George Leontakianakos

Dr. George Leontakianakos is a teacher of natural sciences at the 4th Junior High School of Halandri, Athens. He is 38 years old and has studied Geology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has also completed postgraduate and doctoral studies (Ph.D.) at the Department of Chemical Engineering of National Technical University of Athens, however, his great love is cinema. Now he is studying "Film Studies" at New York College in Athens, Greece. When he was a child he used to help his father who owned a video club. His father's video club was the first video club in Halandri. After a series of seminars on writing and art design, he made his first film named "THEFT" in which there starred the students of the school he teaches at. "Theft" became Viral on YouTube in Greece with 750.000 views. The film received the third special distinction for its social message at the 9th ARTFOOLS Film Festival in Larissa, Greece. After this film, he enrolled at New York College and began Film Studies. This year, the school that he works for organized and carried out a trip to Cyprus with a group of pupils in order to make a documentary, named "MONUMENTS AND SIGNS". This documentary was about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.