MILKY WAY

Vasilis Kekatos, born in 1991, is a Greek writer, director and Sundance Institute fellow. In 2018, with his short film “The Silence of the Dying Fish”, he was selected and awarded in many important film festivals, such as Locarno, Sundance, Palm- Springs, and Tallinn Black Nights. With his film The Distance Between Us and the Sky he won the Palme d'Or for best short film, as well as the Queer Palm, in the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The film continued its festival run with the most significant stations being Sarajevo, Clermont-Ferrand, AFI and Telluride, for which it was selected by Barry Jenkins. During the first lockdown of 2020, responding to an invitation by the Onassis Foundation, Vasilis created As you Sleep the World Empties, an experimental short film which was a great success online and later secured distribution in movie theaters. His work has been critically acclaimed in various well-known international publications, such as the Hollywood Reporter, Screen Daily, New York Times and Sight & Sound. Besides being a film director, Vasilis has also been involved in art photography, having been commissioned by Vogue and Gucci to photograph the international model Winnie Harlow, among other works. He recently finished working on Milky Way, a limited-series which he wrote and directed. The show premiered in the official competition of Series-Mania and has already been bought by Fifth Season. Vasilis’ debut feature film is in the stage of post-production and it is scheduled to come out in 2024.