July 15 2014
We had a private screening of "DINNER FOR
FEW" at the HBO studios hosted by Kay
Antholis. Danny DeVitto came to see the film.
June 25 2014
"DINNER FOR FEW" has started it's festival
runs. First festival to accept the film is the
34th Drama short film festival.
April 8 2014
Kostas Christides is recording a live
orchestra for the music of "DINNER FOR
FEW" in Bratislava.
December 16 2013
I just finished the animation of another
short 3d animated film with the title "DINNER
FOR FEW" I did most of the artistic and
technical work with the help of Eva
Vomhoff and Kostas Christides will
compose the original music.
September 2011
My company TIME LAPSE PICTURES AE in
Athens Greece which the last few years was
under the supervision of my business
partner has closed it's doors.
August 26 2011
My film "HUMAN NATURE" is doing a festival
run this year. So far I have submitted the
film to a number of festival and have been
selected to the following:
* 6th Animfest in Athens Greece-Nominated
* 15th Cartoons on the Bay in Italy
* California International Animation Festival
in USA
* 17th Film Festival della Lessinia in Italy-
Nominated
* 8th Neum Animated Film Festival in Bosnia
& Herzegovina
* 5th Digi2011 in Drama Greece-Nominated
Receives Honorable Distinction
* 4th Animasyros in Syros in Greece-
Nominated
* 6th Pentedattilo Film Festival in Italy-
Nominated
* Monza Motor Film Festival 2011 in Italy-
Nominated
* 1st Greek Film Fest Chicago! in USA-
Nominated
* 6th Cyprus International Film Festival 2011
in Cyprus-Nominated
* 11th Golden Kuker in Burlgaria
* 4th Annual London Greek Film Festival in
UK-Nominated
* 3rd Tofuzi Festival in Georgia-Nominated
* 5th Kinofest in Rumania
* 24 hours of Nuremberg Film Festival in
Germany
* 41st Roshd Film Festival in Iran-Nominated
* 13th Panorama of Independent
Filmmakers in Thessaloniki Greece
* 11th Annual Anchorage International Film
Festival in USA
* 8th Multivision Festival in Russia
* 10th Animae Caribe in West Indies
* 8th Festival International Du Court-
Metrage De Geneve in Switzerland
* 2012 Cape Winelands Film Festival in
South Africa-Nominated
* 20th Phoenix Film Festival in USA-
Nominated.
The film was also selected to participate to
the "Lessons in the dark" children's
educational program in India.
September 14 2010
I just finished a short 3d animated film with
the title "HUMAN NATURE" I did most of the
artistic and technical work on it and Kostas
Christides did the music. Right now I'm
trying to send it in a few festivals and see
how it performs.
December 2009
The production of our second Christmas
special show, "The Boy and the Tree" is
completed
This is the second 3D production of our
Greek studio and it is co-produced by ERT,
the national Greek TV channel, myself and
Panagiotis Rappas. Evgenios Trivizas is the
writter.
May 20 2008
Feature Though the company that created
Crime Time has ordered another 92 shows!
Looks like the shows are becoming very
popular and there is international interest
from many television stations. The shows
were even screened in theatres in India.
I will be directing the 92 shows and writing
about half of the stories. Kostas Christides
will be joining the team for the music score.
April 10 2008
My company in Greece. Time Lapse
Pictures, is producing a minute long
commercial for the Greek Ministry of Sports
and Athletics. It is part of a campaign
focused to get kids off the video games and
back to traditional sports and group games.
It is noted that now days kids spend more
time playing video games than traditional
games with interaction with other kids of
their age. Together with my partner
Panagiotis Rappas we wrote the main story
of the spot. I was responsible for all shots
of the basket ball video game and basket
ball players singing.
December 3 2007
ASIFA-Hollywood has nominated me for an
individuals achievement award for my
storyboard work in the Dreamworks
animated feature film “THE BEE MOVIE”.
You can see the announcement at the
Annie awards page.
ASIFA-Hollywood is the Los Angeles chapter
of The International Animated Film Society
dedicated to the advancement of the art of
animation. Every year they award
excellence in the field of animation through
the Annie awards.
September 1 2007
I just returned from a two months trip to my
studio in Athens Greece.
The production of our show; The little
mouse that wanted to touch a star is at it's
final stage.
This is the first 3D production of our Greek
studio and it is co-produced by ERT, the
national Greek TV channel.
August 1 2007
Crime time is a series of 28 hilarious
animated short stories about a small time
crook with the worst luck in the world.
Anything this guy does goes wrong on him
and backfires. Most of the times he either
ends up in jail or gets into physical trouble.
His two enemies a group of a fat and thin
policemen with limited sense of compassion
for his misfortunes.
I directed 26 of the 28 flash animation
episodes which are produced by Feature
Though productions in India and aiming for
the Internet and web cast market. My friend
Kostas Christides ( Spiderman 3
orchestration ) is writing the music for the
26 episodes.
The shows are available at www.atomfilms.
com
March 23 2007
Animax just informed me that the"Off
Mikes" 3rd season show is nominated again
for an EMMY, this time for the short subject
broadband category. The nomination come
after ESPN send 3 of the episodes that I
storyboarded to the National Academy of
Television for consideration. "Off Mikes"
won the 2006 Sports EMMTY award for
Outstanding Achievement in Content for
Non-Traditional Delivery Platforms.
I was nominated as Animation Director.
January 29 2007
The Greek newspaper TA NEA just
published an article about me and my work.
If you read Greek you can download the
article here.
October 15 2006
I just finished directing a 16 minutes short
animated insert for a live action movie. The
movie is called "Universal remote" and is
directed by Gary Hardwick.
August 8 2006
My new online store is up and running. If
you are looking for unique trendy signature
t-shirts, apparel & gifts decorated with my
out-of-the-ordinary stylish prints, then this
collection of designs is set to satisfy even
the more demanding taste. My designs are
dedicated to men and women who choose
to dress in a way that compliments their
individuality, manifests their sense of style,
and voices their need to freely express
their sexuality. These designs are created
to make heads turn! so don't say I didn't
warn you.
The selection among other things includes
kids t-shirts and baby apparel, greek quotes
t-shirts and slogan t-shirts.
May 6 2006
I just won my first EMMY AWARD. The show
is called “Off-Mikes,” and I did most of the
animatic and storyboard work for the last 2
years.
Animax Entertainment, a leading animation
production studio, won a Sports Emmy
Award for “Off-Mikes,” the weekly original
animated series they produce for ESPN.
com. Animax Entertainment and ESPN.com
won for Outstanding Achievement in
Content for Non-Traditional Delivery
Platforms, a category that the National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
debuted this year.
This is Animax’s first Emmy Award and it is
also quite likely the first time character
animation has ever won a Sports Emmy
Award.
March 23 2006
Today I added a link with illustrations at my
portfolio page and did some re-designing of
the portfolio page itself. I'm in an effort to
get as much of my work as possible up
there but I'm afraid a good part of it it's still
in Greece and until I go back there I can't
have access to it.
March 8 2006
Finally I managed to publish my web site.
This has been a long time goal of mine but I
never had the time to collect all the material
or learn how to do it. Well... thanks to yahoo
it couldn't have been any easier.
It still needs lots of work and additions but I
think it's a start.