ABOUT US
Cinergies is a Greek social cooperative founded in 2016 whose purpose is to create and support alternative narratives to foster equitable and sustainable pathways. The cooperative specializes in transmedia documentary production and explores new mediums to cover events and share the important stories of our times integrating audio/video/photography to research and storytelling. As a team it gathers a diverse set of people, whose skills complement one another in order to document and recognize how people actively resist and shape transformational pathways. It aims to concretely enable know-how and capacity-building services to support and further disseminate the achievements of social economy and sustainability initiatives, which often suffer from a lack of visibility. By giving voice to people that are disempowered by mainstream media, the cooperative provides an opportunity for people to become actors – agents– of change rather than merely spectators.
meet the cooperative
Karina
Benessaiah
Scenario Development
Concept Design
Researcher
Postdoctoral fellow at McGill University…
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Postdoctoral fellow at McGill University. Her academic work focuses on understanding adaptations and transformations to crises, and how these create new opportunities towards sustainable and equitable pathways. She is passionate about merging arts and sciences to allow marginalized voices to be heard and engaged participatory action research to be conducted in partnership with people and initiatives working to bring about change on the ground. Her research, storytelling experience and big picture thinking complement the skills of the rest of the team.
Thomas
Ginis
Director Of Photography
Cinematography
Editing
Filmmaker with studies in history and cinema…
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Filmmaker with studies in history and cinema, who collaborated as director of Photography and director on various productions for TV and Cinema for the past decade, bringing cinema aesthetics to documentary and promotional productions.
Kostas
Mavrias
Production Design
Photography
Screenwriting
Business administration graduate and photojournalist…
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Business administration graduate and veteran photographer, Kostas has developed his storytelling by covering sustainability initiatives in Southern Europe. In the years leading production activities of Cinergies Co-Op he developed a keen interest in emergent economic and production models, as well as in creating educational experiences tackling the wave of missinformation and fake news.
Maria
Archonti
Project Management
Production Design
With studies in communication…
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With background in communication and culture, has been working at Cinergies Co-Op for the past two years, she manages the financial and administrative aspects of our projects being responsible for budget management, organizing educational seminars, and coordinating the development and production of film projects.
Ioannis
Koutouzis
Cinematography
Editing
Logistics
With studies in logistics & MS in Film Production…
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With studies in logistics focusing on the growth of the social economy in Greece (Technical University of Central Greece) and an MS in Culture and Documentary production (University of Aegean) Giannis is pursuing the filmmaker’s path with focus in narration while taking lead positions in production and financial management of the Co-Op.
Antonis
Vasilakos
Sound Engineer
Sound Design
Website design
Videographer and sound specialist …
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Sound, drone operator and IT specialist keeps the digital gears of the cooperative moving. His auditory passion for music and sound also ensures a high quality of the audio content. He is also in charge of the interactive component of the cooperative’s website development, meshing various mediums to better tell stories of change.