Filippos Tsitos was born in Athens/Greece in 1966. He studied Marketing in Athens and worked at the same time as a photographer, director"s assistant, editor for music documentaries and producer for a radio program. Since 1991, he has been living in Berlin, where he studied Film Directing at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) under Nikita Michalkow, Dominik Graf, Jirí Menzel, Peter Lilienthal, Don Bohlinger, Dick Ross and Richard Leacock. His films include: the shorts "Prélude" (1992), "Der Hut meines Vaters" (1993), "Parlez-moi d"amour", "Komm" gleich wieder" (1995), "Charleston" (1996), "Zeit fliegt" (1996), "Griechische Spezialitaeten" (1998), and "My Sweet Home" (2000).

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH