Michail Samiotis

Michail Samiotis is a Greek production designer and art director based in Athens, whose career spans more than three decades across feature films, television series, short films and commercial productions. His work focuses on creating the visual environments in which stories unfold, translating scripts and directors' visions into locations, sets, interiors and carefully constructed cinematic worlds.Samiotis began working in film during the 1990s, building his experience through productions such as Balcanizateur (1997), where he worked as an assistant art director, and From the Edge of the City (1998), Black Milk (1999), Cheap Smokes (2000) and August Weekend (2002). His early career also included work with some of the most distinctive filmmakers of Greek cinema, including Theo Angelopoulos, Christos Georgiou and Constantine Giannaris.Over the years, he established himself as a production designer, taking responsibility for the overall visual and physical identity of numerous film and television productions. Among his feature-film credits are The Heiress, Lines, Smuggling Hendrix, Green Sea, My Name Is Eftihia, Smyrna, The Flaw and Last Call. His work on Smyrna was part of a production that received multiple Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including awards for Production Design and Costume Design.His filmography also includes Apallou, for which he was credited as Art Director, demonstrating the range of his work across different levels of the art department and different forms of production. He has also maintained a significant presence in advertising, working on more than 200 television commercials since 2000 for major brands including COSMOTE, Vodafone, Aegean Airlines, Nestlé, L'Oréal, Alpha Bank and others.Samiotis has developed a particularly strong professional relationship with Tanweer Productions. His collaborations with the company include the television series 42°C and 17 Threads, as well as the feature films My Name Is Eftihia, Smyrna, The Suitcase and Last Call.For Rififi, the COSMOTE TV/Tanweer Productions crime series directed by Sotiris Tsafoulias, Samiotis served as Production Designer, working alongside Art Director Myrto Daskaroli. The production required the recreation of a very specific period and urban environment, with the visual design playing an important role in establishing the atmosphere of the story.His recent credits include Last Call (2026), directed by Francis Sherif, where he again served as Production Designer, as well as Tanweer productions including The Suitcase, Ghosts and the television series Project Odysseus.With a career extending from the independent Greek cinema of the 1990s to contemporary television and large-scale commercial productions, Michail Samiotis has become an experienced figure in Greek production design. His body of work reflects a long-standing ability to build convincing cinematic spaces while adapting his visual approach to very different periods, genres and storytelling demands.