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Alexis Grivas

Alexis Grivas covers Greece for Screen.

Greece guest of honour at Cannes

2-May-2013
Nine young Greek producers selected to promote their projects at Cannes.
Athens Francophone Film Festival

16-Apr-2013
Photos from the 14th edition of the festival, which ran April 4-14.
Our Children wins at Athens Francophone festival

11-Apr-2013
Festival guests include Alexandre Desplat and Carole Bouquet.
Bird's Food wins Hellenic award

4-Apr-2013
Harsh criticism for the lack of state support for film production and the downgrading of the ministry of Culture.
Blood Brother wins at Thessaloniki

25-Mar-2013
The 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival-Images of the 21st Century (March 15-24) and its concurrent Doc Film Market drew to a close with a series of awards.
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

25-Mar-2013
The 15th edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival held its awards ceremony on Saturday [March 23], with Nikos Dayandas’ Little Land among the winners.
Clandestine Childhood wins at Guadalajara

12-Mar-2013
Benjamin Avila’s debut feature scooped the top prize in the Iberoamerican competition at the 28th Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG).
Guadalajara International Film Festival

11-Mar-2013
Photos from the 28th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, which ran March 1-9.
Zappelphillip (The Fidgeter) wins Grand Prize at FIPA

28-Jan-2013
German drama Zappelphillip (The Fidgeter) has won the Golden FIPA Grand Prize at the 26th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz.
Death of a Man in the Balkans wins Athens' 25th Panorama of European Cinema Festival

26-Nov-2012
Sandrine Bonnaire wins best director.
Tobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking wins at Thessaloniki

13-Nov-2012
Danish thriller A Hijacking (Kapringen) has won the Golden Alexander at the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Thessaloniki fest awards production prizes

12-Nov-2012
Female film-makers won top prizes at the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), where hefty sums were also handed to local productions by broadcaster ERT for the first time since 2010.
Holy Motors to kick off Thessaloniki

2-Nov-2012
Expected guests include Bahman Ghobadi, Aki Kaurismaki, Costa Gavras, Cristian Mungiu and Andreas Dresen.
Match Factory strikes co-production deal in Greece

8-Oct-2012
Match Factory head Michael Weber is to be co-producer and world sales agent on Greek auteur Yannis Economides’ as-yet-untitled next feature, which is set to start shooting early next year.
Greece submits Unfair World to Oscar race

5-Oct-2012
Philippos Tsitos’ Unfair World (Adikos kosmos) is the Greek submission to the Foreign Language Academy Award race.
Ursula Meier's Sister wins top prize in Athens

1-Oct-2012
Other winners include An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Una Noche, Teddy Bear and Searching for Sugar Man.
Athens festival kicks off today with 179-film programme

19-Sep-2012
Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone, starring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and rising Belgian star Matthias Schoenaerts, and Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild will bookend the 18th Athens International Film Festival-Cosmote.
Fortaleza festival

10-Jun-2012
Images from the 22nd Fortaleza Iberoamerican Film festival in northeastern Brazil (Ceara state). All photos by Rogerio Resende.
Fortaleza awards led by Violeta Went To Heaven

10-Jun-2012
Rat Fever, A Love Story, Bertsolari among other winners at the Brazilian festival.
Meirelles plans October start of shoot for Onassis film

6-Jun-2012
EXCLUSIVE: Fernando Meirelles says that Nemesis, his upcoming film about tycoon Aristotle Onassis, will start shooting for 10 weeks in October in Croatia, where location scouting is actually under way.
Greek crisis forces Thessaloniki to abandon cash prizes

1-Jun-2012
The Thessaloniki Film Festival (Nov 2-11) has been forced to cancel this year’s cash prizes for its Alexander Awards.
Hellenic Film Academy honours go to Unfair World, City of Children, Christmas Tango

8-May-2012
Awards handed out amidst post-electoral uncertainties; Unfair World to be official Greek Oscar submission.
Francophone film festival, Athens

2-Apr-2012
The Minister (L’Exercice de l’etat) by Pierre Schoeller was awarded best film at the 13th Athens French speaking film festival (March 21-28).
Schoeller’s The Minister awarded best film at the Athens 13th French-speaking film festival

29-Mar-2012
Tony Gatlif, Remi Besancon, Michel Reilhac, and Athina Rachel Tsangaris were present at the event.
Mariachi Gringo, Back To Stay win at busy Guadalajara

12-Mar-2012
Festival sees record 100,000 paid admissions.
Guadalajara industry prize winners include Araujo's UIO, Duran's Daggers In The Sky

8-Mar-2012
More than $315,000 in cash and services handed out in industry prizes.
Guadalajara launches with Mike Leigh presenting Another Year

2-Mar-2012
Other guests will include Andy Garcia and Gabriel Retes.
Feelgood strikes distribution deal with Village Roadshow in Greece

1-Mar-2012
Exclusive DVD and Blu-ray deals include Midnight in Paris [pictured] and Happy Feet 2.
Greece lowers shooting rates on ancient monuments

27-Feb-2012
In a bid to attract foreign shoots, Greece is lowering rates on monuments including the Acropolis, as well as trying to cut red tape.
Theo Angelopoulos dies after road accident on shoot near Athens

25-Jan-2012
The acclaimed Greek director died after sustaining severe injuries in a road accident on Tuesday evening (24) while shooting The Other Sea in Piraeus. He was 76.
Greek box office down 7% in 2011; distributors try new measures during financial crisis

23-Jan-2012
Greek acquisitions at EFM could be impacted by financial woes in the country.
Twilight Portrait wins Golden Alexander in Thessaloniki

14-Nov-2011
Festival shows a strong 160+ films and shows little impact of Greek financial crisis.
Thessaloniki industry award winners include Frantzis' Virus

13-Nov-2011
Works in Progress award goes to Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You.
Mysteries Of Lisbon wins top prize at Panorama of European Cinema

3-Nov-2011
Late Chilean director Raul Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon was named best film at the 24th Panorama of European Cinema which wrapped yesterday.
Deneuve, Koch, Cleese start shoot for Greek film God Loves Caviar

31-Oct-2011
Catherine Deneuve, Sebastian Koch and John Cleese are among the international cast of Yiannis Smaragdis’ God Loves Caviar, shooting in Greece.
Thessaloniki to be bookended by The Descendants, Martha Marcy

26-Oct-2011
Expected guests include Alexander Payne, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Mohammad Rasoulof, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Sara Driver, Ole Christian Madsen, Ulrich Seidl and Erden Kiral.
Thessaloniki's Crossroads Co-Production Forum selects 17 projects

18-Oct-2011
The Greek festival will offer 10 films as works in progress and there will be 250 international titles in Film Market.
Greece submits Attenberg for Oscar race

29-Sep-2011
Athina Rachel Tsangari directs.
The Artist, A Separation bookend 17th Athens International Film Festival

14-Sep-2011
Festival expands; 175 titles presented in a record fifteen different sections
Thessaloniki's Agora Market expands to include Central Europe

3-Jun-2011
Move comes as Balkan Fund strand will end.
Knifer wins big at Hellenic Film Academy awards

4-May-2011
Greek industry body supports Attenberg for next Oscar race.
Deneuve, Kusturica, Cardinale attend Athens French Speaking Film Festival

11-Apr-2011
Lily Sometimes takes jury prize for best film at 12th annual event.
Revamped Guadalajara fest hands out more than $320,000 in awards

4-Apr-2011
Guests at festival included Werner Herzog, Willem Dafoe, Guillermo Arriaga, Edward James Olmos and Eva Longoria.
Thessaloniki doc fest award winners include Tears of Gaza, Paradise Hotel

21-Mar-2011
The 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival-Images of the 21st Century and its concurrent Doc Film Market wrapped on Sunday, presenting a 220 title-strong selection across ten sections, an ample panorama of the situation in the documentaries field worldwide.
Sony takes on world home entertainment rights for God Loves Caviar

11-Mar-2011
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has acquired all media rights worldwide from Athens-based Alexandros Film for the upcoming Greek feature film God Loves Caviar (O theos agapaei to haviari) to be directed by Yannis Smaragdis.
Greek industry mostly welcomes new film law

12-Jan-2011
The move comes two and a half years after Costa Cavras was asked to head a commission to prepare the new law.
Romania's Outbound wins Golden Alexander in Thessaloniki

12-Dec-2010
Adverse weather conditions and the severe economic situation of the country did not manage to blackout the success of the 51st edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), the first under the new artistic director Dimitris Eipides.
Thessaloniki hands out more than $133,000 in industry prizes

