Yorgos Avgeropoulos is a Greek

Greece

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 journalist

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 and documentary

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 filmmaker. He is the creator of the Greek awarded documentaries series "Exandas".

He was born in Athens

Athens

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 in 1971. He has worked for Greek television stations covering news stories in Greece and major events around the world. He has, also, worked as a war correspondent

War correspondent

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 in the wars in Bosnia

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, Croatia

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, Iraq

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, Afghanistan

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, Kosovo

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 and Palestine

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. In 2000, he created the documentary series "Exandas" (meaning sextant

Sextant

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) which has won many awards in film festivals and documentary festivals in Greece and around the world and is currently broadcasted on Greek public television.

External links

• New Exandas website
• Exandas website
• Exandas on Youtube
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• Small Planet documentary production company