Biography
George Drivas received an M.A. in Film and Media Studies at Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany and a B.A. in Political Science at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions namely, Special Mention at the “Strange Screen”, Experimental Film and Video Festival, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (2009), 2nd prize at VII Media Art Forum, XXVII Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia (2006), 2nd prize at the Zebra International Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany (2002); Jury Award for Experimental Short Film at the New York Expo, NY, NY (2002); and Award for Best Greek Audiovisual Work Abroad by the Greek Ministry of Press and Media for Short Documentary (1999).
George Drivas’s work has been featured as a Solo Show at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2009) and is part of the Athens’s MoCA permanent collection.
