Panagiotis Iosifelis

Biography

Panagiotis Iosifelis is screenwriter and Assistant Professor of Screenplay, Department of Cinema, School of Fine Arts, A.U.Th. He studied History at the Philosophical School of Ioannina and Journalism. He has written the scripts for 10 (ten) short films – Tempest, Isabelle, Polyneices, Cheapdays, Protection, thecut, Jailhouserock, Single series Pearls, Mines, XXX Live - and 5 (five) feature films – Nobody, Loveintheend, Traveling with Paok (in collaboration with S. Tziolis), Livebetter, Revolution of Mourning (the last two have been approved in the Neo Vlemma program and are in the preproduction phase), TV series – 10th Commandment, Cinemania, I Saw You, Wild Children, 3rd Law and documentary – Macedonia and Thrace: People and History, Thessaloniki EXPO 2008. Also for the internet (within the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) program and from National Resources (ESPA 2007-2013), Digital Greece – Operational program "Digital Convergence") the series of 50 short animation episodes Journey to knowledge. Among the awards he has received for the films whose scripts he wrote are indicatively: Clio Awards, Branded Content Entertainment, Gold Award, New York, 2013, CannesLionsFestival, BrandedContentEntertainment,, SilverAward, Cannes, 2013 (for the film Love in the end ), 51st Thessaloniki Festival, Audience Award, Thessaloniki, 2010 (for the film Nobody), 1st Greek Film Festival, 1st Prize for Short Fiction Film, Los Angeles, 2007 (for the short film Mines), Drama Festival, 1st Prize for Film Fiction-Jameson Award, Drama, 2005 (for the short film Protection) as well as three P.E.K.K (Panhellenic Union of Film Critics) awards for the short films Cheap dayz, Protection, Single series of pearls. In addition to the Film Department, he has taught screenwriting at the Institute of Education (IN.EP) of the National Center for Public Administration and Self-Government (EKDDA), at the Open University of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, at IEK Akmi and in the Creative Writing Master's Program of the Pedagogical Department of the University of Western Macedonia, where he works as a supervisor of master's theses in screenwriting. He has been a script editor at the Writing Program of the Hellenic Film Center, while in 2010 he was a member of the jury of the Balkan Fund at the Thessaloniki Festival. He has published a collection of short stories entitled Wild Children and other stories (Kapani editions, 2013), a series of short stories entitled Scoupidia (Odos Panos, 2003), he has written two children's fairy tales The triangle that became a fairy tale and The fairy tale that is not a crowd articles. Member of the Union of Screenwriters of Greece (ESE).