7-Dec-2010
Cash awards go to Israeli, Croatian, Serbian, Turkish and Greek projects at the script development, co-production and works in progress sections of the Thessaloniki’s Agora/Market.
Thessaloniki kicks off first edition under new director Dimitri Eipides

3-Dec-2010
The 51st Thessaloniki international film festival (TIFF) kicks off today with the gala screening of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. It will wrap Dec 12 with Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.
Thessaloniki Film Festival celebrates Al-Daradji, Bier and Kędzierzawska

29-Nov-2010
The 51st International Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF) kicks off Dec 3, and in addition to its competition and side sections, it offers three main tributes.
Thessaloniki's Agora/Market to showcase 15 features, 11 works in progress

22-Nov-2010
Agora/Market, the film market strand of the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival-TIFF (Dec 3-12) is showcasing this year no less than 15 feature film projects and 11 works in progress introducing them to a network of financiers, producers and leading industry executives.
When We Leave wins top prize at Panorama of European Cinema

1-Nov-2010
Feo Aladag’s When We leave (Die Fremde) from Germany has scooped the best film award at the 23rd Panorama of European Cinema in Athens.
Honey, Somewhere bookend Greece's Panorama of European Cinema

21-Oct-2010
Semih Kaplanoglu’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Honey and Sofia Coppola’s Venice Golden Lion awarded Somewhere bookend the 23rdPanorama of European Cinema which opens in Athens today.
Thessaloniki selects 10 projects for Balkan Script Development Fund

18-Oct-2010
Dimitris Eipides, the new director of the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival-TIFF (December 3-12) has decided to go ahead with the Balkan Script Development Fund, one of the most eagerly awaited industry related strands of the event.
Dogtooth enters the Oscar race for Greece

28-Sep-2010
Giorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (Kynodontas) will represent Greece in this year’s Foreign Language Academy Awards race.
The Kids Are All Right opens 16th Athens Film Festival

16-Sep-2010
Lisa Cholodenko’s Sundance hit opens the Athens International Film Festival – Opening Nights today (September 16); the event secures record number of Greek films despite local film industry crisis.
New Greek talents triumph despite country's financial woes

12-Aug-2010
Confirming the rule that in times of crisis artistic production thrives, four Greek films will travel to the upcoming Venice film festival — overcoming financial crisis, internal industry feuding and lack of initiative by the Culture Ministry.
Dimitri Eipides named head of Thessaloniki International Film Festival

10-May-2010
Eipides gets approval for new later dates, December 3-11, 2010.
Dogtooth, Strella dominate Hellenic Film Academy's new awards

4-May-2010
Event is first public activity from HFA, founded by Filmmakers in the Mist protest movement.
Ashes and Blood, Oceans take honours at Athens Francophone Film Festival

26-Apr-2010
Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jane Birkin, Nana Mouscouri, Antoine de Caunes, Benoit Magimel, Anne Consigny, Riad Sattouf, Francois-Xavier Demaison among French delgation.
Gaultier, Reno, Birkin topline the 11th Athens Francophone Film Festival

15-Apr-2010
The French haute couture icon Jean-Paul Gaultier is the patron of the 11th Francophone Film Festival, which kicks off in Athens today [15].
Ajami and Medal Of Honor win at Thessaloniki as festival faces big changes in 2010

23-Nov-2009
Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti’s dynamic debut feature Ajami and Calin Netzer’s Romanian drama Medal Of Honour took the top prizes at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece on November 22.
Crossroads Co-Production Forum awards project prize to Marinovic's Pasqua

21-Nov-2009
Thessaloniki’s Crossroads Co-production Forum, headed by former Directors’ Fortnight chief Marie-Pierre Macia, presented the €10,000 Crossroads award to Ivan Marinovic’s project Pasqua.
Soul Kitchen and Wild Grass to bookend 50th Thessaloniki film festival

9-Nov-2009
Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen and Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) will bookend the 50th International Thessaloniki Film Festival, which opens on November 13.
Breillat’s Blue Beard takes best film at Greece’s European Cinema festival

2-Nov-2009
Pyramide Films’ Blue Beard (Barbe Bleu) by veteran French film-maker Catherine Breillat won the best film award at the 22nd Panorama of European Cinema Festival, which closed on November 1.
Village Roadshow sells Greek division for $74.9m

22-Oct-2009
Dimitris Kontominas, the media tycoon that acquired Village Roadshow’s Greek business earlier this month, has revealed plans to invest $30m (€20m) in the company over the next two years.
Slaves In Their Bonds gets Greek Oscar nod

