Ilias Giannakakis

Biography

Producer, screenwriter and director of documentaries and feature films. He has implemented more than 150 documentaries and 2 feature films, as director and screenwriter. In several cases he has been also the producer himself. He has been awarded many times for his documentaries and his feature films in international and Greek festivals. Many of his documentaries have been shown in special screenings in Greece and abroad and have been successfully distributed in the theaters and in television. Since 2000, and for more than 10 years, he had been a regular director in the famous TV documentary program Paraskinio for the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT. He is specialised in the cultural (arts and literature), historical and athletic genre. In 2002 until 2003 he was advisor and reporter in a radio program for Era Spor, with the title "Mythomania", interviewing important personalities from the sports in Greece. After a long and deep research on the history and the social dimension of the athletics, he published a big essay in 2005, with the title "The Romance of the Football". In 2009 he made as director and screenwriter a documentary series for the greek broadcasting company SKAI …

Directed

1. Kalavryta: People and Shadows (2014) — Director
2. Alemaya (2004) — Director
3. Transfer (2020) — Director
4. A Belated "Thank you" (2009) — Director
5. Makronisos (2008) — Director
6. Yannis Kouros - Forever Running (2004) — Director
7. La ultima hija (2018) — Director
8. Joy (2012) — Director
9. Kostas Manoussakis: The Exiled Filmmaker (2005) — Director
10. Mahi (2025) — Director