Yorgos Tsourgiannis is an independent film producer and the founder and managing director of the Athens-based production label Horsefly Films. His credits include, among others, Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis’s debut feature A Whole Person Almost, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2026, where it won the Best Director Award, Christiana Cheiranagnostaki’s Dear Future, winner of the Golden Alexander Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Emin Alper’s fifth feature Salvation , winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale 2026, Hana Jušić’s sophomore feature God Will Not Help (2025), which premiered in the Competition section of the Locarno Film Festival and received the Best Performance Award, and Emin Alper’s Burning Days (2022), which was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to win numerous international awards including the Best Greek Minority coproduction Award of the Hellenic Film Academy.
His earlier work includes Michalis Konstantatos’s All the Pretty Little Horses (2020), an international co-production between Greece, Belgium, and Germany that screened in competition at the Shanghai and Sarajevo Film Festivals, Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters (2019), a co-production between Greece, Turkey, Germany, and the Netherlands that competed at the Berlin International Film Festival, Sahim Omar Kalifa’s Zagros (2017), a Belgian-Dutch co-production filmed in Greece by the Oscar-nominated director, Yannis Veslemes’s Norway (2014), which won the FIPRESCI Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and five Greek Film Academy Awards, including Best New Director, Michalis Konstantatos’s Luton (2013), which premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and won the Best New Director Award at the Athens Film Festival and was nominated for Best First Film at the London, Stockholm, and Copenhagen Film Festivals; and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth (2009), which won the first prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011, and earned numerous international distinctions.
Since 2017, he has been teaching in the Film Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He regularly collaborates with international workshops and institutions as a script and production consultant, including the Biennale College Cinema of the Venice International Film Festival, the Lodge Programme of the Red Sea Film Festival, the Cinelink Programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival, the ACE Programme, and the Thessaloniki Film Festival. He has collaborated with Feature Expanded, an international training and mentoring initiative organised by HOME in Manchester and Lo Schermo dell’Arte in Florence, which supports visual artists in developing their first feature films.
In 2010, he was selected for the EFP Producers on the Move programme at the Cannes Film Festival. He is a member of the ACE European Network of Producers and the European Film Academy, and since 2019 has served on the Board of Directors of the Greek Film Academy.
ytsourgiannis@film.auth.gr
