2010, Finland, 4 min. |
Prod. / Dir. of Phot. / Edit. / Sound: Ilias Missyris
Script / Nar. / Music: School of Alakylä 4b students
Dir.: Raija Leikkola, Vesa Heinonen 

Ilias Misiris

He is Greek by nationality, and lives in Vaasa (Finland). He studied electronics at the Polytechnic Institute of Piraeus (Greece), intercultural relations at the Obo Academy University of Turku (Finland), and audiovisual communication and media production in Vaasa. For the past eight years, he has been the artistic director of the Vaasa Wildlife Festival at the Terranova Nature Center of the Ostrobothnian Museum. Before that, he was the head of various EU projects in the field of education, training and culture at the Culture Department of Vaasa for five years. For the past three years, he has been a specialist in media literacy workshops for children and young people, and has also participated in the production of various television documentaries in Finland, Greece, and recently in China. He also has experience in voice-over work, having been a practicing musician for over 30 years. For the past 16 years, he has been performing with an ethno-folk orchestra in Finland.

Filmography

Among the surrounding nature and animals (2004), Shadow Theater Animation Workshop for Children with 6 films (Noreluk, The Story of Man, Sonya and Friends, In Christina's Forest, School Trip, The Forest of Flowers, 2008), Vasai Wildlife Festival Media Education Project with 4 films (The Moving Dock, Green Flag Day, A Walk to Kvarken, Large Predators, 2009), Vasai Wildlife Festival Media Education Project with 12 films (The Call of the Giant, Attack of the Ghosts, The Magic Wand, The Year of the Animals, Our School Then and Now, Ode to Society, The Mystery of Cotta Bar, A Lesson from the Lords of the Forest, The Peace of the Forest Endangered, Honeymoon, The Kite of Kornas, The Blues of the River Kuiro, 2010), Media Education Project of the Vasai Wildlife Festival (The First is Possible, Paradise of the Tavig River, 2011).