Thanassis Karathanos studied political and social sciences in Athens. In 1998 he co-founded the film production company Twenty Twenty Vision in Berlin and in 2003 Pallas Film in Hallle. He is member of the European Film Academy and the German Film Academy. In 2008, he won an APSA as a producer of Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Tulpan, which won Best Feature Film. Other noteworthy films that Karathanos has produced include Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Ajami, which was directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. Both films were nominated for an Academy Award(r). He also helped produce Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria and Centaur, a 2017 APSA nominee for the Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
