Team.

ibolomyti@argonautsproductions.gr

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.

elena@argonautsproductions.gr

Elena has studied psychology at the University of Athens and Filmmaking at The New York Film Academy, New York. For 15 years she has been working as an assistant director in New York and Greece for several films and tv projects both in national and international level. She has produced television shows, working both as a financial and creative producer. She has produced and directed short films and documentaries. She has also taught directing, script writing and video editing in private colleges and schools in Greece. She has an extensive experience as a senior copywriter for major advertising agencies and worked in the marketing department of great corporations in Greece. She has overseen the execution of several events, promotional campaigns and conferences, as well as being the content manager for sites about culture, entrepreneurship and success stories. The combination of knowledge attained throughout her career, has found its manifestation in her new role, leading the International Productions Services for Argonauts.

Dimitris Tsakaleas is a film producer and director from Greece. He holds the Filmmaking Certificate from the London Film Academy (Short Courses) and he graduated from School of Film Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in Audiovisual Film Production. His research study focuses on the way A24 distributes films on the time of social media. has worked as a producer in several short films, a feature film, commercials and music videos. He has attended Berlinale Talents (2020) and Sarajevo Talents (2016) campuses. He was also in the production team of a series of mini documentaries that took place at the 57th Thessaloniki International Film Festival titled “POV’s”. During May of 2018, he was chosen to participate at the Sarajevo City of Film Fund to produce 4 short films that will be shot in Sarajevo. His films have travelled to prestigious film festivals across the world (Toronto IFF, Clermont – Ferrand IFF, Sarajevo IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, Comic – Con IFF, Gijon IFF, etc.) and his feature film also was independently distributed in Greece. He is a directing duo alongside Lida Vartzioti, with whom are currently working on their first feature film. Also, he is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA).

A graduate of Political Sciences from Great Britain, Helene received a scholarship for postgraduate studies at Charles University, Prague and Eötvös Loránd, Budapest in the field of Social Sciences. In 2013, she began her professional career as a film producers’ assistant at the Origo Studios in Budapest, where she gained experience working on big scale productions (Hercules– dir. Brett Ratner, Spy– dir. Paul Feig) from the U.S.A, Europe and Canada. She has taken directing and cinematography courses, directed her personal short films and worked on international features as Director’s Assistant or Line Producer (Publieke Werken, 2014, Netherlands / Hungary, dir. Joram Lürsen, Tsatsiki, 2015, Sweden / Greece, dir. Lisa James Larsson, Interrail, 2018, France/ Serbia / Hungary/ Greece). As part of the Argonauts team, she is the right hand of veteran producer Panos Papahadzis and is developing her own projects. Currently she is developing a feature film (The Woman with the Gun dir. Yorgos Servetas – Berlinale Market 2017) and a documentary (Dear Future, dir. Christiana Cheiranagnostaki).

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.