Panagiotis Simopoulos was born and raised in Athens, Greece. He majored in Communication (Popular Culture) with a minor in Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California (BA, 1999) and completed a master's degree in Film Production at Loyola Marymount University (MFA, 2004) in Los Angeles. He has directed short length films, documentaries, commercials, music videos and live concert videos. For the past few years he has been fully involved with immersive cinema in a fulldome environment and has directed fulldome films that have been screened in Greece as well as abroad.