaki Foundation and the non-governmental organization SolidarityNow. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.