I was born in Athens, Greece in 1969. I thought I could become an economist but only managed to obtain my degree; that is because I was infected too soon with journalism virus.
While studying economics I also studied cinematography at the Hellenic Cinema & Television School Stavrakos (CILECT) and later journalism at the Panteion University of Athens. I did postgraduate studies in editing processes and digital editions in UOC (Barcelona, Spain) and in political communication in NKUA (Athens Greece).

I worked as a newspaper journalist since 1998 till 2015; for a short while in Ethnos and Exousia dailies and from 1999 until 2015 in the well-known Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typos as a global news editor. In the meantime I collaborated - and still collaborating - with magazines, TV and radio stations and agencies in Greece and abroad. I worked for CNN Greece as a video journalist and researcher for 6,5 years and from 2022, January until 2023 June, I was the supervising Producer at VICE Greece. I have covered stories in many countries of Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Russia and Africa, both for my employers and for my own documentary and photographic work.

I have been awarded in international film festivals for my documentaries and in photo contests. I also collaborate with some big international photo agencies and I have exposed my work in two personal exhibitions and taken part in four collective ones.

"Wideangle" is my own media and audiovisual production company and the outcome of all above. It is the obsession of not dealing with journalism, filmmaking and art one-dimensionally and the solid proof –at least for me- that specialization fetishism is a theory having nothing to do with human nature.

Education
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
(Political Communication) Politics and the Internet, Master's degree, Oct. 2021 - Sept. 2023 

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Contemporary immigration and refugees in Greece (5 months training program), 2021

University Oberta Catalunya, Spain
Master's degree, Digital editions, editorial processes, 2002 - 2004, Grade: A

Panteion Univercity of Economic and Political Sciences, Greece
Bachelor's degree, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, 1998 - 2002, Grade: A

Former Technological Educational Institute of Patras - (Today University of Patras), Greece
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING, 1989 - 1994, Grade: B

Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos, Greece
Bachelor's degree, photography and cinematography, 1988 - 1991

Seminars - Masterclasses - Conferences

• 2023 Equality and freedom from discrimination for Roma. powered by Council of Europe asn Equirom 
• 2021 March. "Google News Lab Digital Journalism Training", powered by Google and iMedD
• 2020 May. Editing of documentary. Five, two hours sessions of the art of editing presented by "Rough Cut Service" in collaboration with In-Docs, Generation Africa, IDF, DAE, Hot Docs, IDFA Bertha Fund and Docubox
• 2020 April. Alexander O. Philippe masterclass on documentary. Scripting the unscripted
• 2019 October - November, Columbia Journalism School training program, "Newsroom Essentials" by imedD. (Overview of Multimedia and Video Journalism, Data Journalism, Investigative Journalism, Business of Journalism)
• 2018 May. "The battle of algorithms", data journalism and fake news seminar, organized by the ΕCI – European Communication Institute
• 2018 March. "Google applications for journalists", organized by Google Newslab and the University of Athens, Faculty of Media and Communication
• 2017 June. "Dive into co-production markets". Seminar for film productions. Organized by Thessaloniki IFF - Agora/Industry
• 2017 January. Seminar for audiovisual editors on EU audiovisual facilities. Organized by Europarliament and European Commission
• 2016 October. Three days workshop on Investigative journalism and defamation law. Organized by: European centre of press & media freedom, European Federation of Journalism, International Press institute, ESIEMTH. Thessaloniki- Greece
• 2016 September. Internet of things conference 2016. Athens-Greece
• 2016 September. Cinema Sript Writing. Two masterclasses with noted Greek scriptwriters. Scriptwriters Guild of Greece
• 2016 July. Identifying and developing documentary. By Carol Disinger. Within the framework of International Film Festival of Patmos
• 2016 May. Acting in cinema. 10 masterclasses with noted Greek actrors on the art of acting. Filmschool, Greece
• 2016 April. Day conference: Multicopters and cinema. Organized by the Greek society of cinematographers
• 2015 July. Casting Director Masterclass. By Debbie McWilliams. Within the framework of International Film Festival of Patmos
• 2015 July. Script Pitching masterclass. By Tassos Boulmetis, Agata Darlasi, Greg Cokinakis. Within the framework of International Film Festival of Patmos
• 2015 July. Documentary and the web. By Lefteris Haritos. Within the framework of International Film Festival of Patmos
• 2015 March. The North American Documentary Broadcast Market. An overview by Peter Hamilton. Within the framework of Docs in Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2015
• 2015 March. Docs in Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2015. EDN workshop
• 2014 April. Christian Berger masterclass. about Cine Reflect Lighting System organized by GSC & IMAGO
• 2014 March. Distributing an auteur documentary. A case study on I Am Breathing with Ben Kempas. Within the framework of Docs in Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2014
• 2013 September. International seminar entitled "Training young people in documentary" organized by StoryDoc

