Ilias Giannakakis

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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 TV, under the title "For ever Champions", on the history of football and basketball in Greece, and in 2014 a documentary series for the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ERT, with the title "In the Fever of the World Cup", about the history of the World Cup. He has implemented over 30 documentaries on Theater and Drama, he himself being the director, the camera operator and the producer at the same time and following his subject for the whole period of the theatrical process, from the first day of the rehearsals until the premiere. History wise, he has studied a lot the period of the Second World War in Greece and the Civil War and he has made several documentaries on these matters. Apart from his main occupation as director and producer, he has also organised retrospectives and special screenings in Cinemas and Cultural Centers. Furthermore, he had been writing articles on the history of Cinema for more than 15 years. He has created and he keeps expanding a huge collection of old archive films, documentaries, feature films from all the ages of the Cinema, TV programs and interviews as well as magazines and newspapers with historical and cultural value.

Most Popular Ilias Giannakakis Trailers

Total trailers found: 10

Mahi Trailer (2025)

02 November 2025

Mahi, an 80-years old woman, is a former military officer who underwent gender reassignment and became a singer.

Joy Trailer (2012)

11 July 2012

Hara leaves the maternity hospital with a baby in her arms. She spends her days caring for her newborn baby.

Kalavryta: People and Shadows Trailer (2014)

11 December 2014

Kalavryta. December 1943. Devastation; the entire male population over the age of 14 executed; every house in town torched down.

A Belated "Thank you" Trailer (2009)

14 January 2009

From the onset of the civil war, from 1946 and up until 1955, court-martials had sent thousands of young people from the ranks of EAM, ELAS, and KKE before a firing squad.

Transfer Trailer (2020)

25 September 2020

The psyche of Athens through the transfer, the relocation of the National Library. The dominant old building of the National Library in the centre of Athens, with its neoclassical style pillars, tries to remind us of the Golden Age of Pericles and the sages of ancient Greece.

Makronisos Trailer (2008)

11 March 2008

In 1947, in the early days of the Greek civil war, a camp was set up on Makronisos for the rehabilitation of political prisoners, communists and leftist EAMites, so that they would ‘recover’ and join the ranks of the National Republican Greek League.

Alemaya Trailer (2004)

22 November 2004

In the Greek community of Ethiopia in the 1960s, a rich Greek disrupts the relationship between his well-bred daughter and a young man.

Yannis Kouros - Forever Running Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

Kostas Manoussakis: The Exiled Filmmaker Trailer (2005)

18 November 2005

Costas Manoussakis traced a short but impressive trajectory in Greek cinema and, after making only three films, withdrew into isolation.

La ultima hija Trailer (2018)

01 September 2018

The Last Daughter