I'm not entirely sure when I started watching people this closely. It might have always been there: the instinct to stop at a face, a walk, a gesture and ask what's really going on beneath it.

What I do know is that the people I'm most drawn to film share something I find myself looking for. The courage to navigate through life. A stubborn will to carry on despite everything life has placed in front of them. The Greek word for it is ‘επιμονή’ - persistence that goes beyond discipline, closer to something you carry in your bones.

I don't always know why a particular person stops me. The last three films I made were about shepherds. Before that I couldn't have told you I'd ever make a film about a shepherd. But something in the way they move through the world, the patience, the relationship with time, I had to know more. That feeling like a strong gravitational pull toward someone, is where every film begins.

These are people who built lives without asking for recognition. Who worked hard, kept going and carried a wisdom that gets lost when they're gone. I feel an urgency about that. Cinema in my view can act like a giant vault that safekeeps the wisdom from every culture. 

I'm based in Cyprus. I work through my production company JUNO12 on documentary, branded and institutional films for organizations, brands and cultural institutions. I also work privately with individual filmmakers and teams who are trying to find the story they're really trying to tell. In December 2025 I was invited to Cambridge to present the ‘Myths of Cyprus’ (collaboration with PIO Cyprus) followed by a public Q&A.

But it all starts the same way. A signal. A feeling.