Lefteris Charitos
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Lefteris Charitos is a fiction and documentary film director. He studied film at the Royal College of Art in London.
His feature documentary "Dolphin Man" (2017, Greece-France-Canada-Japan-Italy in co-production, with ARTE, French and Greek Film Centres, WOWOW, SVT, Knowledge Network, ERT, RTS) about the famous free diver Jacques Mayol, the real person behind Luc Besson's cult film "The Big Blue", has screened at the International Tokyo Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, Angers Premiers Plans and Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
He has also directed many fiction and documentary series for Greek television, including the highly acclaimed history documentary series 1821 and The Journey of Food and the fiction crime series Zone Defence.
Along with directing he has a long academic experience being a Film Production coordinator and lecturer at SAE Creative Media College.