8-Oct-2009
Slaves In Their Bonds, the comeback film of veteran director Tonis Lykouresis, has been selected as Greece’s official submission for the foreign language Academy Award.
Moon scoops Golden Athena as 15th Athens Film Festival wraps

30-Sep-2009
Moon, by UK director Duncan Jones, won the Golden Athena for best film at the 15th Athens International Film Festival on Sunday (September 27).
Balkan Script Development Fund selects 11 projects for 6th edition

24-Sep-2009
Eleven projects from have been selected for the upcoming 6th Balkan Script Development Fund, which runs November 14 – 16.
An Education, Broken Embraces bookend 15th Athens Film Festival

14-Sep-2009
Lone Scherfig’s An Education and Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces will bookend the 15th Athens International Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday (September 16).
Greek film-makers moot film week launch to rival Thessaloniki

8-Sep-2009
Greek film-makers are considering the launch of a new film week after voting to boycott the country’s state film awards and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Arthus-Bertrand claims biggest day and date release for Home

4-Jun-2009
Home, the environmental film from French film-maker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, will be launched across multi-platforms in 127 countries on June 5, in what it is claimed will be the biggest day and date film release.
Angelopoulos demands overhaul of Greek national film awards

14-May-2009
Filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos is threatening to boycott the Greek national film awards claiming that the current jury system is corrupt and biased.
Werner Herzog honoured by 50th Thessaloniki festival

4-May-2009
A tribute to the legendary German director Werner Herzog will be the centerpiece of this year’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
My Life in Ruins holds world premiere in Athens

3-Apr-2009
My Life in Ruins, produced by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s Playtone, is holding its world premiere in Athens two months before it launches in the US. It is thought to be the firsttime a Hollywood production backed by industry heavyweights has opened in Greece.
Aan Ja (Over There) receives the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki

24-Nov-2008
Aan Ja (Over There) by Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani received the Golden Alexander and $47,000 (Euros 37,000) at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Thessaloniki opens with The Wrestler

13-Nov-2008
The 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival opens today with Daren Aronofsky's The Wrestler as the opening gala film, which will be introduced by its star Evan Rachel Wood.
Greek distribution sector sees shakeups at Audiovisual, Odeon

6-Nov-2008
The Greek distribution scene has undergone a shakeup going into AFMincluding the recent appointment of Vassilis Alexiou as general managerof theatrical distribution and acquisitions at Audiovisual, the topname in the business which handles Disney and Sony product as well asnumerous independent pickups.Alexiou, who formerly ran theatrical distribution, comes in the wake ofthe resignation of the company's general director Thanos Veremis whoreturned to run his own production, ...
Expansion for Agora market at Thessaloniki

3-Nov-2008
The Agora film market at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival-TIFF (November 14-23) is expanding.The growth of the four-year-old market, run by Margarita Eliopoulou, follows a successful 2007 in which 36 films from South Eastern Europe obtained distribution in 18 different world territories.According to TIFF's director Despina Mouzaki '2007 saw an increase of 15% in the participation of foreign buyers. 283 films were granted backing towards distribution, ...
Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler to open 49th edition of Thessaloniki

30-Oct-2008
The Wrestler , winner of this year's Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, will open the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Friday, November 14th.
Four Nights With Anna is best film at European Cinema Festival

20-Oct-2008
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski's Polish-French co-production Four Nights With Anna, has won the best film award and $8,000 (Euros 6,000) at the 21st Panorama of European Cinema Festival in Athens.
Thessaloniki selects 15 projects for festival's co-production forum

13-Oct-2008
Fifteen projects from 11 countries have been chosen for the 3rd Crossroads Co-Production Forum at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) from Nov 14-23.
Thanos Anastopoulos' Diorthosi is Greek Oscar entry in policy switch

28-Sep-2008
Thanos Anastopoulos' second featureDiorthosi (Correction) is the Greek official submission for the foreign-language Academy Award.
Takeshi Kitano to be honoured atThessaloniki

21-Sep-2008
Takeshi Kitano will receive a life time achievement award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Entre Les Murs opens Athens International Film Festival

17-Sep-2008
The 14th Athens International Film Festival will open with a gala presentation of Laurent Cantet's Cannes 2008 Golden Palm winner Entre les Murs. Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky is the closing film. The festival line up boasts 153 titles in ten different sections and four tributes.
Balkan Script Development Fund announces project selection.

