Elias Plagianos

Writer / Director Elias Plagianos’ film and television projects have won Best Director, Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, Best TV Pilot, and Best Actor awards for his cast at over 75 International Film Festivals including 10 of MovieMaker Magazines list of Top 25 and Top 50 Festivals. He is the Director of Programming at the North Fork TV Festival.

In addition to his creative work behind the camera, he is a partner at the new media startup venture “Zero Channel”. Their first project (written and directed by Plagianos) “Shoot Me Nicely” stars iconic actors Linda Hamilton and William Sadler. Shoot Me Nicely won over 40 International Festival Awards including being named Best Independent TV Pilot by Sky TV, Europe’s largest media broadcaster, at Snowdance, and winning Best TV Pilot at the Academy qualifying Hollyshorts in Los Angeles.

Elias just completed producing the Australian film "Rancour" for Blumhouse owned CryptTV, and is currently in development on several feature film and new media projects as he tours the festival circuit with his latest award winning film "Sombra City", a future noir filmed in Havana, Cuba.