Dimitris Armenakis

Dimitris Armenakis, aka Loverman, is an animation director and illustrator born in Athens, Greece. He graduated from the Department of Audio Visual Arts of Ionian University, where he directed his first short animated film entitled ‘Absorbed’ (2017). In 2019, he graduated from Royal College of Art in London (MA Narrative Animation). During his studies, he directed two animated short films: ‘First Thirst’ (2018) and ‘All You Can Eat’ (2019). ‘All You Can Eat’ participated in more than 40 animation and film festivals around the globe, was nominated for Best Sound Design at Watersprite Film Festival, for Best International Animated Short Film at UWPG Film Festival and Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, won the Stratos Stasinos prize for Best Student Film in 2020 and 1.4 Silver Award. Dimitris has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

At the moment, Dimitris is working on his new short animated film ‘The Synthetic Age’, produced by Frenel with the support of Greek Film Centre, The National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication, TVPaint Animation and Toon Boom Animation.