As a tutor 

• 2022 May, Video journalism tools, webinar. Journalist's Union of Athens Daily Newspapers
• 2020 November, Video journalism in the new media environment webinar. Journalist's Union of Athens Daily Newspapers
• 2019 March, May, November. "New media seminar", (video journalism in the new media environment), Journalist's Union of Athens Daily Newspapers
• 2016 July. "The faces of immigration", Doc workshop as part of Patmos International Film Festival. 

Experience as a journalist

• 2022 January to present. Supervising Producer, journalist with VICE Greece
• 2009 to present. Freelance Journalist, video journalist, freelance contributor
• 2000 to present. I have worked with several TV stations and production companies a from abroad for news and documentary programs. Some of them: SRF (Swiss public RadioTV),TVP (Public TV of Argentina), NDTV (India), Inquieto produciones (Argentina), FASCINA PRODUCCIONES S.L (Spain), Glop a Glop Planet SLU (for Discovery channel)
• September 2012 to present. Producer, independent filmmaker, founder at wideangle media and audiovisual productions
• March 2009 to present. Foreign correspondent as a freelancer and production fixer.

Past positions

· Senior editor, video journalist, researcher with CNN Greece September 2015- December 2021
· Senior editor, foreign desk at Eleftheros Typos daily (global news editor, reportage, interviews, correspondent) September 1999 - September 2015
· Journalist at HOT DOC magazine, (main contributor with global news, reports, analysis, interviews) July 2012 - 2014
· From 2000 I have collaborated with the Greek magazines Nemesis, Fadomas, EPIKAIRA, MONO, Express daily, Action24 Press newspaper,  as a journalist and with the Libyan TV channel Al Asima as a cameraman and video journalist
· Editor in chief at Triaina Publications September 2009 - September 2010 and freelance contributor from 2006 to 2009
· Journalist at Exousia daily March 2000 - September 2000 as a copy editor
· Journalist at Ethnos daily March 1999 - March 2000 as a copy editor

Organizations

• Greek Documentary Association (member) March 2013 to Present
• Journalists Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (member) March 2003 to Present
• International Federation of Journalists (member) April 2004 to Present
• Economic Chamber of Greece (member) July 2011 to Present
• Professional Chamber of Athens (member) January 2013 to Present

