George C. Siougas

Director / Writer

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Film, TV & Theatre

Assistant: Nacho Martin

Film, TV & Theatre

George is an Oscar® & BAFTA® Shortlisted Director from Athens and moved to the UK to study at the London Film School, where he made 5 short films which competed in more than 50 festivals worldwide and won between them 5 Grand Prixs and 4 Best Director awards. Two of these shorts have since gone on to be used as examples of “High Quality and Vision” in the film school’s curriculum.

George returned to Greece in 2002 after being headhunted to direct Close Your Eyes, a No1 rated prime-time hour-long weekly drama for Mega TV. The series went on to become one of the most popular series in the history of Greek TV and won 5 awards at the 2003 Hellenic TV Awards, including Best Director. After that George’s TV career took off and he directed across all platforms for the next 10 years.

Burning Heads (aka “To Gala”), his debut feature, was completed in 2012. It was nominated for 11 awards by the Hellenic Film Academy that year including Best Director, and went on to win Best Actor and Best Actress awards at Alexandria Film Festival (2012) and Best actor and Best Film in London Greek Film Festival (2012). In addition, it was selected to close the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival in 2012.

When Greece's economy collapsed in 2012, George and his family relocated to Cyprus where he directed several high end TV dramas over the next four years. In 2015 they relocated to the UK where George has established himself as a well sought out director for UK broadcasters.

His CASUALTY S36 E12 episode was amongst the four episodes nominated for a BAFTA (2022) and he was also nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award the same year.​

In 2023 George wrote and directed the short film THE ONE NOTE MAN starring Jason Watkins with the voice of Ian McKellen and music by Oscar winning composer Stephen Warbeck. It recently won the Grand Prize and Best Live Action Short at the Rhode Island Short Film Festival. **The film has been BAFTA and Oscar Shortlisted in the Best Live Action Short Film.**

​George is currently developing THE ONE NOTE MAN into a feature film and is working on another feature, CARNIVAL, a heist movie set during the Notting Hill carnival.

In Development

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SHEEP

Josh Friedman

TV-Series in Development
Written by David Cantor (based on his play)

THE ONE NOTE MAN

Cusp Films / Moseley Road Productions

Feature film developed from his short film

THE BOUNCER

Cusp Films / Moseley Road Productions

Feature in Development

THE STONE

Josh Friedman

Original Series in development

CARNIVAL

Josh Friedman

Feature in development

Television

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CASUALTY

2021 - 2023

BBC

7 x 60'

SO AWKWARD

2016 - 2017

CBBC

Short Films

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THE ONE NOTE MAN

2023

Cusp Films / Moseley Road Productions

Written & Directed by George
Starring Jason Watkins and Ian McKellen
Music by Stephen Warbeck

**BAFTA & Oscar Shortlisted in the Best Live Action Short Film**

*Winner*
• Grand Prize Best Live Action Short - Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Grand Prix Best Short/Best Male Director/Best Original Score/Audience Award + $4.5K prize money- Cannes Indie Shorts Awards (first film in festival history to win both Best Film and Audience Award)
• Best Film/Best Director - British International Film Festival
• Best Film - Night of Comedy Awards
• Best Actor/Best Score - Richard Harris Film Festival
• Best Editor/Studenti Award - Sulmona Film Festival
• Best Sound Design & Best Score - Birmingham Film Festival
• Best International Film, Best Score – Canada Shorts Film Festival

Barcelona Indie Short Film Festival
Norwich Film Festival
Cannes Indie Shorts Awards
Richard Harris Film Festival
Sulmona Film Festival
Sunday Shorts
Filmhaus
Big Apple Film Festival

THE FRIDGE

Winner 3 awards at Drama Film Festival Greece including Best Director & Best Actor
Winner Best Short & Best Director awards in the Tribeca, Houston, Chicago and Los Angeles short film festivals

LOVE TENDER

Winner Best Sci-Fi Greece
Winner Best Short Screenplay Tel Aviv

SKIN FLICK

Winner Best Short San Diego

B-MOVIE STATUS

Winner Best Short at the Moscow International Film Festival

Film

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2011

Odeon / CL Productions, Faliro House Productions

Nominated 11 awards by the Hellenic Film Academy including Best Director,
Winner Best Actor & Best Actress awards at Alexandria Film Festival (2012)
Winner Best actor & Best Film in London Greek Film Festival (2012)
Selected to close the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (2012)