Fil Ieropoulos, born in Athens in 1978, studied film and cultural studies at the University of North London and Media Arts at Westminster. He earned a PhD in Arts and Communication from the University of Kent in 2010. A Senior Lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University since 2003, his first feature, ORFEAS2021, premiered at Thessaloniki IFF. His second feature, Avant-Drag!, premiered at IFFR.