Nikias Chryssos.
Born 1978.
Studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2003.

2008 Invitation to the Résidence du Festival in Paris by the Cannes Film Festival for the development of a feature film screenplay
2007 Karl Steinbuch scholarship for documentary film project
2007 Drawings and photographs exhibited at PrimeArt in London
2006 Short story "Ruinieren" is published in anthology "Mein Herz in fremdem Land" (Primero Verlag Munich)
2005 Baden-Wuerttemberg scholarship for Master Class "The Hollywood Perspective" at the UCLA Los Angeles
2005 Berlinale Talent Campus
2003 Release of my remix of Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Christine" on DJ Keoki compilation (Cleopatra/Hypnotic Records USA)
2001 Short story "Draht" published in anthology "Hallo Taxi!" (Andiamo Verlag Mannheim)
2000 Short story "Waldorf Astoria" published in hug'n'akiss (Feuerverlag Hamburg)

Films (selection):

2006 HOCHHAUS (Tower Block)
screenings (selection):
Berlin International Film Festival
St Petersburg (Centaur Award)
Drama/Greece (Special Award, GUFTAT Award, GAFC Award)
NextFrame/USA (1st place Narrative Category, Screenwriting Award)
Munich (Best Set Design)
Clermont-Ferrand (Best Soundtrack)
Odense/Denmark (Grand Prix International Competition)
Tribeca Film Festival New York
Muenster (Main Award German Short Film Competition)

2005 IHR SEID NICHT ALLEIN - ABSCHIED VON RUDOLPH MOSHAMMER (You are not alone - Farewell to Rudolph Moshammer)
short documentary, with Toke Constantin Hebbeln.

2004 DER FREMDE UND DER AFFE (The Stranger and the Monkey)
nominated for German Camera Award
screenings: European Short Film Biennale, Sehsuechte, Zebra Poetry Film Award, Orbita/Latvia, Filmschau Baden-Wurttemberg, CourtMétrange Rennes

2004 SCHWARZE ERDBEEREN (Black Strawberries)
screenings: Oberhausen, Los Angeles, Muenster, Bangladesh

2003 DOWN
short film, with Frank Brandstetter
more than 80 festival screenings worldwide:
Rotterdam, Oberhausen (Best of German Competition), EXPO Japan, Taipei, Rio de Janeiro, Tampere, Athens, Malaga (special mention), Bangladesh, Split, Teheran, Cambridge, Portugal, Jena (Déjà-vu Award), Media Art Friesland (honorable mention), Best German Shorts 2003, Nevidannoe Kino Estland (Golden Frame Award)

2003 YOUR:GARDEN - LET IT GO!
music video, shown on MTV