Professionals / Minos Papas

MINOS PAPAS (D.G.C.) Director • Producer • Screenwriter • Cinematographer Minos Papas is an award-winning Director and Producer based in Los Angeles, NYC and Cyprus, with 25+ years of professional experience working in the US. His first gig was pulling focus on 16mm for a German ZDF TV crew at the age of 16. Minos comes from a family of acclaimed filmmakers and he grew up on film sets, in castings and in projection booths. ​ ​In 1999 Minos moved to from Cyprus NYC to formalize his film education at the School of Visual Arts. After picking up the school's best cinematography award, he established Cyprian Films, New York (CFNY) to make independent films and commercial videos. ​Since then, CFNY's films have been sold and distributed commercially, have screened at major festivals including Sundance, and have won awards at the Tribeca Film Festival and the NY EMMYs. ​Minos has enjoyed working with Martin Scorsese, filming Scarlett Johansson, and having his work compared to David Lynch in the press. He is into Tarkovsky, Kubrick, football (soccer), death metal and kittens. In 2022 Minos established POLYORAMA PICTURES, a full service production company operating in Nicosia.