Alexis Alexiou (b. 1976, Athens) has a degree in physics from the University of Athens and he studied cinema in Greece. In 1998 he founded the independent production company Tugo Tugo Productions. His short films Tugo Tugo (1998), Clark Kent Is Superman! (2000), Remember Me (2001), and Aristides Alopekas (2003) participated in numerous international film festivals. His debut feature Tale 52 was shown at over 30 film festivals, and was screened in the Tiger Awards competition of the Rotterdam IFF, at Toronto, and at Sitges where it won Best Screenplay. In 2010 he received a grant from the Nipkow program in Berlin in order to develop the screenplay for his second feature, Wednesday 04:45.
46. IFF Karlovy Vary
