Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker, film programmer, educator and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and resistance, often through anti-colonial, participatory and archival methodologies.

He has directed multiple short films that screened in renowned festivals such as Sundance, Doc Lisboa, Thessaloniki among others and his most recent film, The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing. won the best short film award at IDFA 2024. He is completing a practice-as-research PhD at the University of the West of Scotland which explores decolonial methodologies and performance as counternarrative to never-befores-seen film archives of 1930s Palestine. He is currently developing his first feature documentary film supported by BFI Doc Society and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) with the title Before Our Diaspora.