Yorgos Zois was born in Athens in 1982. His first short film Casus Belli premiered in Venice in 2010 and participated in the official competition of over 50 international film festivals worldwide (Rotterdam, Clermont Feerand, Tokyo Short Shorts, Brussels, Krakow, Palm Springs, LA SHORT FEST, Era New Horizons, Melbourne IFF etc) winning several awards. It was theatrically distributed in Greece and france and was broadcasted by several TV stations. He is currently working on his first feature Stage Fright, the script of which was awarded the development prize of CNC (French Film Center) at the Cinelink Co-Production Market of Sarajevo IFF 2011, while it has been selected to participate at the Torino Film Lab Framework 2012.