Honors and Awards

• Best short documentary award. 10th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra. August, 2023. "Sabotage". Premier, 2022
• Best political  film award in the 1st History Arts and Sciences Film Festival (Athens, Greece) January, 2023."The promise". Premier, 2022.
• Political and Social film award in the 5th West Side Mountains Documentary Film Festival. September, 2022."The promise". Premier, 2022.
• 2nd Festival Award for Greek Feature Documentary in the 9th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra. August, 2022. "The promise". Premier, 2022.
• Golden award,  Best International Reporting for my story “Mission to Tunisia: saving dolphins, sea turtles and other vulnerable species through the MedBycatch project” , 2021, Digital Media Awards 2022
• Golden award,  Best International Reporting for my report  from the war in Nagorno Karabakh, 2020, Digital Media Awards 2021
• Odysseus award, 2^ο best documentary film at the 13th London Greek Film Festival for my documentary "Τhe square of a circle". Premier, 2019.
• Christofopos Charalampakis Award at the 6th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra 2019 for my documentary "Τhe square of a circle". Premier 2019.
• Best Long Form Story Award for my feature story "Christmas in women’s prison in Thiva" for CNN Greece, Digital Media Awards 2018
• Best short script award for my script "Christmas tale", London Greek Film Festival 2015
• Photography award for my film Yusef's Song. Ierapetra International Film Festival 2015 (Ierapetra, Greece)
• Jury prize for the film Yusef's Song. Baghdad International Film Festival 2014 (Jury Prize in the "Human Images" competition)
• Special mention for the film Yusef's Song. Sole Luna International Film Festival 2014 (Palermo-Treviso, Italy)
• Best Creative Documentary for "Welcome to the Show. P. Sidiropoulos' music legacy" London Greek Film Festival, 2013
• Best music film award for "Welcome to the show, Pavlos Sidiropoulos' music legacy" Cyprus International Film Festival 2013
• Special distinction in photo contest "My Poland-my Greece 2012"- Embassy of Poland - November 2012
• Special distinction in 19th national photo contest "Roes" December 2012 - Florina's Culture Club - December 2012
• Special distinction in "cloudiness and sunshines" photo contest - Municipality of Kordelio Euosmos - April 2013
• Scholarship for my postgraduate studies Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) –Gerasimos Lychnos Foundation 2003

Documentaries

• Sabotage. Premier 2022
• The Promise. Premier 2022
• Τhe square of a circle. Premier 2019
• "Interdom". (doc in development, June 2013 to present)
• Sculpting the silence. (doc in development, June 2014 to present)
• Yusef's song. March 2014. Premier at 16th Thessaloniki Doc Festival.
• Welcome to the show, Pavlos Sidiropoulos music legacy March 2013. Premier at 15th Thessaloniki Doc Festival.
• (Short docs about landmines in Cambodia and slums in Lima, Peru)

Fiction

• "The playmobil's hand" (2013, short by Mohamed Ben Guzzi) as DOP
• "The Nefeli's tango" (2014, short by Mohamed Ben Guzzi) as DOP
• Caligula (2015, feature-length by Andreas Thomopoulos) as DOP
• Vardia (2016, short by John Tzouvelekis) as DOP and producer
• Christmas tale, 2016, short, as director and producer

Skills & Expertise
Magazines Editing, New Media, Newspaper, Blogging, Editorial, Social Media, Video Production, Media Relations, Press
Releases, Creative Writing, Video Editing, Journalism, Photography, Photojournalism, Television, Storytelling, Multimedia,
Breaking News, Newspapers, Documentaries, Public Relations, Publishing, Broadcast Journalism, Media Production,
Broadcast, Film, News Writing, Radio, Video, Digital Media, Copy Editing, Newsletters, Online Journalism, Interviews,
Publicity, Copywriting, Corporate Communications, Web Content, Content Strategy, Publications, Digital Journalism,
Investigative Reporting

Digital Skills

 Audiovisual: Adobe Audition, AVID MEDIA COMPOSER, Da Vinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere pro, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe
photoshop, Subtitle Edit, AUDACITY

Office: Microsoft Excel, Google Tools, Social Media, Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint

Languages
-Greek (Native or bilingual proficiency)
-English (Full professional proficiency)
-Spanish (Full professional proficiency)
-Italian (Advanced working proficiency)
-Russian (Elementary level)
-German (Elementary level)

Interests
Journalism, books about politics, economy, literature. Photography and cinematography. Travel out of the beaten road

Contact
Phone, whatsapp, viber, telegram, signal: +306977599192, skype: kostaspliakos