Born in a small town in Greece, at the age of 18 Vasilis Katsoupis went to Hull in England to study Media Production. He returned to Greece to work with a music-video director before heading back to the UK to spend a bohemian year in London and then up to Sheffield to do his masters in Direction and Film Producing. Later, he was back in Athens to work as a director of commercials before he made his first documentary in 2016.
