Konstantinos Spiropoulos
Joined: 14/09/2018
Entrepreneur
I am a teacher in filmmaking documentaries with a 30 years experience in television productions. I was maging director or programme director in the mayor TV stations in Greece both in private and public sector. I have been board member of the History Producers World Conference and also of the History Makers World Congress. I am head of the Jury in the les Ecrans de Chine Film Festival, member of European Documentary Network (EDN), founder and director of the AegeanDocs Int. Film Festival and director of the History Doc.
As director of the Educational Institute for Documentaries History Doc (www.storydoc.gr) i has  organized  for 10 years  a lot of professional training  workshops for filmmakers in the South Eastern Europe and in the Middle East.  
In Palestine  In cooperation with the An Qatan Foundation, the French Institute and the Goethe Institute we launched in 2009 and we supported till 2014 the Ramallah Docs initiative  which offered to young Palestinian Filmmakers the opportunity to develop their documentaries under the tutoring of distinguished  European trainers and to attract international funds for coproduction. Outcomes of this initiative were documentaries such the following:  Five  Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. Gaza Calling by Nahed Awwad, The Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar , Off Frame AKA Revolution by Mohanad Yaqubi, Playground, Wesam Mousa, Coffee for All Nations by Wafa Jamil  .  
From 2013 till now i dedicated all my efforts cacting  as cordinator in two cross borders activities  with the support of Anna Lindh Foundation with the aim to support the social inclusion of migrants and refugees and to promote the intercaltural dialogue: 
1. Home New Home (www.homenewhome.gr) (2015-2018) . Training and production workshops of short documentaries created by refugees and  migrants. Locations: Athens and Lesvos (Greece), Izmir (Turkey), Amman (Jordan), Tyre (Lebanon), Ramallah-Gaza (Palestine)  . Partners Arab Women Media Center, Amman Jordan (AWMC)    Young Palestinian Filmmakers Society, Palestine, ,  Istanbouli Theater -Tyro Association for Artists, Lebanon , Yasar University Izmir-Turkey History Doc,Athens. 
2. The Life of the Others (www.eurodocvision.gr) . Workshops for production documentaries created by migrants artists  in 5 countries (Algeria, Morocco, Palestine. Partners  
Young Palestinian Filmmakers Society, Palestine, Association House of Culture and Art (A.M.C.A), Morocco. Institution of Artists supported by Camra Coopérative Culturelle, Algeria,  Aditus Foundation, Malta. 
Education :   Diploma in Economics 
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