KIKIS

Thoma Kikis is a New York City based filmmaker and designer. His innovative thinking and visual artistry in the areas of corporate branding, design and development, film and TV production, and media communications, as well as critical experience in web design, Internet culture and Digital Cinematography. He has worked with such companies as MTV, VH1, SonicNet, Icon Medialab, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Columbia University and ERT, Hellenic Broadcasting, Greece's national television station. Mr. Kikis conceived the Ovie name, designed the corporate logo and continues to develop Ovie branding and business strategies.

Kikis is the founder of Ovie Entertainment, a New York City based motion picture production company which he founded in 2003. He recently Produced and Executive Produced "Darkon" an Award-Winning documentary about the daily and fantasy lives of a group of live action role play gamers in Baltimore, Maryland as well as "The Funeral Party" based on the novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya, with Semyon Strugachev, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Yekaterina Golubeva and Lothaire Bluteau and the first feature film using the new Arri D-20 Digital 35mm camera.

Before founding Ovie, his experience includes work in film and TV production and Digital Cinematography in Europe. Kikis creative produced ERT TV's magazine show, "Hellenic Weekly," focusing that season on the Athens Olympic Games in 2004.

Previously, Kikis was instrumental in developing Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield's "Butterfly" branding concept, ad campaign, and interactive website along with Icon Medialab. He also developed distance learning edutainment programs at Teachers College, Columbia University, and at TCI/Teachers College Innovations. As co-founder of Siliconfish, an Internet incubator, he developed Harmone.com, a DRM (Digital Rights Management) portal designed to explore revenue models for legal and proprietary ways of licensing music via the Internet.

Before co-founding Siliconfish, Kikis worked at MTV Interactive, a unit of Viacom, where he was responsible for projects involving interactive strategy, solutions, branding and design. At MTV, he worked on the redesign of the MTV.com website, on the online branding campaign for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, and he helped introduce the first interactive web/TV game show, 'webRIOT' starring Ahmet Zappa. He also developed spots for 'My VH1 Music Awards' for VH1 and FlashRadio for SonicNet.com. Prior to his work at MTV, he was a member of the creative producing team of The World Mysteries/The Mysteries of Eleusis, a theater and music spectacle presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 1998 Next Wave Festival.

Mr. Kikis attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University as well as the New York Film Academy.