Sophokles Tasioulis

Sophokles Tasioulis is an international film producer based in Berlin Germany. He studied aerospace engineering at Berlin's Technical University (TU Berlin) & Media Design and Media Art at the BILDO Academy Berlin. After completing his studies, he worked for various broadcasters (including Arte, BBC, Canal Plus, ZDF) and founded THESA Film und Fernsehproduktion in 1991. In 1998 he founded Hope & Glory Film Productions where he was a managing partner until the year 2001. From 2001 he has been in charge of developing, financing and producing projects with German and international co-production partners as a board member at Greenlight Media's Production Department. In the year 2005 he established his own production company Sophisticated Films. In 2011 he was recruited to a subsidiary of the Red Bull Media House, Terra Mater Factual Studios where he served as the Head of Cinema, until joining the Red Bull Media House (RBMH) as its Global Head of Cinema in 2012. At RBMH Sophokles oversaw the global cinema business of Red Bull, being responsible for development and production as well as international distribution of all the Red Bull Media House titles. From the start of 2014 Sophokles refocused his entire activities exclusively to his own production company and was one of the main producers on Terrence Malick's life long project project Voyage of Time, securing international partners such as IMAX and Wild Bunch. Voyage of Time premiered in competition at the Venice International Film Festival 2016. In his career, he produced and co-produced a number of noted documentaries, including Cheerleader Stories (2001), Deep Blue (2004) and Earth (2007), as well as features as Shoes Of America (2000), The Great Match (2006) and the animation feature Quest for a Heart (2007) and Among Wolves (2010). His projects have been released by many major distributors such as Disney, MIRAMAX, Lionsgate, Gaumont, GAGA, Studio Canal and many others around the world. Sophokles has produced 2 of the top ten grossing theatrical documentaries of all times and is an international expert for big, event type theatrical documentaries. Since late 2016 Sophokles has been exploring the new possibilities of blockchain technology for the entertainment industry. He is one of the few experts in this new emerging technology (entertainment industry & blockchain) and often called upon to consult and speak about it. Sophokles firmly believes that the opportunities provided by distributed ledger technology and the proliferation of the "internet of value" have the potential to disrupt the industry as a whole. In 2018 Sophokles joined Academy Award winner Luc Jacquet in a newly set up company - "Icebreaker Entertainment Studios" based in Monaco. Icebreaker will produce a number of nature themed projects in the cinema, TV and immersive exhibition space. Using the new possibilities of blockchain powered token economy it will fully finance its own productions. Next to his activities at Sophisticated and Icebreaker, Sophokles is currently also developing a movie financing platform in the blockchain space.