About

Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker, film programmer and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and archives.

He works between documentary and fiction and has directed multiple short films that have screened in festivals internationally such as Sundance, IDFA, True/False, Slamdance, Doc Lisboa, London Short Film Festival, Thessaloniki, among others.

His most recent film is a documentary essay called “The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing”, commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap scheme, which had its World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, won Best Short Film at IDFA and has been nominated for a BAFTA.

He is currently in his final year of a practice-as-research PhD at the University of West of Scotland developing which explores decolonial methodologies and performance as counternarrative to never-befores-seen film archives of 1930s Palestine.

He has also worked as a film programmer with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival and the SAFAR Film Festival and has been selected as part of multiple programming labs and initiatives such as The Barbican Emerging Curators (2023), SAFAR Futures (2022) and Film Hub Scotland's New Promoter Scheme (2021) and was a pre-selector for Encounters Short Film Festival (2023).