About

Laika Productions //GR//

Laika Productions is an independent film, television and music production company based in Athens, Greece.

Cinema

Laika Productions founded in 2018 by director-producer Marina Danezi and producer Tasos Koronakis. The company has a strong focus on documentaries and short and feature fiction films that explore human rights and social issues. With a commitment to independent, socially conscious storytelling, Laika Productions has established itself as a dynamic force in the Greek filmmaking landscape.

TV

Its productions for television include the emblematic TV series of documentaries “The Haunts: Stories of Vulgar Civilisation”, which completed 6 seasons of episodes. The documentary series, “Kleinon Asty – Urban stories”, is now being rebroadcast by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) is in its 4th season. The 2nd season of the series “2004 Seconds”, produced by Laika Productions, was shown by Cosmote TV.

MUSIC

As part of its music-related activities, Laika Productions has successfully staged concerts for domestic and international bands, festivals and cultural events for more than 15 years on Athens’ entertainment scene and is indelibly linked to the Gagarin 205 live music venue.

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Laika Productions has also produced numerous projects, video clips, and social messages for clients such as Amnesty International, Onassis Stegi and the Onassis Foundation, Eteron Institute for Research and Social Change, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, and others.

marina Danezi

Director / Producer

Marina Danezi was born in 1982 in Athens. She studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and theatre at the “Delos” school of Dimitra Hatoupis. She worked as an actor in theatre and cinema.

Marina Danezi was born in Athens in 1982. She completed studies in mathematics and theater. In 2008, she turned to directing. Her work revolves around social and cultural issues, touching upon minorities and subcultures, while a significant part of her output explores the urban fabric and contemporary human geography.

 

She has directed four short and one feature-length documentaries for cinema, which have participated in numerous festivals, while in recent years most of her directing work has been devoted to the documentary series “Ta Stekia: Istories Agoraiou Politismou” (six cycles of episodes) and “Kleinon Asty: Istories tis Polis” (three cycles of episodes) shown by ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) as well as “2004 seconds” and “433”, two football series shown by Cosmote TV. She has also directed many video clips and undertaken production duties for several short and feature-length fiction films and documentaries.

Tasos Koronakis

Producer / Production Director

Tasos Koronakis was born in September 1975 and grew up in Athens and Piraeus.
He started his studies at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Patras but eventually became more interested in public affairs and politics.

In the context of his political career, he was a member of the Syriza political secretariat for almost 10 years, responsible for social movements and organizational affairs, communications officer and coordinator of a series of election campaigns. He served for a few months as Secretary of the Central Committee of Syriza, resigned in July 2015 and left the party. After that, he took an active role in the Social Economy in the field of development, communication, marketing and advertising. He also has extensive experience in the production of large-scale events, conferences, cultural events, exhibitions, concerts and festivals.

For the last 6 years he has been working as a production manager at Laika Productions having completed more than 70 episodes of documentaries in the series “The Haunts” (The Stekia) and “Kleinon Asty – Urban Stories” which were broadcasted on state television (ERT). He has also taken part in dozens of the company’s projects as a production manager.
Finally, he has served as production manager on 3 short films, one of which he co-produced, and on 2 documentaries, one short and one feature film in the post-production phase, and was executive producer on a short documentary.
He feels that this is the best job of his life.

Nina Efstathiadou

Junior Producer / Script Supervisor

Nina Efstathiadou was born in 1998 in Athens. She studied Communication and Mass Media at National Kapodistrian University of Athens. Though she likes social media, her heart belongs to filmmaking.

Nina is a graduate of the Department of Communication and Mass Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Although she has a background in social media and journalism, during her internship at Laika Productions, she discovered the fascinating world of cinema and film behind the cameras.

Since then, she has been involved in production, organization, managment and coordination at the office, while on set she has gained experience as a production assistant, set design assistant, and, more recently, primarily as a script supervisor.

With the ambition of becoming a film editor in the future, she sees script supervision as the perfect way to combine her love for the editing process with being on set.