Christos-Alexander Giotis
About:  With more than sixteen years of professional experience Christos works as a fixer, location scout, production manager and production coordinator in Greece, servicing foreign and local film, television and photographic productions filming in the country. He is also a television news & current affairs lighting cameraman, specialised in breaking television news and documentaries. Christos has acquired a rather global knowledge of both the concepts and the on-site situations and practicalities of the audio-visual business. From feature films to television news, and from the shot-by-shot manufacturing of audio-visual products to the forging of successful funding applications, Christos has had ample opportunity to understand how budgets, talent,crews, deadlines and unforeseen circumstances must be juggled to maintain production values. Credits include: National Geographic Television (USA), Discovery Channel (Terra Nova Television/US & Pioneer Productions/UK),Channel 5 (Wegelius TV/Sweden), Carlton TV (Kingfisher Television/UK),Coflusa S.A. (Camper Shoes/Spain) etc. Categories:  Location Manager, Production Co-ordinator, Production Manager eMail:  http://www.ukscreen.com/contact/cgiotis WWW:  http://www.ukscreen.com/crew/cgiotis Tel:  +30210 922 8498 Mobile:  +306944 548 577 Fax:  +30210 922 8498 Address:  Acropolis Athens 11742 Greece Company:  FilmGreece Date of Birth:  1964-06-05 Experience:  19 yrs Languages:  Greek, fluent English, varying degrees of Spanish, Swedish and German.
Training and Skills
Formal Training:  European Master's in Audiovisual Management - EMAM (Media Business School- Ronda-Spain-1997) A Thomson Foundation & Reuters trainee (1992-1997) Director of Photography Diploma - Eugenia Hadjikou Film & Television School (Athens- Greece- 1985) Other Skills:  Location Scouting; Location Management; Production Management; Production Coordination; "Fixing", Event Management, Line Production; Television news, Current Affairs & Documentaries Lighting Camera-work.
Additional Information
Professor with the University of Indianapolis- Athens, taught "Media Production-Special Topics". Professor with the Eugenia Hadjikou Film & TV College, taught "How to handle Television News & Current Affairs".
Credits
Type Production Name Company Role Year Commercials Gunnar Merrild Fotografi Bon'aparte Photo Shoot Location manager and fixer 2004 Commercials Qantas Plush Films (Australia) Location scouting & permits 2004 Corporate Clear Channel Exhibitions Troy Consultant 2004 Documentary Resurrection Channel 4 (Blakeway Productions) U.K. Location manager & coordinator 2004 Documentary Troy: beyond the movie National Geographic Television Fixer 2004 TV For the latest credits please check this link FilmGreece Location & Production Services 2004 Corporate J. Willard Mariott Award of Excellence Mariott International Inc Production Co-ordinator/Director 2003 Documentary Becoming Alexander Diverse TV (Discovery) Fixer 2003 Documentary The Mark Steel Lectures: Aristotle BBC4 Location Manager 2003 Documentary The Mark Steel Lectures: Lord Byron BBC 4 Location Manager 2003 Documentary The True Story of Alexander the Great Greystone Communications (The History Channel) Location Manager 2003 Documentary World Heritage NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp) Location/Production Coordinator 2003 Documentary Yukio Ninagawa in Herodion Theater NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Production Coordinator 2003 Documentary "Globe Walker" - Acropolis Restoration Works NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation Location Manager - Production Coordinator 2003 Documentary "Globe Walker" - The Mytilene Postman NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation Location Manager - Production Coordinator 2003 TV Friends of Europe / Satellite Tele-conference T-Systems (DE) - QTV Crews (GR) Production Coordinator 2003 TV Trevia No Izumi - The turtle and the hare FUJI TELEVISION Location services 2003 Documentary Across Oceans AtHome2002 Festival - Toronto Across Oceans; Collaborations in Contemporary Arts Cameraman & editor 2002 Documentary Moments in Time - Battle of Actium Discovery Channel (Terra Nova Television) Location scout / production manager 2002 Documentary Tests Of Faith- Anastenaria National Geographic Television Location manager & cameraman 2002 Documentary The True Story of Alexander the Great The History Channel (Greystone Communications) Location Scout 2002 Short Film Study on Falling Across Oceans;Collaborations in Contemporary Arts Cameraman & editor 2002 Commercials MAGALOC III - CAMPANA GRECIA COFLUSA S.A. (CAMPER SHOES) Location manager 2001 Documentary Atlantis Discovery Channel (Pioneer Productions/ UK) Lighting cameraman 2001 Documentary Heart of the Country Kingfisher Productions (Carlton TV) Lighting cameraman 2001 Documentary RES-TV Channel-5 (Stockholm/Sweden) Location manager 2001 TV News & Current Affairs Teletypos SA (Mega channel) Lighting cameraman - free lance 2001 Editorial Congress Organizer& Policy Consultant Hellenic Audio-visual Institute Events' Producer & Consultant 2000 Editorial EU Funding Applications' Evaluator Media Desk Hellas EU Funding Consultant 1999 Editorial Funding Application writer European Children's Television Center EU Funding Consultant 1999 Editorial Odysseia Project Computer Technology Institute Info-Desk Manager 1999 TV News & Current Affairs Teletypos SA (Mega Channel) Lighting Cameraman- staff 1992 Commercials Various commercials, videoclips & feature films Various Steadicam operator 1990 Corporate Combat Pilots' training films Hellenic Air-Force Producer - Cameraman-editor 1985
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