* Nominated for 1993 Genie Award-Best Live Action Short Film

COMMERCIALS
Kokanee, Molson, Vincor Winery, Credit Union, McDonalds, GM, Mazda, Prestone, Ram Tobacco, CKVU, Marks Work Wear

EVENTS
Beach Blanket Film Festival
1994-99 Producer
Canadian Film Festival featuring movies on the beach with 35mm films projected onto a giant screen floating on Lake Okanagan.

Theo's at 10,000 Feet
1993-98 Producer
Fund-raiser for the Okanagan Similkameen Neurological Society 7 Course Fine Dinning for 4 guests helicoptered onto Mt. Hawthorn overlooking the Okanagan Valley. Four-piece string ensemble provides music.

An Evening of Short Films
1993 Producer
Canadian Short film Festival sponsored by the National Screen Institute.

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Independent director/producer Nikos Theodosakis has directed or produced five short films, including THE DATE, which was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 1993 Genie Awards. THE DATE has received a great response and been sold to the CBC, Channel 4 England and European television stations. The University of Alberta's Faculty of Family Studies is currently using THE DATE in lectures on teen - parent relationships.

Nikos' initial experience in feature film took place in the form of a well rounded apprentice position working with Sandy Wilson in casting, as a location scout, editing assistant, director's assistant, and unit manager on 1984's MY AMERICAN COUSIN.

Around the same time Nikos worked on THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR as 3rd Assistant Director. He continued to gain experience in the Vancouver film industry working on Canadian and American features, television series, commercials and documentaries working as assistant director, location scout and manager, camera assistant, in casting, production and editing.

Concurrently, he shot two short films as director: April And her Telephone (Doug McKay D.O.P.) and Conversation (Trig Singer D.O.P.). In 1988 Nikos apprenticed with Steve DeNure on the Alliance production of Sandy Wilson's American Boyfriend. As assistant producer, it allowed training with both producer and director functions through hands on experience from script development, budgeting, scheduling, preproduction, shooting and postproduction.

In 1998, Nikos was Associate Producer and Apprentice Director with Mort Ransen on his feature film SHEGALLA starring Lynn Redgrave and Tygh Runyan. The apprenticeship was learning about storytelling. From script to sound mix. Emphasis was on casting, working with actors, planning the blocking and camera movement to engage the audience, deciding when and how to give the audience they may or may not want at that moment in the story. "Story telling should be called story-withholding."

Nikos' extremely varied background has been an asset in coordinating the different projects in which he is involved. Nikos produces a waterfront film festival in Penticton called the Beach Blanket Film Festival, which provides local audiences with the opportunity to view Canadian Films. Nikos involvement with his family's Greek restaurant led to his very first film, YIANNI SCHWARTZ, PORTRAIT OF A GREEK WAITER, and continues to inspire creativity. He tries to play the Greek instruments the lyra and bouzouki, exhibit his photographs and raises his two daughters with his wife Linda.

His current project is Breaking Plates, an investigative feature documentary journey into Greek culture that all begins with the question "Why do Greeks break plates?"