AI Work · Campaign · jouel.app
10+ YEARS IN COMMERCIALS
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I write, direct, edit and mix. The meetings are short.
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Kiden
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There Is a Way
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Video ads for Meta, TikTok and YouTube. I take projects from concept to final cut, or work alongside your team. White-label when needed.
Vertical first
Designed for 9:16 from the first shot, with 4:5 and 16:9 versions when needed.
One idea, many openings
Different hooks from the same concept, ready for testing.
Same face in every shot
Custom AI workflows help keep characters and products consistent across shots.
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Jouel
Kiden
Directed the launch ad for kiden.app, the startup I co-founded.
Director’s note
Solo AI pipeline. The tools are new. The decisions aren't.
- Credits
- Concept, script, direction, AI generation, edit, sound
- Workflow
- Image Generation: NanoBanana, GPT Image 2, Video Generation: Seedance 2.0, Upscaling: SeedVR2, Production Management: Airtable and Edit & Grade: DaVinci Resolve.
Principal credits
- Project
- A film for Kiden
- Directed & Produced by
- Stelios Alexandrakis
There Is a Way
Too much noise can make the world disappear.
Synopsis
There Is a Way is an independent AI cinematic short about inner noise, paralysis, and the moment direction becomes visible again.
Rooted in the quiet frustration of accumulated delays, refusals and dead ends, the film turns an external reality into an inner allegory. The crowd becomes noise. The city empties as the mind becomes still.
Director’s note
The direction does not arrive from outside.
It reveals itself when the noise clears.
The Process
Behind the story was another question: AI can already generate striking images, but can it sustain character, emotion and cinematic narration across an entire film?
The process went far beyond generating individual shots. Character identity across angles, wardrobe and prop continuity, camera geography, performance, editing, grading and sound design all had to function as one visual language.
- Dialogue
- Greek
- Subtitles
- English
- Film by
- Stelios Alexandrakis
- Workflow
- Midjourney, Figma, GPT Image 2, Seedance via Higgsfield, ElevenLabs and DaVinci Resolve.
Open to collaborations in AI-native filmmaking and cinematic storytelling.
Slayin
BMW X5 — Kuwait (TVC)
Filmed in Kuwait.
- Client
- Ali Alghanim & Sons (BMW Kuwait)
- Credits
- Written, directed and edited by Stelios Alexandrakis.
Europol — Say No!
A short film confronting online sexual coercion and extortion targeting children.
Synopsis
Produced for Europol's awareness campaign, Say No! addresses the growing threat of online sexual coercion and extortion targeting children.
The ten-minute film combines dramatic storytelling with educational messaging, aiming to communicate the seriousness of the issue without becoming a conventional instructional video.
Production challenge
The challenge was to balance drama and education: creating a compelling narrative while preserving the gravity and clarity of the campaign's message.
Supplied claim · pending verification
The supplied description reports more than 15 million views across Europe.
Not independently verified.
- Client
- Europol
- Year
- 2017
- Production
- Indigo View
Principal credits
- Director
- Stelios Alexandrakis
- Writers
- Europol, Stelios Alexandrakis
- Editor
- Stelios Alexandrakis
Full credits
Crew
- Director of Photography
- George Mpompolakis
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Manolis Kolokotronis
- Production Designer
- Nikos Triantafyllou
- Assistant Director
- Androniki Ellinikaki
- Camera Operators
- George Padazis, Arguris Koulezakis
- Set Designer
- George Mavredakis
- Costume Design and Make-Up
- Mikela Papadoulakis
- Music
- John Christodoulopoulos
- Sound Designer
- Kostas Kokolakis
- Color Correction
- Manolis Kolokotronis, George Mpompolakis
- Production Assistant
- Axilleas Valeras
- Artistic Supervisor
- Theo Papadoulakis
- Producers
- Dimitris Xenakis, Ioanna Davis
- Contact with Europol
- Astrid Bluemlein
Pending confirmation
The English production credits are the supplied working list. Conflicting names or roles from the separate Greek credits have not been merged.
The supplied Europol copyright and reuse restrictions require review in full before public publication. Reuse permission has not been confirmed.
European Commission — Internet of Things: e-Health
- Client
- European Commission
ENISA — Cyber Europe
A commercial promoting Cyber Europe 2016, ENISA's large-scale cybersecurity exercise.
Synopsis
Produced in 2015, the film promotes the Cyber Europe 2016 exercise, scheduled for autumn 2016.
- Client
- ENISA
- Year
- 2015
- Production
- Indigo View
Principal credits
- Director
- Stelios Alexandrakis
- Writers
- Stelios Alexandrakis, Panagiotis Papoutsakis
- Editors
- Stelios Alexandrakis, Aristoteles Daskalakis
- Producers
- Dimitris Xenakis, Ioanna Davis
Full credits
Crew
- Director of Photography
- George Mpompolakis
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Manolis Kolokotronis
- Sound Designer / Sound Recordist
- Anastasis Efentakis
- Production Designer
- Nikos Triantafyllou
- Costume Design and Make-Up
- Mikela Papadoulakis
- Assistant Director
- Androniki Ellinikaki
- Camera Operator
- George Padazis
- Color Correction
- Stelios Alexandrakis
Cast
CEO: Manolis Mavrakis, CTO: John Marakis, Film Director: John Agathokleous, Tech: Kostas Kokolakis, Security Guard: Nikos Triantafyllou.
Sinuk — Loopia Band (Official Music Video)
What would you do if the sea was safer than the land?
Synopsis
Sinuk is the debut single by Loopia Band. A story about two orphaned children navigating a bombed city, searching for a way out. A rotten boat. A raging sea. No choice.
Director’s note
Our way of speaking about what words alone cannot say.
- Year
- 2019
- Production
- Loopia Band
Principal credits
- Music & Lyrics
- Irida Tsigara
- Music Arrangement & Recordings
- Antonis Voumvoulakis
- Directed & Edited by
- Stelios Alexandrakis
- Director of Photography
- George Mpompolakis
Full credits
Crew
- Audio Mix & Master
- Yiannis Zoumis
- Written by
- Stelios Alexandrakis, Irida Tsigara, Antonis Voumvoulakis
- Camera Operator / Color Correction
- Haris Ntoukakis
- Visual Effects
- Nektarios Karanikas
- FX Artist
- Maksym Poda
- Drone Operator
- Aristotelis Daskalakis
- Paintings
- Stratos Saviolakis & Maria Stratidaki
Cast
Maria Kontaxaki, Pantelis Halvatzis, Irida Tsigara, Antonis Voumvoulakis.
Special thanks
Maksym Poda, Eva Tziraki, Lefteris Halvatzis, Irini Arvaniti, Mihalis Kontaxakis, Menelaos Pab, Lefteris Trichakis, Marina Kokkinaki, Maria Stefou, Thanos Panz, Leonidas Fakourelis, Mary Mertzani, Champloo Creative Team.
ZAROS Water TVC — Close Encounters of the Cretan Kind
- Year
- 2014
Principal credits
- Advertising Agency
- L&O Advertising
- Director
- Stelios Alexandrakis
- Writers
- Stelios Alexandrakis, Andreas Vourdoumpas
- Director of Photography
- Stelios Alexandrakis
Full credits
Crew
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Andreas Vourdoumpas
- Music and Sound Designer
- Antonis Voumvoulakis
- Editing and Color Correction
- Stelios Alexandrakis
- Starring
- Kostas Manioudakis
50 Years Plastika Kritis
- Client
- Plastika Kritis
Selected Work — Stelios Alexandrakis
A collection of directorial pieces from TV commercials, short films and corporate projects shot in various locations around the world.