Spiros Stathoulopoulos (born 1978) is an award-winning film director. Raised in the city of Thessaloniki, he began making movies at a young age.[1] His family moved from Greece to Colombia when he was eight,[1] and he earned his first award at the age of fourteen for the fiction video short, Dimension, which was broadcast nationwide.[2] After he turned eighteen, he served in the Greek Army,[1] which influenced another short film, Nekropolis. By twenty-three, he had edited the feature film Habitos Sucios for renowned Colombian director, Carlos Palau.
At twenty-nine, after moving to Los Angeles to finish a formal education in filmmaking and establishing his own production company, Kosmokrator Sinema, he completed his first feature film, PVC-1.[3] This was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It also screened at the 2007 International Thessaloniki Film Festival, where it won him the Director's Award.[4]