ABOUT US
Cinergies is a Greek social cooperative (5 co-funding active members) founded in mid-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
Kostas Mavrias
Production Design
Photography
Screenwriting
Ioannis Koutouzis
Cinematography
Editing
Logistics
Antonis Vasilakos
Sound Engineer
Sound Design
Website design
Thomas Gkinis
Director Of Photography
Cinematography
Editing
Karina Benessaiah
Scenario Development
Concept Design
Research
Business administration graduate and experienced freelance photojournalist, Kostas has been developing his interest in storytelling by covering in the past five years key moments of emergent sustainability initiatives in Southern Europe.
With studies in logistics focusing on the growth of the social economy in Greece (Technical University of Central Greece), Yannis is pursuing the filmmaker’s path, taking the lead position in editing/post production.
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.
Filmmaker with studies in history and cinema, who collaborated as director of Photography and director on various productions in TV and Cinema for the past 7 years, bringing cinema aesthetics to documentary productions.
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.