Laki Karavias

Laki Karavias is a Greek-American filmmaker, currently dividing his time between Europe and the Pacific Northwest. 

Because much of his childhood and post graduate work has been abroad, he is drawn to characters, settings, and experiences that take viewers beyond American boundaries and into the lives of some of the extraordinary people he has met during his travels. 

After studying screenwriting and directing at the National Film and Television School (UK) and the Prague Film School, Laki began crafting on paper the narratives he’d hope to see one day on the big screen—stories mixing gravitas and whimsy, while maintaining a human core. 

Laki's work has been featured on Upworthy, Vox, Sirius XM, Ad Week, The Kelly Clarkson Show and Christianity Today and his documentary and narrative films have screened at and won awards at Oscar, BAFTA and Canadian Screen Qualifying festivals, including the Oscar qualifying Grand Prize for Documentary Short at Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival. 

When not making films, Laki looks for opportunities to pursue his passion for adolescent film education, particularly for youth living in underserved communities and economically fragile contexts both locally and abroad.