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
Writing
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.
Directing
Four award-winning short films, 16 theatre productions, and over 90 commercial videos across Canada, the UK, Germany, Belarus, Croatia, Albania, Greece, and India, reaching hundreds of millions of viewers.
Creative Media Specialist
& Event Organizer
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.
A unique International Film Festival, featuring the prestigious Film Olympiad medals and a thrilling competition format with Group and Knockout stages. As the first and only film festival in the world to publish the ratings of all entries, it champions transparency while offering valuable feedback and networking opportunities to every filmmaker. To date, the it has featured over 800 entries from 84 countries, including Oscar nominated films.
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.
Ερωτικό Μανιφέστο
The World Will End in One Hour... Unless We Fall in Love.
This interactive performance blends the stirring words of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Frida Kahlo, Konstantinos Kavafis, Katerina Gogou & more, creating a tapestry of passion, profoundness, hope.
Performances resume Autumn 2024, starring Ioanna Mitsiali & Ioannis Makro.
Directed & adapted by Ioannis Makro.
Niki
A short film by Ioannis Makro.
Awarded as Best Foreign Short Film in the Kokaai Film Festival, in India.
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.
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.
Pulverized - Όλα Σκόνη
A bilingual theatre performance in Romanian and Greek, featuring Ioannis Makro.
Directed by Monica Savulescu Voudouri and written by Alexandra Badea, a French Academy Award recipient. Produced by "Thalia Diapora" and the "Association of Romanian Artists in Greece".
Performances will resume this autumn in Athens.
