Producer- Actor
Andreas is the founder of AV Moviesworld, the company behind the production of the Waiting Room. He is the producer of the movie and also plays one of the main roles. He has worked as an actor in TV Series, commercials and theatrical plays. He was made popular to the wider public after his performance in the role of Manolios in the TV Series Brousko. He studied acting at Theodosiadis Acting School in Athens.
Director- Writer
Alexander has worked in the film and commercials industry going through different crew positions as a director, cinematographer, production manager and as an editor in Los Angeles, New York, Dubai, London, Athens and Nicosia. He has produced and directed feature films, TV Series, several shorts, music videos and commercials.
While he was in Los Angeles he worked as a production assistant in Hollywood Production Companies at Lawrence Bender Productions and Kadokawa Picures. In Dubai he worked in the area of producing commercials at Joy Films.
His short film “10 Minutes” got special mention in the Greek competition sector at Thessaloniki Film Festival (2008) while his first feature, an action drama movie “The Final Payoff” won the Silver Remi Award at Worldfest Houston, two Audience Awards (Cyprus International Film Festival and at the Peloponesian International Film Festival) and was distributed by Filmboy Pictures and Audiovisual in Greece.
Additionally he has worked in the media broadcast sector as a director and editor collaborating with various TV Channels in Greece and Cyprus (Greek National News Television ERT, ANT1, SKAI TV, Star Channel, Sigma Live TV), as a photographer and as a journalist at various newspapers and magazines for topics related to cinema.
He has a BA from the American College of Greece (Deree College), a certificate in Film Producing from UCLA, a certificate in Film and Television Studies from New York College and a certificate in Film Directing from Iek Akmi (Vocational Training).
“The Waiting Room” is his second feature film.
Scriptwriter-Editor-Actor
Leonidas Kossis is a native of Cyprus, who has been living in Greece since 2001. A U.C. Berkeley Engineering graduate, Leonidas started out in the publishing industry in 1996 and later went on to embrace the digital media for a number of years as a developer and consultant before taking a turn to philosophy, the healing arts and writing in 2003. Since then, he has co-authored and published a self-help pocketbook and has written short stories, articles and several television scripts. During the same period, he has acted in two short films by Agis Paikos and has had a major role in a popular Cypriot tv series.
The “Waiting Room”, developed from an original idea by Alexandros Leontaritis, is his first attempt at writing a feature film script.
Leonidas has been an active volunteer for an international charity education organisation since 2009. In-between projects, he records his own music - his first album having been released by Ammos Music (Greece) in 2010.
Cinematographer
He is an Irish-Cypriot and was born in Akrotiri, Cyprus in 1977. Following his studies in the field of Cinematography in the UK and Spain, he began his freelance career on board Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior tasked to document the environmental impact of the 2006 Lebanon-Israel conflict. The following years brought a globetrotting collaboration with Greenpeace, bearing witness to environmental crimes and given the opportunity to shine a global spotlight on climate injustice.
Filming on board ships, frequently bouncing on inflatables at high seas and hanging out of helicopters over pristine Arctic glaciers, he has travelled with the organisation on a number of assignments, from Quit Coal campaigns across the European continent to Fukushima following the 2011 nuclear disaster. For the past eight years he had the opportunity to document Greenpeace’s science work on climate change in the Arctic and during this time he has also covered a number of direct actions against major oil companies drilling in Arctic waters in the organisation’s effort to declare the Arctic as a global sanctuary.
His work also spans between fiction films and documentaries produced in Europe and North Africa with subjects ranging from human rights, to peace and conflict, education and culture. Some of his work has also been featured on CNN, BBC, The Guardian online and other international media outlets. His portfolio also includes numerous commercials, music and corporate videos.
His documentary Here at Home won the Kodak/Nahemi prize for Cinematography at the 11th International Short Film Festival in Bristol-UK, received awards for Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 3rd Festival of Short Films & Documentaries, Cyprus and was granted the award for Creative Documentary at the 4th Strange Screen Festival, Greece. In 2012 his short documentary Poets in No Man’s Land won Best Video-Poetry Award at the 7th Cyprus International Film Festival. He also holds the Billy Williams cinematography scholarship from the British Society of Cinematographers having been chosen from a range of candidates by the Oscar-awarded Cinematographer Billy Williams OBE, BSC.
He is fluent in English, Greek and Spanish.
Special and Visual effects supervisor- Compositor
Fedias was born and raised in Cyprus. He studied BA and MA in the fields of Animation and Visual Effects at the University of the West of England in Bristol (UWE) where he graduated first of his class. He is the founder of Digireal Studios, an animation and Visual Effects company in Cyprus, that has one main focus of providing state of the art services for clients’ projects and productions in global scale with partners in Cyprus, Greece, UK and India. Added to this, the last 7 years his visions has also been to train students and professionals in the fields of 3D Animation and Visual Effects and develop specialized fast paced training programs that will train any individual to an advanced professional as personnel for Digireal Studios and others.
Sound Mixer and Editor-Foley Artist-Sound Design
Nikos Michalodimitrakis is the owner of MD Recording Studios, a modern recording complex located in the heart of Athens which offers audio and visual services of the highest quality. Has managed the sound design, mixing and mastering of films, commercials, theatrical plays and songs. He is a two-time winner of the Ermis Award in the sound category.
Music Composer
Dom Sigalas is an in-demand Music Producer, multi-instrumentalist and Composer for Film, TV and video games. Based in London, he has written music for films, TV & radio commercials, documentaries, musicals, video games and hundreds of tracks of library music. He also works as a sound designer for Award-Winning industry leading hardware and software companies such as Yamaha and Steinberg and has created original sounds for leading sample library developers such as 8Dio, Souniccouture as well as several Yamaha synthesizers. He is the Senior Music Producer for Sunlightsquare Records (London) and also the Senior Mixing and Mastering Engineer for the highly acclaimed Mixing and Mastering service, Doctormix.com. Dom’s credits include Universal Music, StudioCanal, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, National Geographic and much more.
Assistant Director
Andreas Sheittanis has studied Studied Film Production & Cinematography at Bournemouth University. He has directed several short films and music videos. He has won the Best Veteran’s Short Film, Best Directions and Best Cinematography awards at the Cyprus International Film Festival for his short film “The Storyteller”.
Online Marketing Material-New Content Creation
Evangelos discovered his passion with technology in 1987 when he got his hands on a Commodore Amiga 500, and from that point on he expanded his knowledge into Digital Arts.
It was in 1989 when he first watched Star Wars, that he developed his passion for Motion Pictures and Television. After completing his studies and military service, he left for the United States to pursue his dream in Film Entertainment while utilizing his strong technical background.
During his career his has been involved in multiple Entertainment and Video Games projects. He is currently working in multiple community digital projects and seeking new and promising film projects with team members that are driven by passion. He joined our production team for our online marketing material (web trailer editing) and new content creation (web posters, theatrical posters).
A.V.MOVIES WORLD presents the "WAITING ROOM"