Production
Nov 3, 1952
Constantinople, Turkey
Faidon Sofianos
Production
Biography
Phaedon Sofianos (born November 4, 1952 in Istanbul) is a Greek director, composer and television producer, member of the Sofianos Family. He was born in Istanbul to a Greek father and a German mother. His sister is Ivi Sofianou and his parents are Brigitte Sofianou and Dimos Sofianos. When he was nine years old, the whole family came and settled in Greece, specifically in Nea Smyrni. He graduated from the German School of Athens, studied at the Law School of Athens and did postgraduate studies in corporate law in Freiburg, West Germany. He worked as a German teacher with the Goethe Institute of Athens and with the Moraiti, Marouda and Ag. Friday. He studied photography at the Stavrakos School, Communication at the Open University of Hagen, West Germany and Philosophy at the Open University of Athens. Since 1975 he has been working exclusively for the audio-visual productions of the Sofianou House companies as a producer, director and composer. He has collaborated with Greek and foreign telephone stations and large international media companies with several distinctions inside and outside Greece. Since 2005, he has taken over the direction of the studios and the artistic program of the Mabrida Art Center in Koropi, Attica, where TV shows and films are filmed and, in addition to the large doll exhibition of Mrs. Sofianou, various visual exhibitions, theater and puppet shows, concerts, conferences and special seminars but also philosophy departments, creative art workshops and special agricultural programs. He deals with musical composition with the guitar as his main instrument, writing, sculpture, painting and taking care of abandoned animals that are housed in the stables of the Mabrida Mall.
Feature Films (1)
Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.
Froutopia
Television & Series (6)
A children's series with puppets and actors, produced by the Sofianos family. In it stars a little girl, Paraskevi, and her box of puppets which are named Sevastianos, Fiogkos, Rouchlas and Melia. As soon as night falls and Paraskevi goes to her bedroom to sleep, she opens the box and the puppets recount to her folk tales from all over the world. The fairy tales were collected by Ivi Sofianou from libraries in Munich. The series premiered on Friday, February 5, 1988 and ran for 22 episodes.
