Stavros Psillakis was born in Chania, Crete, in 1954. 

He is a director and producer of anthropological documentaries that usually focus on borderline situations of human existence. 

He first studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and then Film Directing at the Hantzikou Film School (Athens). 

He received a scholarship from the French state to study Anthropological Documentary Filmmaking at the VARAN School in Paris. 

He was honored with many awards, such as the 1st Documentary Film Award of the Hellenic Film Academy in 2010 for the documentary There Was No Other Way and Recently, he was honored by the 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival with the Golden Alexander award for his contribution to the art of documentary.

He is a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy and the Hellenic Documentary Association, and he has worked on films by Lakis Papastathis, Dimos Theos, Stavros Tornes, Yorgos Panousopoulos, Yorgos Tsemperopoulos (as actor), Yorgos Lanthimos (as actor). 

His rich filmography counting more than 40 films, includes the documentaries 

The Man Who Disturbed the Universe (2000), There Was No Other Way ( 2009) 

METAXA listening to time (2012), Short Gypsy Stories (2014), Olympia (2015),The Light Inside (2015), as well as the trilogy Odes to Existence, which includes the films: FOR NO REASONS meetings with Yorgos Maniatis (2019), Debt (2021), and FAREWELL the memory of the land (2022)

(2023)