Summer Breeze

Alexandros Rellos graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Film Department, A.U.Th. in July 2020 with a commendation of excellency. Through the last years, he has produced, written and directed, except for some web commercials and music video clips, six short films which have participated in National and International Festivals. In 2018, he wrote, directed and produced the documentary TV Series, “Ti Fasi?”, which aired on Hellenic Parliament TV for the season 2018-2019 and two episodes were also screened at the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. His short film script, “TolisLive or (Toronto)” was awarded by the Hellenic Film Academy at the Short Film Fund programme and was co-produced by COSMOTE TV (Cable TV Network). The completed film received a Special Award for Best Newcomer Director at the 44th Drama International Short Film Festival, a Best Director Award from the Greek Directors’ Guild, a Best Student Film Award and an Audience Award at Aigio International Film Festival whilst it participated also in more than 20 International Festivals. Moreover, the director is a Sarajevo Talents 2020 alumnus and his TV script titled “Cherry & Zucchini” was shortlisted at CineKid Lab through Athens International Children’s Film Festival. His last short film “Summer Breeze” supported by the Ministry of Culture premiered at Athens International Film Festival “Opening Nights” and awarded at Cannes World Festival for Best Foreign Film while his short film scripts “Suicide Watch” and “hero” were shortlisted by Midpoint Institute and were awarded by Greek Writers’ Guild respectively.

In addition, he has worked as a First Assistant Director in various TV projects such as “Fire & Wind” produced by ERT and feature films like“Ghost” by Noaz Deshe and “Small Things that Went Wrong” by Haris Vafeiadis. Currently, he works as a writer for the TV Series “Wild Land” and as a video editor for Singapore Management University, School of Economics, while he also teaches “Acting for Cinema & TV” at the Theatre of Changes. He was a compensatory grant holder of Aristotle University during February-November 2017 and from January until June of 2018 he was an intern in Primary Education, teaching the Basics of Cinema. In 2022, he was selected to participate to Oxbelly Script Analysis Course with a full scholarship. His previous studies include Acting and Theory of Theatre at National Theatre of Northern Greece (July-September 2015), a fact that led him to participate as an actor in many short films and the 90th Anniversary TV Spot of A.U.Th. In conclusion, he has participated in the “1st International Film Conference on Greek Cinema: The Unknown Greek Cinema” and has worked as a film critic for the official blog of 57th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and as a writer for Exostis-Free Press. Last but not least, he is a Youth Pass holder for volunteer work through Erasmus+ programmes.