The Team

Vasileios Kontodimas

President

With studies in engineering, Vasileios Kontodimas is an award-winning visual effects supervisor, engaged in active production since 1993 in the fields of broadcasting, virtual reality, advertising, post-production and CGI/VFX. As a team leader, he has attained 5 Hermes (Ermis) Production Awards, designed and implemented the infrastructure of three major studios in Southern Europe, and was instrumental in obtaining the Production Company of the year for 2 consecutive years.

He has produced work for clients such as Gazprom, Loreal, Nestle, Unilever, 20th Century Fox and others. His slate includes over a hundred international commercials, music videos, documentaries, live events (national elections backend, Athens Olympics 2004), TV series, and 4 feature films. As an adept entrepreneur, he spearheads the business strategy of VIP Inc. while being the creator of the extended franchise titled Fractured Infinity.

Location: Oregon, United States

Elisabeth Kontodimas

Vice President

Elisabeth Katherine Kontodimas is a senior management executive with an extensive background in business administration and psychology.

As a senior executive, she has studied acting and became an adept story and film analyst, while her past experience includes corporation, personnel, and facility management, specializing in turning former problematic companies into healthy and profitable entities.

Elisabeth is also an experienced healthcare specialist, who oversees all production related health protocols. Additionally, she spearheads the corporation’s daily operations & personnel and sets the standards for the company’s human-centered culture.

Location: Oregon, United States

Orlanda Szabo

Director of Development

An 8-time feature finalist screenwriter, Orlanda is a seasoned top-10 ranking in American Gem and Pavaline competitions. Mentored under Robert Ginty, she became a High Concept ProSeries ScreenWritingU alumni, focused mainly on science fiction & supernatural genres. Additionally, she delved into acting on Brad Pitt’s “The Assassination of Jesse James”, Renee Zelwegger’s “New in Town” and “Wrong Turn 4” during a script-to-screen series on different genres.

Script consultant since 2009 on VIP Inc.’s lead franchise, Orlanda is joining the creative and management team of the corporation to set up the tone and direction of the company’s IPs.

Location: Manitoba, Canada

Eleni Larchanidou LLM

Director of Financing

Eleni Larchanidou LLM is a Literary & Talent Manager, Executive Producer, Int’l Business Consultant in Film & Entertainment Industry, and Fully Qualified German and International Lawyer.

Engaged in film since 2004, her duties include fundraising and structuring financial plans through the use of foreign co-productions, equity financing, debt financing, production incentives, tax credits, subsidies, grants, gap financing, presales in domestic and/or international territories, product placement financing, branding, sponsoring, soundtrack financing, among others.

Location: California, United States

Thierry Potok

Director of Production

Currently Chairman of the Icelandic Film Fund, Mr. Thierry Potok has a strong background in the finance sector and served as a studio executive, including as the head of Vivendi Deutchland, owner of Studio Babelsberg (1999), and Chairman and CEO of the MP MedienParks NRW in Cologne.

As as an executive producer, he has supervised studio shoots of Kevin Spacey’s “Beyond the Sea”, Paul Gleengrass’ “The Bourne Supremacy”, Stephen Hopkin’s “Race”; as co-producer, Frank Coraci’s “Around the World in 80 Days”, Breck Eisner’s “Sahara”, and Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven”; and, as associate producer, Paul W.S. Anderson’s “Alien vs. Predator” among other major film productions.

Location: Texas, United States

Mario Regorz

Executive Producer

Executive and award-winning producer, Mario is an innovator with a multidisciplinary and multicultural experience with teams throughout the globe. His activities engage in strategic & marketing foresight, global media trend & technology, premium content production & distribution, business case & model development for TV, advertising, and motion pictures.

In his holistic approach, he has cooperated with companies such as ProSieben, Sat.1, Kabel 1, n24, DeutscheWelle, GermanTV, GoldStarTV, SKY, Daimler AG, Discovery Channel, Entertainment Channel (E!), MBC Dubai, BahrainTV, Saudi1, EnterAktion L.A., 3d plus media AG, WFC Global Motion Picture AG, RedBull Media, Yucatan Productions, Arte, and others.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Venturous Innovation Pictures Inc. (VIP Inc.) is an innovative, privately held corporation (Oregon StateReg #159834895) centering on film, TV, digital media production, and post-production. VIP focuses on developing high-concept IPs and acquires those in sync with its mission statement from a proprietary network of associates. Its goal is to bring unique titles to a global audience for the big, small, and computer screen.