Panos Papahadzis
Producer
Panos Papahadzis, the founder of Argonauts Productions S.A. is in the film and TV business since the ’80s. He has been an active member of the State Council of Cinematography under the authority of the Greek Ministry of Culture. He participated at the EAVE/ Media Programme in 1992 seminars for European producers. Panos is a member of the European Film Academy, and has been the President of S.A.P.O.E. (Audiovisual Producers’ Association of Greece) from 2012 until 2017, a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy and member of the Academy’s first Board of Directors as well as a founding member of the Chamber Of Greek-Chinese Economic Cooperation. In his career, Panos has produced TV series, documentaries and over 50 feature films, where many have won national recognition, commercial success and successful international festivals’ track (Cannes, Berlin, Karlovy Vary, London, Toronto, Istanbul and more). Over the years, Panos has also worked on many international co-productions (with France, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Sweden and Cyprus).
Maria Kolokotroni
Member of the Board Of Directors
Maria studied accounting at the Technical Institute of Piraeus, Athens. She has been involved in the film business since 1977. From 1984 till 2006 she was Head of Personnel and Financing (payroll/ cash flow/credit control/ cost saved/minutes/ contracts between customers and suppliers), at Prooptiki S.A., one of the biggest Greek distribution companies. From 2006 till spring 2008 she was Head of Audiovisual S.A. Finance department, after the merger between Prooptiki and Audiovisual.
Maria is a member of Argonauts Productions’ Board of Directors.
Ioanna Bolomyti
Producer, Post Production Supervisor
Ioanna studied Mathematics – Statistics, Probability and Operations Research. Βeing a part of Argonauts Productions since 2006, Ioanna is supervising the post-production phase for the Argonauts’ films and since the last two years she produces her own projects. From 2017 she participates in the company’s shareholding.
Her filmography includes, among others, the international co-productions: Roza of Smyrna, the recent box-office hit in Greece with more than 350.000 admissions (associate producer & post production supervisor), Stratos by Yannis Economides, which had its world premiere in the Competition Programme of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival (assistant producer & post production coordinator) and the omnibus project Do not forget me Istanbul (post production supervisor).
As Producer, she is currently in post production of the documentary Behind the wall about Dimitris Papaioannou’s performance Still Life, by Nefeli Sarri, and in development of two feature films: Behind the Haystacks by Asimina Proedrou, which participated in the MFI Script Workshop 2016, the Sarajevo Script Station 2015, the Berlinale Script Station 2016 and the First Film First 2016-2017 and has won two awards in Crossroads Co-Production Market 2016, including the CNC development award, and Peter and the Wolf (working title) by Thanasis Neofotistos, which had its script developed in TEEP co-production training program 2015 and in MFI Script Workshop 2016.
Ioanna is a Sarajevo Talent 2016 alumna and she has also attended the Maia Workshops 2016&2017 and the EP2C Postproduction Workshop 2014.
Helene Stergiopoulou
International Production Coordinator, Junior Producer
A graduate of European Studies & Languages from Great Britain, Helene received a scholarship for postgraduate studies at Charles University in Prague and Eötvös Loránd in Budapest in the field of Social Sciences. In 2013, she began her professional career as a film producer’s assistant at the Origo Studios in Budapest, where she gained experience working on big incoming projects from U.S.A, Europe and Canada. He has taken directing and cinematography courses. She has worked in feature films in international co-productions (Publieke Werken, 2014, Netherlands / Hungary, dir. Joram Lürsen, Tsatsiki, 2015, Sweden / Greece, dir. Lisa James Larsson, Roza of Smyrna, 2016, Greece / Turkey, dir. George Kordellas). As part of the Argonauts team, she manages the incoming international projects. As a Junior Producer, she is in the development process of the feature film Beauty Lost, script and to be directed by Mario Garefo. Currently she is Line Producing in the Greek part of the French film InterRail (working title), script and direction by Carmen Alessandrin.
Marios Karamanis
Production Coordinator
Marios studied scriptwriting and direction at the L. Stavrakos Film School and he is a member of the Greek Director’s Guild. Since 1981 he has been working in both cinema and TV as an assistant director, director and production manager. He has worked in more than 40 films, several TV shows and many advertisements. He has directed documentaries and short films. His documentaries “Holly Tries” 1989 and “Aigina- K. Aggelaki Rouk” 1991 won prizesat the “Cinema and Reality” Documentary Film Festival.
In ARGONAUTS S.A. Marios is responsible for supervising and coordinating the productions.