James Fotopoulos

About James Fotopoulos

Who is it?: Director, Producer, Writer
Birth Day: June 19, 1976
Birth Place: Norridge, Illinois, USA

James Fotopoulos

James Fotopoulos was born in Norridge, Illinois in 1976. He attended film classes at Columbia College in Chicago, but...
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Popular As James Fotopoulos
Occupation Director
Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born June 19, 1976 (Norridge, Illinois, USA)
Birthday June 19
Town/City Norridge, Illinois, USA
Nationality USA

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James Fotopoulos’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.

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James Fotopoulos was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

James Fotopoulos was born in Norridge, Illinois in 1976. He attended film classes at Columbia College in Chicago, but later dropped out. His film Migrating Forms (2000) won the Best Feature award at the New York Underground Film Festival.

His feature Films have screened internationally at many prestigious festivals and venues including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Sundance Channel, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (where he was voted "Artist of the Year"), the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and Chicago Filmmakers.

James Fotopoulos has been compared to the hand crafting avant gardists like Stan Brakhage, Malcolm Le Grice and Kurt Kren, and revered by top critics as an artist whose films display strong atmospheres and deal with sexual and psychological power struggles.

He has also directed over 100 short films.He was Runner Up in Amy Taubin's Village Voice Year End Top Ten list in 2000, and made the NY Press Year End Top Ten List that same year. In 2002 the Anthology Film Archives sponsored a major retrospective of his films up to date, and his feature Families was screened in the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

In this same year, he received the Creative Capital Grant for his exploratory presidential biography entitled Richard Nixon, a 10-hour-plus trans-media corpus in variably exhibitable sections, and was approached to publish a book of 400 drawings entitled The Lime Book.

In 2005, Fotopoulos was hired by Barney Rosset, famed publisher of the Evergreen Review (providing the first widespread domestic access to literary figures like Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter), to direct a short film of an Ionesco short story in a triptych of films known as the Evergreen Trilogy premiering at the MOMA in May 2006.

Also a renowned multi media artist, he recently completed an installation for the 2005 Contour Biennial for Video Art.

James Fotopoulos Movies

  • Migrating Forms (2000) as Director
  • Back Against the Wall (2002) as Director
  • Zero (1997) as Director
  • Two Girls (2018) as Director

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