Hi, I am Apollo Bakopoulos, an award-winning film director, producer, and screenwriter from Hellas (Greece), based in New York since 2010. My debut film, "ALIGNED," was officially selected for its European premiere at the BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival. ALIGNED won the Best Producer award at the Brooklyn Film Festival, "Human Times'', where the film had its world premiere. "ALIGNED" received the Best Foreign Feature award at the Unleashed LGBTQ Festival/Conference in Texas and at the Rio LGBTQA International Film Festival. Additionally, it won the Kim Renders Memorial Award for Best Lead Performance at the Reel-out Queer Film Festival in Kingston, Canada.

 

I worked as a cinematographer in London for three years. My work has since taken me worldwide, creating spots, commercials, and shorts in locations like London, Paris, New York, and Hawaii. I have collaborated with the award-winning artist Dan Kneece, best known for his work on ''Mulholland Drive'' and ''Blue Velvet.'' I continue to forge ahead, using film as a tool to represent LGBTQ+ in mainstream media.

 

Themes of transformation, sensuality, and beauty are often seen in my work. My vision is to maintain a safe space for empowerment, exploring identity, sexuality, and self-acceptance, especially within the LGBTQ+ community. One of my key goals as an artist is to normalize diversity, offer positive role models that embrace a healthy self-image, and encourage authentic expression. As a life coach in cognitive and various life strategy modalities, in my coaching practices I share techniques of meditation, journaling, spending time in nature, yoga, and breathwork.