Yorgos Krassakopoulos

Head of Programming

Greece
Company Info

Type: Film Festival

Company Description: Having started working as a film critic Yorgos Krassakopoulos was a founding member and chief programmer at the Athens International Film Festival up to 2001. Since then, he has worked non stop as a film critic and is also one of the founders of the most popular and influential Greek movie website, Flix.gr. 
From 2011 to 2016 he was one of the programmers at the Thessaloniki
International Film Festival and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, while
he has also been editor for several of the festival’s monographs. 
On 2016 he became the Head of Programming of the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Since 2015 he is also a member of the European Parliament’s LUX Prize selection panel.