Gregory Vardarinos
Greece
A rising young director, graduate of Edinburgh College of Art under a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. His thesis short film, a black comedy titled "Talking Piranhas" stole the limelight in international film competitions: starting its festival run with a nomination for a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award 2010 in Fiction, and ending it with the Golden Panda Award for Most Innovative Film, 2011 Sichuan Film Festival, China. An innovative filmmaker he combines the film noir genre with animation in his new endeavor “The Noir Project”. At the same time, he has made two creative documentaries for the Greek National Television (ERT).