Gregory Athanasiou is the owner and producer of Minus Pictures production company. He had worked in film, theatre, opera and advertising in Germany and Greece before setting up his Athens-based production company Minus Pictures in 2004 to focus on cutting edge arthouse feature films by young filmmakers. With degrees in Philosophy and Physics, and courses in Linguistics, Ethnology and Psychoanalysis, he had also studied acting based on the Lee Strasberg method and attended workshops for story editing, management and legal issues, and film financing. To date, Gregory has produced four feature films by Costas Zapas - Uncut Family (2004), The Last Porn Movie (2006), Minor Freedoms (2008) and, most recently, The Rebellion Of Red Maria (2011). He co-produced Minor Freedoms with Denmark"s Zentropa whose world sales arm TrustNordisk acquired the exclusive international distribution rights to Zapas" family trilogy at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Gregory is currently developing a new feature film based on the novel "Frankenstein" written by Mary Shelley.