Nico's new film ANIMA EX MACHINA, a visual love poem to classical car beauty, is now completed and available for submission to film festivals, only by invite. If you feel that your festival is right for this unique 39 minute film (featuring extensive AI work) please contact us through Filmfreeway.

Born in Athens, Greece. Academic studies (journalism, literature, and languages).

Initially, a reporter (with four of the major newspapers in Greece, twice awarded for high standards of journalism and ethics). Record Producer - Lyricist (he wrote and produce many hit singles with Vangelis), Concert Promoter (brought The Rolling Stones to Athens for the first time, in 1967) and Radio Producer / DJ (some 3,000 hours of live and taped radio shows).

A Television Director / Writer / Producer (wrote, produced, directed and hosted some 2,500 hours of live and taped TV shows, including This Is Your Life, Candid Camera etc.)

An Independent Producer / Director / Writer. He wrote, produced and directed two low-budget features ("Death Has Blue Eyes" and "Island Of Death", now a cult classic horror) before getting involved in “The Greek Tycoon” (starring Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset), which he created, wrote the script and produced for ABKCO Films and Universal.

A major studio producer, under contract to Paramount Pictures. He developed various feature film properties and wrote (with Barnaby Conrad) two published novels: Keepers Of The Secret (Jove) and Fire Below Zero (Dell).

Since 1979, when he left Paramount, he has been a true Independent. Producer / Writer / Director and President & CEO of Omega Entertainment and its subsidiaries. "Blood Tide" Writer / Producer. "The Time Traveler" Writer / Producer / Director. "Blind Date" Writer / Producer / Director. "Skyhigh" , "The Zero Boys" ,"Nightmare At Noon" and "Terminal Exposure" Writer / Producer / Director "Grandmother's House" Producer, "Bloodstone" Writer / Producer, "Glitch", "Ninja Academy" , "Hired To Kill" , "In The Cold Of The Night" , "The Naked Truth" Writer / Producer / Director, “.com For Murder” Writer / Producer / Director. Some of these features have received top prizes and awards from various international festivals and many had excellent reviews.
In 1990, he single-handedly designed and launched Antenna Television, Greece's major independent network, which has been for 25 years the number one in ratings and revenue.
In 1993 he designed, launched and managed (as Chairman and CEO) the Star Channel, which, from day one, became Greece's third biggest network.
His duties involved complete technical design of six studios, three mobile units, in-house production teams, hiring a staff of 560, designing everything from logos to live shows, producing and directing most of them and running the day-to-day operations of the network. From inception to launch, it took only seven months. He also created and hosted a new late-night talk show, which topped the ratings and changed the way talk shows are produced in Greece.

His brief involvement with the Miss Universe 2000 Pageant, resulted to the fruition of long and demanding negotiations for Cyprus to host the event; citing irreconcilable differences with the Government of Cyprus and the increasing tension between the Miss Universe Organization and Ministers of the host country, he quit the event two months before the telecast. "My real talent", says Nico, "is to get out of such messy situations quickly, when all remedies of diplomacy and professionalism have failed".

In 1995, he created his own radio station, Radio Gold which became instantly the #1 classic rock station in the country. Radio Gold was shut down (for speaking freely) by the corrupt and oppressive ministers of the socialist government of Kostas Simitis. Nico fought the corrupt government’s injustice tooth and nail for three years and won, in Greece’s Superior Court, re-opening Radio Gold and gaining one of the top positions in Greece’s music radio list.

In all, Nico Mastorakis has written 2 novels and 37 screenplays, produced 19 features, wrote and directed 15, edited 12 and mixed the sound for 17 of them.

He is considered a "Renaissance man", a filmmaker who goes from story to script to the actual movie to post to the tag line to the sales and marketing campaign. As a great promoter and salesman, he revolutionized the way independents promoted and sold their product, with impressive yet inexpensive campaigns in Cannes, MIFED and the AFM. For a long time, in the independent sales community, anything that was a cut above the ordinary, was labeled as "The Mastorakis style" and, justifiably, GQ Magazine wrote that "Mastorakis can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo".
Nico has won multiple awards for "Mykonos, The Soul of An Island" and "Alimos, Greek Riviera's Blue Diamond." His new film "Anima Ex Machina" will be submitted to festivals by invitation only. Feel free to invite us.