George Peter Barbari was born in Orange County, California to an Argentinian mother and Lebanese father. His debut feature film Death of a Virgin, and the Sin of Not Living premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. It then picked up the Special Jury prize and the FIPRESCI award at the Istanbul Film Festival, the Audience Award at the New Horizon Film Festival in Poland, and the Best First Feature Award at Leiden Film Festival in the Netherlands. It was selected for many other prestigious film festivals such as Zürich, Cork, Trois Continent, Bergen. He is now developing his second feature film titled So the Lovers Could Come Out Again and his first series titled The Sun Is Dying.