15-Sep-2008
Twelve projects from nine countries have been earmarked for the 6th Balkan Fund, Thessaloniki International Film Festival's Script Development Fund. The 49th edition of the festival will take place from Nov. 14-23.
Thessaloniki International Film Festival to honour Youssef Chahine

29-Aug-2008
An homage to a legendary figure of Arab cinema, Youssef Chahine, will be the centerpiece of a tribute to the cinema of Middle East organised by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November.The festival will screen the Egyptian master's classic film Alexandria Why' (Iskanderija ... lih') along with other recent films from directors from Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Cyprus.Chahine, who passed away last July, was born ...
Theo Angelopoulos pulls Dust of Time from Venice

28-Jul-2008
Just one day before theVenice Film Festival announces its line-up (Tuesday), one of the most eagerly-awaited world premieres, Theo Angelopoulos' Dust of Time has been pulled from the selection.The decision by the Greek auteur and his producers came after screenings slots could not be found that would have allowed leading actorsin the film to be present at the premiere. The film stars Willem Dafoe, Irene Jacob and Bruno Ganz.
Dardennes, Salles plan trips to November Thessaloniki festival

8-Jul-2008
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Terence Davies, Walter Salles, Gustavo Santaolalla, Lita Stantic are among the top names set to be present at the upcoming Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 14-23).
Greece - In search of Eden

4-Jul-2008
It was the subject matter of Eden Is West that lured Costa Gavras back to Greece. A drama about the impact of illegal immigration on Western Europe, the film is a road movie of sorts, starring Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio.
Trust takes on Zapas' Minor Freedoms from Greece

2-Jul-2008
Trust Film Sales has taken on world sales for Minor Freedoms, by up-and-coming Greek director and writer Costas Zapas.
Greek box-office admissions down 1m in pivotal winter season

27-Jun-2008
As the European football championships are drawing to a close and the Olympic Games (August 8-24) are around the corner, Greek distributors and exhibitors fear that sporting events could further dampen this year's box office performance. So far this year, Makis Diamantopoulos, generalmanager of the Odeon Cineplex exhibition chain describes demand as 'stable at low levels'.
Greece's Odeon sues newspaper over 'defamation' in film review

3-Jun-2008
The divide between critics and the film industry took an unprecedented turn in Greece this week as Manos Krezias, the head of the local production/distribution/exhibition powerhouse Odeon, filed a lawsuit against Giannis Zoumboulakis, film critic of the Athens daily newspaper To Vima as well as against Christos Memis, editorial director of the newspaper.
Greek box office up 5% thanks to local hits including El Greco

15-Jan-2008
The Greek box office registered a 5% rise during 2007 - up to 13.3m admissions from 12.9m in 2006, according to local experts.
Local box-office hit El Greco sweeps Greek State Cinema Awards

27-Nov-2007
Just a day after the wrap of the 48th Thessaloniki Film Festival - where, for the first time, Greek talent garnered the bulk of awards - more Greek films were honored during the Greek State Cinema Awards organized by the Culture Ministry in Thessaloniki.
Israel's The Policeman wins $15,000 co-production award

25-Nov-2007
Israelifilm The Policeman was the winner of the Crossroads co-production forum prizeat the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Balkan Fund selects four projects for $59,000 funding

20-Nov-2007
The Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has handed out its latest grants to four new projects.
Angelopoulos dusts off first English film with Willem Dafoe

20-Nov-2007
Theo Angelopoulos starts shooting today in the northern Russian city of Nizni Novgorod his new film, The Dust of Time, the second part of the trilogy undertaken three years ago with The Weeping Meadow.
Costa Gavras returns to Greece for 2008 shoot of Eden Is West

19-Nov-2007
Forty years after the Oscar-winning Z, the poignant account of the political turmoil in Greece during the 1960s, Costa Gavras is set to return to his native country to direct his next film structured as a French-Greek co-production.
Greece - History in the making

16-Nov-2007
Two unprecedented things recently took place at the ancient Acropolis of Athens. One was the transfer of the marble friezes of the Parthenon to the new museum at the foot of the Acropolis hill. The other was the shooting of the US production My Life In Ruins inside the historic site. No film has ever shot on the site except a short scene of Francis Ford Coppola's Life Without Zoe (part of New York Stories) which shot in the entrance of the Acropolis hill back in 1989.
Thessaloniki reveals 230 film line-up

