Studies & first productions
Lykourgos Stavrakos School. At the same time, assistant camera operator and assistant editor on productions for ERT2 and ERT1. He collaborated with G. Petritsis, S. Magoulas and others.
DIRECTOR · PRODUCER · COPYWRITER · ENTREPRENEUR
A life in images,
communication and action.
From 16mm film and one-inch video editing to private television, radio, advertising and small-business entrepreneurship.
ABOUT ME
Creativity, responsibility, adaptability
Theodosis Malamas was born in Athens in 1963. His professional career began in cinema and television production and evolved into a journey spanning directing, editing, on-air promotion, radio, advertising, teaching and entrepreneurship.
He studied at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School of Film and Television, specialising in Directing, Cinematography and Editing, and later studied Electronics at the Technological Educational Institute of Larissa – Lamia Branch. At the same time, he was already working on productions for ERT1 and ERT2, gaining experience with 16mm film and one-inch video.
TIMELINE
Milestones along the way
Lamia – Electronics, photography, radio
Studies at the TEI. Photojournalism, a film club and active involvement in student life.
From amateur “Adonis” 97.1 FM to STAR FM
Together with his flatmate, he founded the amateur radio station “Adonis” on 97.1 FM. After it closed, he joined Experimental Radio of Lamia, later STAR FM.
There he created a series of shows, including the monthly “Full Moon Tribute”, featuring his own scripts and music selections. Each edition explored a different travel destination through local music and a fictional story narrated by Malamas himself, while the characters were portrayed by film director Eugenia Oikonomou and Panos Angelopoulos, president of the Lamia Film Club.
His weekly programme “Riverboat AVRA” explored the Greek pop scene and featured interviews with songwriters and artists, among them Vangelis Germanos, Anna Vissi, Nikos Karvelas, Andreas Mikroutsikos, Sofia Vossou and others.
On cold winter nights with torrential rain, he held friendly Greek-versus-international music contests with the late Kostas Vennios, in the presence of station director Giorgos Dedousis, the station’s driving spirit. Even in the early hours, listeners would run to public telephone booths to dedicate songs to friends gathered elsewhere in the city or ask for the broadcast to continue.
Hellenic Air Force
Military service as assistant telecommunications supervisor, teletype technician and camera operator at a radar unit in Pelion, also filming operational exercises, as well as working as a crypto and communications technician for communications with Greek fighter aircraft, among other duties.
ANT1
Director-editor in On Air Promotion. From 2000, Head of Trailers / On Air Promotion Director.
SUBSTANCE
Founded “SUBSTANCE – Communication Production”, with a television studio behind the Panathenaic Stadium, post-production facilities and television crews.
THEMA / ThemaOutdoor
During a difficult period for small studios, he turned to outdoor advertising and developed THEMA, a business that evolved into ThemaOutdoor's inflatable advertising structures.
“The Roads of Europe”
He directed the monthly current-affairs programme “The Roads of Europe”, travelling to Strasbourg and Brussels for location filming, journalistic interviews, round-table discussions and special features about a united Europe and its leading figures.
In cooperation with the European Parliament’s office in Athens, the completed programme was reproduced for broadcast by a network of private television stations throughout Greece.
ALPHA TV & ALPHA 98.9
On Air Promotion Director for television and, at the same time, producer/presenter of the daily radio show “Na Ekpompi Na Malama”.
Productions & entrepreneurship
Educational productions for KANEP–GSEE, followed by advertising productions, Fotosmart and ThemaOutdoor.
TELEVISION
From editing to On Air Promotion
At ANT1 he worked on programme promotion, promos, station IDs, graphics and corporate identity. His work from this period included material for “Proinos Kafes”, “Club Sandwich”, the Group's satellite channels and advertising productions.
In 2004 he moved to ALPHA as Head of Trailers / On Air Promotion Director. He reorganised the department's workflow and production line, strengthening both the creative team and the strategy for promoting the channel's programming.
“A station's image is not a single trailer. It is the consistency of all the small creative decisions viewers see every day.”
RADIO
“Na Ekpompi Na Malama”
Radio was a passion that began during his student years and returned strongly at Alpha 98.9.
From October 2004 until the summer of 2006, Theodosis Malamas presented the daily 16:00–18:00 entertainment and satirical show “Na Ekpompi Na Malama”, featuring music, humour, guests and outside events.
“Because laughter travels & is contagious!”
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
From SUBSTANCE to ThemaOutdoor
SUBSTANCE (1992)
Communication production, television studio, post-production, television crews, advertising spots, corporate videos, educational videos and music videos.
THEMA / ThemaOutdoor (1996)
Outdoor advertising followed by specialisation in inflatable advertising structures and promotional applications.
themaoutdoor.gr ↗Fotosmart (2010)
Contemporary commercial and advertising activity in printing, production and communications applications.
fotosmart.gr ↗PERSONAL JOURNEY
Family
He first married director Eugenia Oikonomou, and they had two children: a son in 1995 and a daughter in 1997. In 2010 he married Maria Malama, and in 2013 they had twin boys. Theodosis Malamas is therefore today the proud father of four wonderful children.
PERSONAL ARCHIVE
Moments from radio and events
A selection from the personal photographic archive of the period.
CONTACT
Theodosis Malamas
Vyronas · Athens
POLITICAL & SOCIAL JOURNEY
From the TEI of Lamia to the South Athens constituency
His political involvement began in 1981, when, at the age of 18, he joined PASOK and voted for the first time.
During his student years, after attending Film School in Athens, from 1984 to 1988, he served as president of the students at the TEI of Lamia. He took a leading role in founding the Students’ Association and was active in PASP. As he recalls, together with fellow members he sought to run the association through direct democracy and an open-minded approach, advocating for students’ needs beyond party-political considerations.
In 2025, former students of the TEI of Lamia held a reunion after 40 years. In their shared recollection, the TEI of Lamia was a small “green Gallic village”: PASP retained its leading position even as DAP-NDFK gained strength nationally across the TEIs.
After completing his studies and military service, he returned to Athens and became actively involved in local PASOK organisations in Pangrati, supporting and promoting PASOK’s campaign during parliamentary elections. He subsequently participated in local events organised by the movement until 2020, when he became seriously ill. In 2024, he occasionally helped with the campaign of Alexis Sotiropoulos, then a candidate and now the mayor of Vyronas.
In 2026 he returned to active political involvement with PASOK – Movement for Change in the B3 South Athens constituency, with Vyronas as a key point of reference and a particular focus on small and medium-sized businesses, the local market, single-parent families, large families and social cohesion, with particular attention to self-employed people with disabilities.
Read more on his political Facebook page: Theodosis Malamas.
Contact – Political activity
Facebook: Theodosis Malamas
YouTube: youtube.com/@malamaspasok
TikTok: tiktok.com/@malamaspasok
Instagram: instagram.com/malamaspasok
Email: malamaspasok@gmail.com