Andreas Apostolidis

Andreas Apostolidis (Greek: Ανδρέας Αποστολίδης) is a Greek crime novelist, documentary director and screenwriter. He is best known for the television work Reportage Without Frontiers and Tanzanian documentary A Place Without People.

Career In 1986 he directed, wrote and produced his debut short film Gri kyrioi. After the success of the film, he made the sequel of the short titled Gri kyrioi 2 in 1990. Then in 1999, he made his film debut by direction the film Dirty Greeks. In 2005, Apostolidis directed his maiden documentary The Ring. In 2002 he directed the documentary Death Match and then made a documentary about the illegal trade of antiquities titled Network in 2006.

After that, he moved to direct many television series documentaries such as Dyo fores xenos (2010), and 1821 (2011). In 2007, he directed over 125 episodes of the television documentary series Reportage Without Frontiers produced by Stelios Kouloglou. The serial later won the Best Documentary Award of the Year in Greece for record six consecutive years. In May 2010, at the Green Film Festival in Seoul, the film won the Jury Award as well as nominated at several film festivals.

Filmography

Year Film Role Genre Ref. 1986 Gri kyrioi Director, writer, producer Short film 1990 Gri kyrioi 2 Director, writer, producer, cinematographer Short film 1995 Skorpios Writer TV series 1999 Dirty Greeks Director Film 2005 The Ring Director, writer Documentary 2007 Reportage Without Frontiers Director TV series documentary 2010 A Place Without People Director, writer Documentary Dyo fores xenos Director, writer TV series documentary 2011 1821 Director, writer TV series documentary 2012 Silent Balkans Director, writer Documentary A Tomb Raider in Cyprus Writer Documentary short A Treasure of Gold Writer Documentary short The Tomb of the Hidden Mummies Writer Documentary short 2015 War & Peace in the Balkans Director, writer Documentary 2019 Citizen Europe Director Film 2021 Novela negra - Le polar latino Director TV movie documentary