THEODOROS MARAGOS was born in Filiatra, Messinia, in Southwest Peloponnesus, Greece. He began drawing at a young age and was engaged in sketching and caricature. He studied Graphic Arts and taught himself animation, since there was no applicable school in Greece at the time. He began his artistic career creating animations and he undertook to learn all aspects of cinema. At 25 years of age, he completed the first animated film in Greece titled TSOUF which was awarded with first place at the International Festival of Thessaloniki in 1969.

In 1981, THEODOROS MARAGOS created, produced and directed the feature film Mathe Paidi Mou Grammata [My Child, Get an Education], Awarded four prizes at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival and the highest grossing film of the year.

Most of his extensive film productions have received awards in Greece and abroad. In addition, he has created two television series - EMMONES IDEES [Obsessions] and PERA APO TON ORIZONTA [Beyond the Horizon].

At the same time, he taught film courses in drama schools and artistic workshops such as film creation, interpretation of the actor in cinema, as well as animation in schools and artistic workshops. He made 15 short, animated films with his students, 12 of whom participated in the “Olympia Festival”.

Finally, he developed and taught film workshops in Athens and Loutraki, where he taught screenwriting, directing, and editing.

Together with his students he made eight short films. Three were awarded at the International Short Documentary Festival of Drama and the third at the Sofia International Festival of Bulgaria.

Two additional feature documentary films he made were awarded at the International Festivals of Chalkida and Ierapetra. Besides his many awards, his films have set box office records.

He has won a number of awards as director, scriptwriter, director of photography and animator. His movies apart from the awards, gained commercial success completing his efforts for artistic and commercial quality-success.