George Kordellas

George Kordellas was born in Kozani, Macedonia/Greece on December 23rd, 1959.
He works in the film industry and television, professionaly, since 1981.

He worked as assistant director for 10 years and collaborated with famous greek directors (Pavlos Tassios, Nikos Vergitsis, Apostolos Doxiadis, Costas Ferris, George Panousopoulos, Andreas Thomopoulos, Panos Glykofrydis, etc)

He has directed famous tv series in greek television:
• «Anastasia» (MEGA, 1993-94)
• «Absent» (MEGA, 1995-96)
• «Tzivaeri» (MEGA, 1997-98)
• «Seagull’s Fluttering» (ET1, 1998-99)
• «Vendetta» (MEGA, 1999-00)
• «Trojan Horse» (ANT1, 2000-01)
• «Dancing in the Silence» (ALPHA, 2002-03)
• «Secrets and Mistakes» (ALPHA, 2003-04)

6 episodes of the fiction series:
• «Quicksand» (ALPHA, 2005)
10 episodes of the fiction series:
• «Loafing and Camouflage» (NET, 2006-2007)

he has also directed single episodes for tv series:
• «Anatomy of a Murder/2» (ANT1, 1994)
• «Extreme Stories» (ANT1, 1994-95)
• «A night like tonight» (ANT1, 1996)
• «Mystery Stories» (ANT1, 2007)
• «Stories from the Opposite Side» (ANT1, 2007-2008)

the tv feature: «Ariadne» (STAR CHANNEL, 2002)

the music tv series: “Rock Nights” (ET1, 1991)
episodes in the archaeology documentary series:
“History of Macedonia and Thrace” (ET3, 1996)

documentaries of the tv series: “The Antennas of Our Time” :
• Daniel Chavarría, Cuba (ET1, 2010)
• César Aira, Argentina (ET1, 2010)
• Leonardo Padura, Cuba (ET1, 2010)
• Maurice Attia, France (NET, 2011)
• Murathan Mungan, Turkey (NET, 2011)
• Henning Mankell, Sweden (NET, 2011)
• Umberto Eco, Italy (ET1, 2012)
• Irvin Yalom, USA (ET1, 2012)
• Kader Abdolah, Holland (ET1, 2012)
• Daniel Mendelsohn, USA (ET1, 2012)
• Tomas Tranströmer, Sweden (ET1, 2013)

the tv documentary (in 2 episodes):
“Life and work of the composer Mimis Plessas” (NET, 2007)

a documentary for tv (episode of a series):
“Athens Races-India” (NET/2011)

theater:
“A Hatful of Rain”/Michael V. Gazzo, Youth Scene of National Theatre of Greece (Kotopouli Scene-Rex Theatre, 2013)

music theater:
• «The Human Voice-D.Papadimitriou/F.Darra»-Gialino Music Theater, 2010 (direction)
• «Aesop's Fables-D.Papadimitriou»-Onassis Cultural Centre, 2013 (lyrics-play-direction)
• «Katerina Gogou-The Mind Is The Target»-Rythmos Stage, 2013 (direction)
• «Nikolas Asimos-We Are Terrorists»-Arhitektoniki Live, 2013 (direction)

video-clips (Dimitris Mitropanos, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Tania Tsanaklidou, Anna Vissi, Eleni Dimou, Nikos Ziogalas, etc)
advertisements (Cosmote, etc)

He teached in the Cinematography Seminars of New Smyrna Municipality (1991-92) and supervised the practice of the students in 16 mm filmmaking


as a lyricist he has collaborated with the composers:
Dimitris Papadimitriou, Notis Mavroudis, Nikos Mamangakis, Costis Zevgadellis, Kostas Haritatos, Marios Strofalis, Vangelis Fampas, Makis Seviloglou, Costas Athyrides, Eva Loukatou, Muammer Ketencoğlu, and more
and with the singers:
Dimitris Mitropanos, Haris Alexiou, Pantelis Thalassinos, Tania Tsanaklidou, Vassilis Karras, Eleni Tsaligopoulou, Lizeta Kalimeri, Dionyssis Tsaknis, Martha Fritzila, Giota Negka, Fotini Darra, Dimitris Zervoudakis, Gerasimos Andreatos, Vassilis Lekkas, Apostolos Rizos, Dimitris Kontogiannis, Pitsa Papadopoulou, Deniz Övünç, and more
he also wrote the lyrics based on Sophocle’s Antigone “parodos” and “stasima” parts of the play for the «Antigone», Youth Scene of the National Theatre of North Greece (based in Thessaloniki) directed by T.Rantzos (2009)


as a photographer, εξέθεσε, στα πλαίσια του Φεστιβάλ Πολυπολιτισμικών Διαλόγων ΙΚΑΡΟΣ, σειρά φωτογραφιών του στον Άγιο Κήρυκο Ικαρίας (Έκθεση Φωτογραφίας με τίτλο: «CUBA-HAVANA», 2010)


as a produser, he produced the cd:
«Up And Down Patission Street-songs based on Katerina Gogou’s poems».
by Odos Panos Editions


his novel «SAO», publised in March 2014
by Gavrielides Editions