Yiorgos Tsangaris is a graphic artist and experimental animation filmmaker. He is the founder and artistic director of Animafest Cyprus, the official International Animation Film Festival of Cyprus and one of the oldest film festivals in this country (founded 2002). He is the director of the Hambis Municipal Printmaking Museum in Nicosia. As a graphic artist and film curator in the last twenty years he has had important collaborations in the field of film festivals, theatre and major cultural organisations in Cyprus and internationally. He has curated guest programmes and has served as a jury member for numerous animation festivals around the world.