BIO
Drew Xanthopoulos is the Emmy-nominated director and cinematographer of the Emmy-winning AppleTV+ feature documentary Fathom (Tribeca, AFI Docs, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki 2021) and the award-winning feature documentary The Sensitives (Tribeca, CIFF, Big Sky, Thessaloniki 2017).
Fathom was also shortlisted for a British Documentary Award, won the Best International Film Award at the International Festival of Science Doc Films (AFO), and was showcased by the National Academy of Sciences. The Sensitives received an Honorable Mention for the Vision Award at the Camden International Film Festival, was showcased by the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and won the Points North Pitch Forum.
His collaborations as a freelance cinematographer have premiered at Sundance, Berlinale, Chicago Int’l Film Festival, and SXSW and have been distributed by PBS, Netflix, ESPN, CNN, National Geographic, and IMAX.
Drew has been a fellow of both the Sundance Institute and Tribeca Film Institute. He has taught or lectured at Harvard University, Montana State University, the University of Southern California, the Big Sky Film Institute, and the University of Texas at Austin.