He was born in 1976 in Athens and studied Media & Film in Oxford and in Athens. He started working as a 1st Assistant Director and in 2003 he directed his first short Pendulum, which won the Best Actor Award in the Drama Short Film Festival and Best Screenplay Award in the San Francisco Festival. In 2004 he directed his second short film Tender, which garnered numerous awards and gave him the passport for Berlinale’s Talent Campus. In 2008, Argyris made his first feature film Bank Bang, which became a major commercial and critical hit, with 450.000 admissions and rave reviews from all the Press. The film also won the First Time Director Award from the Hellenic Film Academy. All this time, Argyris has directed more than 100 commercials. At the same time he has his own production company Oxymoron Films, with an extensive film portfolio. |