Education has been a defining thread running through Alex Pissios’ life. Chicago entrepreneur Alex Pissios’ father was an educator. Pissios originally planned to follow in his father’s footsteps, but life took him on another path. His passion for teaching, however, never went away, and he found new outlets for helping young people. He leveraged his business success to forge partnerships with…

Alex Pissios is proud of the thousands of jobs his work helped create in Chicago.

California and New York are the states most people think of when the conversation turns to film production. That makes sense, because they’re first and second in the nation for producing new movies and television shows. Despite the advantage coastal states have in the film industry, Illinois has become a…

Alex Pissios and his uncle Nick Mirkopoulos created Cinespace Chicago Film Studios in 2011, successfully making Chicago the “Hollywood of the Midwest.” Mirkopoulos and Pissios purchased 60 acres of the former Ryerson Steel site in North Lawndale and transformed it into the world’s largest independent film studio outside Los Angeles…

Alex Pissios understands all too well the shame and desperation that comes with having nothing. Pissios was doing quite well as a real estate developer in Chicago before 2009. Then the recession came, causing the real estate market and Pissios’ career to crash in a spectacular fashion. He had no…

If Alex Pissios’ life were made into a streaming video series or film, it would likely be a Horatio Alger myth mashup of Robert Altman and Frank Capra, with a little touch of Quentin Tarantino and My Big Fat Greek Wedding tossed in — and a heavy dollop of legendary…

Alex Pissios may have sold Cinespace Chicago a few months ago, but he’s still in the production game. One Golden Summer and Wizdom are two of his newest endeavors. After the pandemic stopped movie production in 2020, he’s happy to see it ramping up again in Chicago. An Alex Pissios Documentary About the Jackie Robinson West Little League Scandal Pissios is actively…

Originally published on: NewsAnyway Few people considered Chicago a big contributor to the film industry before Alex Pissios launched Cinespace in 2010. A dozen years later, Chicago vies with Hollywood and New York City for the number of films and TV shows produced there each year — and Alex Pissios…

There’s no better proof that the Windy City’s film industry was in deep-dish pizza trouble when the Oscar-winning 2002 film was filmed in — Toronto. But entrepreneur Alex Pissios is no stranger to rising from the ashes. After getting burned by the 2000s real estate crisis, Pissios bounced back by…