Syllas Tzoumerkas

Syllas Tzoumerkas
Born	1978 Thessaloniki, Greece
Occupation	Film director
Years active	2000–present

Syllas Tzoumerkas (Greek: Σύλλας Τζουμέρκας; born 1978) is a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor

Syllas Tzoumerkas was born in Thessaloniki. He studied theatre and directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School and the University of Athens. In 2000, he directed the short film The Devouring Eyes (Ta Matia Pou Trone) that was selected by the Cinéfondation of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize at the 2001 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

His first feature film Homeland (Hora Proelefsis) had its world première at the International Critics' Week of the 67th Venice International Film Festival.Homeland participated in several international film festivals and won 5 Awards of the Hellenic Film Academy (best first film director, best supporting role actress for Ioanna Tsirigouli, original music, editing and make-up).

As an actor, Syllas Tzoumerkas participated in feature films Wasted Youth (2011) by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel Rotterdam International Film Festival and The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (2013) by Elina Psykou (Berlin International Film Festival).

The script for his second feature film A Blast won the Eurimages Co-production Award at the Cinelink co-production market of the 2012 Sarajevo film festival.

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