5-Nov-2007
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 16-25)programmeis to feature230 plus films representing 40 nations accompanied by a major push in Film Market and co-production activities.
Ruins allowed in Acropolis as Greece entices foreign shoots

15-Oct-2007
This weekend saw the first film production in history given a permit to shoot inside the famed Acropolis in Athens. My Life In Ruins, produced by Playtone, stars Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame as a guide leading tourists through Greek archeological sites.
Athens gives Golden Athena for best film to Puenzo's XXY

2-Oct-2007
The Argentinian production XXY directed by Lucia Puenzo was named best film of the international competition at the 13th Athens International Film Festival (Opening Nights Conn-X) receiving the Golden Athena and a prize of $14,170(Euros 10,000) in cash handed out by the European Youth Jury formed by 11 young European cinephiles aged between 18-25.
Persepolis opens Athens International Film Festival

17-Sep-2007
The 13th Athens International Film Festival begins tomorrow night (Sept 19) with the gala presentation of Marjane Satrapi's and Vincent Paronnaud's French Oscar entry Persepolis.
Thessaloniki lands European premiere of Sayles' Honeydripper

16-Jul-2007
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival will host the European premiere of John Sayles' new film Honeydripper.The film is currently in the final stages of post production. Starring Danny Glover and Lisa Gay Hamilton, Honeydripper is about the origins of rockand roll in America's deep South. The director himself appears in a small part.The November festival - the 48th Thessaloniki ...
Thessaloniki competitors to include Jonas Cuaron's Year Of The Nail

28-Jun-2007
Thessaloniki Film Festival director Despina Mouzaki has announced the first films selected for the 14-film competition section of 46th edition of the event (Nov 16-25).
Palme d'Or Winner: Theo Angelopoulos

17-May-2007
Theo Angelopoulos' long association with Cannes came to a climax in 1998 when Eternity And A Day won the Palme d'Or. The award marked a decisive point in the Greek auteur's career as he was embarking on an ambitious trilogy spanning the 20th century, starting with The Weeping Meadow in 2004, followed by The Dust Of Times, due to start shooting in October 2007.
Guadalajara gives Ibero-American prize to Contrera's Blue Eyelids

3-Apr-2007
Mexican and Brazilian productions, most from first-time directors, swept the floor at the the 22nd Guadalajara International Film Festival during the awards ceremony on March 30. The ten different juries handed out a record-setting $1m in awards.
The 4th Regiment takes prize at Guadalajara co-production meetings

28-Mar-2007
The third Iberoamerican Co-production Meetings organized by the 22th Guadalajara International Film Festival wrapped here Tuesday.
Del Toro's 'Tres Amigos' question Mexican production incentives

22-Mar-2007
As Pan's Labyrinth took nine awards at last night's Ariel awards ceremony - the Mexican film industry's top awards - director Guillermo de Toro was already using his industry influence to petition the government with a proposal to amend the country's tax-shelter laws.
Guadalajara Film Festival to boast over $600,000 in cash awards

16-Mar-2007
Guillermo del Toro, Costa Gavras, Antonio Banderas, Viggo Mortensen and Nelson Perreira dos Santos are some of the celebrities who will attend the Guadalajara Film Festival (March 22-30), which boasts a strong Iberoamerican selection of no less than 140 full length and 106 shorts in its various strands.
Korean film picks up Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki

27-Nov-2006
Korean Kim Tae-yong's second film Family Ties (Gajokeui Tansaeng) won the Golden Alexander for best film at the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the $48,000 (37,000 Euros) cash prize.
Korean film picks up Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki

26-Nov-2006
KoreanKim Tae-yong's second film Family Ties (Gajokeui Tansaeng) won the Golden Alexander for best film at the 47thThessaloniki International Film Festival and the $48,000 (37,000 Euros) cashprize.
Balkan Fund development grants go to four features

21-Nov-2006
Thessaloniki announces record numbers of films

10-Nov-2006
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF- Nov 17-26) celebrates its 47th anniversary with a record 305 films from 44 countries, plus a major push into film market and co-production activities.
Scandinavia sweeps Greece's Opening Night awards

2-Oct-2006
Scandinavian productionstook top honours at Sunday's closing gala of the 12th Athens International FilmFestival-Opening Nights Conn-X, obtaining all three major awards.
Athens festival opens tonight with Volver

