Passion, Quality, Creativity
Ioannis
Makro
Creating emotions is my life.
Quality storytelling opens vast roads to communicate our visions and missions, to large audiences worldwide.
This journey is never ending. Let's create the revolutionized world we desire to see.
PASSION - QUALITY - CREATIVITY
Creating emotions is my life.
Quality storytelling opens vast roads to communicate our visions and missions to large audiences worldwide.
This journey is never ending. Let's create the revolutionized world we desire to see.
Professional Services
Original screenplays for films and commercials, theatre adaptations, and literature translations. Additionally, experienced as a script doctor, press officer, and ghostwriter, with a background in creative media, news outlets, and political campaigns.
Four award-winning short films with 40 nominations & 18 awards, 16 theatre productions, and over 100 commercial videos across Canada, the UK, Germany, Hungary, Belarus, Croatia, Albania, Greece, and India, reaching hundreds of millions of viewers.
Founder and Director of the Film Olympiad International Film Festival.
With extensive experience as a video producer, cinematographer, editor, graphic designer, content creator, event organizer, and marketing strategist.
Current Main Projects
Film Olympiad
The Olympiad for Filmmakers.
Founder & Chairman of a unique International Film Festival, featuring the prestigious Film Olympiad medals and an unprecedented, thrilling competition format. It is the first and only film festival in the world to publish the ratings of all entries, championing transparency while offering valuable feedback and networking opportunities to every filmmaker.
To date, Film Olympiad has featured over 1.000 entries from 104 countries,
including Oscar nominated films and Hollywood star actors, such as Kevin Bacon, Coleman Domingo, Lily Gladstone.
Ερωτικό Μανιφέστο
The World Will End in One Hour... Unless We Fall in Love.
This interactive performance blends the stirring words of William Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda, Frida Kahlo,
K.P. Kavafis, Katerina Gogou & more, creating a tapestry of passion, profoundness, humour and hope.
Directed & adapted by: Ioannis Makro.
Starring: Ioanna Mitsiali & Ioannis Makro.
2024 - 2025 season: Theatro Fournos
Niki
A short film by Ioannis Makro.
Awarded for Best Foreign Short Film at the Kokaai Film Festival, in India,
Awarded for Best Creative Screenplay at the Golden Bridge Istanbul, in Turkey.
Awarded for Best Director and Best Music at the Top Indie Awards, in Japan.
Niki (Victory) is a film envisioning to approach the Alzheimer's disease under a poetic light of confidence. Starring Eleni Gerasimidou & Angeliki Xenou, alongside a cast of over 30 actors and dancers.
Ξέρεις Ωραία να Σκοτώνεις
The debut book by Ioannis Makro. Published by Kyverti Books.
"You Know Beautifully to Kill", is a poetic narration in three acts— a phrase that could be uttered by anyone. It is the first book in Greece to be fully recorded and seamlessly integrated with QR codes.
Ward No. 6
A short film directed by Konstantina Ntinapogia & Ioannis Makro.
Inspired by Anton Chekhov's Ward No. 6, this experimental video dance adaptation features Konstantina Ntinapogia as dancer & choreographer, and Dimosthenis Fillipas narrating the role of Dr. Andrei Eifimich.
