Stergio Esca
Director

Stergio Esca is one of the directors of The Dragon's Path. He is a 24 years old film director and visual artist from Greece. Founder of the international independent cinema label Iris Umbra Pictures. He has created different type of films, and worked in many different kinds of art media in collaboration with many artists from different fields. Experienced and educated in the field of contemporary fine arts and independent cinema.​​

Since 2018, Stergios Karatsividis (as his real name) have been working as a professional photographer and videographer at the Studio Image photography studio in a small town called Alexandria, Greece, while he took part in larger-scale jobs as he participated in the videography of various events in the wider area and in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece.

  From September 2019 to May 2024, he studied at the Fine Arts Department of the School of Fine and Applied Arts, in Cyprus University of Technology, with specialty in installations, photography and three-dimension media.

  Since 2022, he's active in the field of independent cinema, developing experience in almost every field of the creative process. His filmography explores the limits between cinema and contemporary art with a major bibliography and references to cinema history and art history. In January of 2024, with Manuel González-Espresati Alventosa, they attempted to create and establish an international label of independent film productions called Iris Umbra Pictures, with partners in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Netherlands, France and other European countries.

The year of 2025 finds Stergio Esca creating his first feature film in collaboration with Manuel González-Espresati Alventosa and signs as the scriptwriter and director of The Dragon's Path.

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