He was born in Athens in 1956. He studied Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Film in Paris. He began working as a film critic early on, first at Synchronos Kinimatografos magazine and then at the Avgi Newspaper and Anti magazine. In 1984 he hade his directorial debut with the short film Verandas, and two years later he shot his second short film, Theatre. In 1989, he directed his first feature film, Olga Robards, while in 1992, together with filmmaker Stavros Tsiolis, he directed the film Please, Ladies, Don't Cry, which won the award for Best Direction and Screenplay at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1992, and the Culture Ministry's State Quality Award the following year. He worked with Stavros Tsiolis on two more screenplays -About Vassilis and The Hidden Treasure of Hursit Pasha-and with Nikos Panayotopoulos on the screenplay for the film The Woman Who Dreamed. He wrote short stories and novels (most notable of which were New Athenian Stories and The Line of the Horizon), while his cinematic interventions and certain others of his essays on various subjects have been published in two volumes, Second Screening and From Chaos to Paper. He died in 1993.