PURE LIFE

Panayotis Evangelidis was born in Athens, Greece, where he lives and works. Among others, he is a film director, screenwriter, writer, literary translator, and traveler. He has published four novels, written in Greek, and he translates mainly from Japanese and Spanish. He occasionally lectures on Japanese art, poetry, and culture. He has written scripts for several contemporary Greek films, including True Life, Strella, and Xenia, in collaboration with their director Panos H. Koutras. He primarily makes human-centered observational documentaries: Portraits of different people, films that are usually set in rooms behind closed doors but unravel in dialogue with open-minded and open-hearted individuals.