Giorgos Papalios

Giorgos Papalios was born in Alexandreia, Greece, in 1946. In 1957, he relocated with his family to Athens, where he finished High School before moving to the UK to pursue undergraduate studies, specializing in economics. He has been involved in cinema since 1972 as a producer, with the company Positive, providing support to directors such as Theo Angelopoulos, or Nikos Panayotopoulos in their initial career steps, and contributing to the emergence of the New Greek Cinema in the ’70s. He produced fourteen short and feature-length films, including Theo Angelopoulos’s Days of ’36 and The Travelling Players, Nikos Panayotopoulos’s The Colors of Iris, Tasos Psarras’s The Reason Why, Kostas Sfikas’s Model, Kostas Aristopoulos’s A Letter to Nazim Hikmet, Dimos Theos’s Kierion, Yannis Smaragdis’s The Cell 0, among others, which won dozens awards in Greece and abroad. He was also the producer of the television series I daskala me ta chrysa matia by Kostas Aristopoulos, Poreia 090 by Tasos Psarras, as well as the documentary The Struggle of the Blind by Mairi Papaliou. From 1976 onwards, Positive has primarily focused on the production of political documentaries, including Gynaikeia portreta, Lykia, Makedonia, Ipeiros, Etos Sokrati etc. Between 1981–1984, he served as a member of the Greek Film Centre’s Board of Directors and as its President from 2006 to 2011. Lastly, he is also involved in the shipping industry and the stock market.