Menelaos Karamaghiolis

Menelaos Karamaghiolis is a filmmaker who works in Athens producing feature films, documentaries, video art and radio-movies that transcend frontiers and stereotypes, as well as for real-life neglected heroes and serve as an essential tool for dialogue and social change. His films have been screened globally and won many awards like the feature documentary ROM, 1989, that was considered "a turning point for Greek documentary films" and "a masterpiece that must become a classic of the history of cinema" and fiction films as BLACK OUT (p.s. RED OUT), 1998 considered as “the first post-modern Greek film” and J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant, 2012, participated in 48 international festivals (including TIFF Toronto International Film Festival) and won 11 awards. The interactive documentary series MEETING WITH REMARKABLE PEOPLE which he is directing and producing has been characterized by the press as “the doc-series of the year for 2012” and many of those documentaries have been screened in major festivals around the world. His video art works have been shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens and at the Venice Biennale and the Geneva Contemporary Art Center (2020, mini retrospective).