Productions — Mindspark+

A Mindspark+ director briefing a performer during a street shoot — Audiovisual productionWhat we shoot goes on air.

Documentaries, television series, spots and podcasts. Stories of people and places that no one else has told.

Script, cinematography, editing, sound and delivery from one team — from the first meeting to a file that is ready to broadcast.

Films & spots

The Footprint

Sustainable mobility campaign for the Directorate-General for Transport, Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

Every choice leaves a footprint. A film about public transport and smart mobility, and about cities becoming more human, safer and more sustainable.

Direction, cinematography, editing: Thanos Tsigkas
Script: Leonidas Skerletopoulos, Thanos Tsigkas
Production management: Leonidas Skerletopoulos
Drone pilot: Dimitris Alexoudis
Additional drone footage: Apostolos Skamnos
Voice actor: Lina Petrianou
Sound engineering, mixing: Savvas Iosifidis

The Future Starts Here

Institutional film on the NSRF (ESPA) 2021–2027 programme, for the Intermediate Managing Authority of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

A cinematic approach to communicating EU-funded projects and their real impact on everyday life: projects not as investments, but as interventions that connect people with the place they live in. From infrastructure and health to culture, the environment and social care.

Every project is a bridge: from yesterday to tomorrow, from I to we. Development is not only about works — it is about the lives that change and the future already being built here.

Reels & social campaigns

Xanthi: a city you live, not just visit

Cinematic reels campaign for the Directorate-General for Tourism, Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

The challenge was to avoid the clichés of the tourism video and to render the urban environment as it is. Xanthi is not a destination you look at, but a city you experience through your senses.

Each video follows a different facet of the city through the eyes of one character, tying together food, the visitor experience and culture. The city is not a backdrop: it is a living organism revealed through people, moments and details.

The reels are released gradually. A selection of those already out:

Culture Rhythm of the City A visual narrative that starts in the quiet of an early morning alley and ends in the music and energy of the city. Watch on Instagram

City Breaks The Forest Next Door The direct relationship between city life and nature: the peri-urban forest right next to town, as a competitive advantage. Watch on Instagram

City Breaks Nestos The Nestos river as the city’s “outdoor room”, where urban fatigue turns into natural energy. Watch on Instagram

City BreaksAn escape from the city, inside the cityThe idea of escape is redefined: not leaving the urban fabric behind, but a lived change of pace inside the city itself.

Direction, director of photography: Thanos Tsigkas
Editing: Thanos Tsigkas
B-roll editing: Leonidas Ioannidis
Script: Leonidas Skerletopoulos, Thanos Tsigkas
Production management: Leonidas Skerletopoulos
Drone pilots: Leonidas Ioannidis
Voice actor: Lina Petrianou
Sound design: Vangelis Georgamtzis

Event coverage A vision made real Watch on Instagram

Alexander Innovation Zone

Award coverage in Paris

Alexander Innovation Zone was named Startup Ecosystem Star 2024 at the International Chamber of Commerce SES Awards. We covered the ceremony in Paris and turned it into a reel for their channels.

Papageorgiou Hospital

Promotional reel for a hospital project

Produced with AI tools, to communicate a hospital project in vertical format.

Television series

Regional Women Innovators

Television series for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

A series devoted to women in the Greek regions who turn vision, persistence and limited resources into business and social value.

It follows women who choose to build and innovate outside the large urban centres, telling their personal stories, the obstacles they face and what they give back to their local communities.

All episodes on YouTube

Broadcast by

A station in Western Macedonia

Women in Tech Business

Television series for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

A series made to challenge the stereotype of male dominance in technology. Through personal interviews it presents women in leadership and management roles at leading companies, founders and professionals who actively shape the tech ecosystem.

The series explores their paths, motivations, challenges, fears and the opportunities that shaped them. Filming was completed in July 2022.

Broadcast by

Documentaries

YCS: The Journey So Far

Documentary for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, marking 20 years of the Young Cell Scheme

YCS is one of the most significant EU-funded human capital development programmes in Kosovo. Through interviews with senior government officials, alumni and institutional partners, the documentary traces its course and its impact from 2004 to today.

More than 400 young professionals gained access to high-level studies in EU member states, many of them returning to take up key positions in Kosovo’s public institutions. The production combines personal testimony, archival footage and institutional interviews.

Commissioned by

Road Safety: On the Front Line

Two-part documentary for the Directorate-General for Transport, Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, as part of Road Safety Year 2024

Produced by the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Transport and Communications.

It presents the actions, challenges and initiatives for safer roads through real stories and the people who stand every day on the front line of prevention, protection and public information.

Music video & creative production

On selected creative productions Mindspark+ supports teams and creators with technical support, professional equipment, mentors and specialist collaborators, from development through to delivery of the content.

Podcast

Silenced Voices

Hate Speech Against Journalists — the podcast

A series on the hate speech, harassment and attacks journalists face in the course of their work.

Each episode presents research findings from a different country and examines the impact of hate speech both on the safety and wellbeing of journalists and on press freedom and democracy itself.

The research was carried out by academic and media institutions including the Peace Journalism Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Novi Sad, Hasan Prishtina University, BLINK 42-21 and BlueLink, with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom — Greece & Cyprus.

Research

Thodoris Spiliotis — From Manhattan to Mount Athos

There are many kinds of journeys in a person’s life. The ones that leave the deepest mark are often the inward ones.

In this conversation with Thodoris Spiliotis we follow one man’s path from professional success and recognition towards spirituality, simplicity and finally monastic life.

Handstands, Trash Situations and Deformed Raccoons

A looser podcast production with three international volunteers of the European project Bridges of Solidarity, run in Alexandroupoli by Mindspark+.

In an informal conversation they share what volunteering, living across cultures and everyday life on the project were actually like.

Studio & crew

Podcast recording with three speakers and microphones in the Mindspark+ studio

Sound-treated booth with microphone and headphones

Inside the sound-treated recording booth

We record and shoot in our own space

A sound-treated booth for voice-over and narration, a podcast studio with multi-camera capture, and a crew equally at home on location, in offices and inside public buildings.