Drew Xanthopoulos is an Austin-based director and cinematographer. His award-winning documentary short, Western Brothers’ Adventure Story, has screened internationally, including at the first annual Vimeo Awards + Festival in NYC, and is used by youth education programs such as The Young Storytellers Foundation in Los Angeles. His experimental western, The Finalé, which he also shot, was nominated for the 2011 American Society of Cinematographers’ Student Heritage Award. Drew is due to receive his MFA from UT-Austin’s Radio-Television-Film department this Fall and regularly freelances as a narrative and documentary cinematographer and director.

His recent projects as a cinematographer include the PJ Raval-directed “Rantings” scene from AFS’s Slacker 2011 remake, Kat Candler’s upcoming fictional short Hellion, and Russell Bush and Elizabeth Oakham’s natural/social documentary The Vulture Project, which recently wrapped its 4-week shoot in Tibet.

Drew’s work as a director and cinematographer focuses on the relationships between characters and their (often changing) environments, and employs uniquely immersive cinematography to guide audiences past their expectations of conventional cinema.