Greek Festival programmer, writer, and teacher. He studied film at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, receiving a PhD from the department of social anthropology at the University of the Aegean. Since 1999 he has coordinated retrospectives and tributes to national film industries and directors for the Thessaloniki IFF and the Thessaloniki documentary festival; he has been programmer and coordinator of the Balkan Survey section at the TIFF as of 2002. He has published critical texts on cinema and ethnographic documentaries, and in 2004-2008 he lectured in visual anthropology.