Konstantinos Fragoulis, Director & Screenwriter, studied Business Administration and Cinema in Athens in 2008, and with his first short film on 16mm film, "Milk", he won the Best Student Short Film Award in Drama and the equivalent state award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. His next (3) three short films were also screened and awarded at international festivals, with "The Corpse Was Dead" (2016) standing out last after being awarded Best International Short Film in Thailand and introducing the then-debuting Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos to the public.
After writing several scripts, he ended up creating his first feature film, Gyala (2023), a co-production of the Greek Cinema Center and the North Aegean Region with a minimal budget of the microbudget program and in a record year of 15 days, entirely on the island and where he lives most of the time, in Samos. The Samotherio association has taken root there, with which it organizes a three-day film and music festival called the Samos Cinema Festival.