20-Sep-2006
Greek Film Centre sparks controversy with Haifa withdrawal

7-Aug-2006
In a move that has surprisedmany, the state-funded Greek Film Centre, which gives Greek film-makers fundsavailable for development, co-production and promotion, has decided to withdrawthe Greek films from the upcoming Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 7-14)in Israel.
Hopes high for end to funding chaos

5-May-2006
Greek film production has undergone a financingcrisis during the last couple of years - but amid the chaos several projects havemanaged to move forward.The underlying uncertainty has been causedby the same debate that has echoed across Europe; whether public funds should financefeature production.Under ...
New head named for Greek Film Centre

25-Apr-2006
Film producer George Papalios has been appointed tolead the state-subsidised Greek Film Centre (GFC), replacing novelist and screenwriter ThanassisValtinos.
Golden prize night ends groundbreaking Guadalarajara

2-Apr-2006
The 21stGuadalajara International Film Festival handed out a record $525,000 in prizemoney on a glittering awards night.TheGolden ...
Uruguayan project wins $300,000 award at Guadalajara

28-Mar-2006
Uruguayan film Eighteen Cigarettes and a Half (18 cigarillos y medio)was the first winner of the Tornasol award at the Guadalajara FIlm Festival.
Fortissimo buys world rights for Mexican feature

28-Mar-2006
Fortissimo`s Wouter Barendrecht has secured world sales outside the US for the Mexican feature Broken Sky (El cielodividido) at theGuadalajara International Film Festival. The deal was concluded after the Fortissimoco-chairman saw the film during its Mexican premiere in the event's officialsection.This ...
Carlos Saura's Iberia to open Guadalajara Film Festival

23-Mar-2006
The 21st edition of the Guadalajara Film Festival starts FridayMarch 24 with the gala presentation of Carlos Saura'sIberia.
Brisk business for close of Thessaloniki doc fest

20-Mar-2006
TheThessaloniki Documentary Festival-Images of the 21stCentury and its concurrent Doc FilmMarket wrapped over the weekend.
Debut feature film wins the Grand Prix-Golden FIPA

30-Jan-2006
Wega-Film production Mein Morder (MyMurderer), the debut feature of Austrian former documentary director and journalistElisabeth Scharang received the Grand Prix-Golden Fipa in the Fiction section of the 19th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz January24-29.
Greek company Audiovisual Enterprises buys Prooptiki

6-Jan-2006
Audiovisual Enterprises, the only publicly listed Greekentertainment media group, has bought out its rival Prooptiki.The acquisition worth $25.3m (21m Euros) places Audiovisual at the forefront oftheatrical distribution and further consolidates its lead position in video-DVDdistribution. Prooptiki's ...
Greek Sirens attract more admissions than Kong

27-Dec-2005
A stellar performance from local comedy Sirens in the Aegean has left Greece as the only European territory other than Italy in which King Kong failed to storm the box office.
Belgian takes top honours at Thessaloniki festival

28-Nov-2005
Belgian Fien Troch was awarded the Golden Alexanderand $43,000 (37,000 Euros) for Someone Else's Happiness (EenAnder Zijn Geluk) at the 46thThessaloniki International Film Festival.
46th Thessaloniki festival breaks all-time records

10-Nov-2005
The ThessalonikiInternational Film Festival has unveiled today its full line-up for this year'sevent (Nov 18-27).The festival celebratesits 46th anniversary with an all-time record number of 255 filmsrepresenting 42 nations.The event, the firstunder the new team ...
Happiness takes top honours at Athens festival

28-Sep-2005
Just days after winning theGolden Shell for Best Picture at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Czech-Germanco-production Something Like Hapiness (Sesti) directed by Bodhan Slamawas named best film at the 11th Athens International Film Festival-Opening Nights.
Athens festival kicks off with Costa Gavras' Axe

15-Sep-2005
Corraface named president of Thessaloniki festival

13-Sep-2005
Greek-French actor George Corraface(Giorgos Chorafas) has been named president of the Thessaloniki InternationalFilm Festival.
Greeks act to revitalise embattled box office

18-Aug-2005
Greekdistributors have agreed to move back film release dates to Thursdays in anattempt to revitalise the country's embattled local box office. Until now,Fridays have been the traditional opening day for films. The move takes effectfrom today (August 18). Admissionsin ...
Greek festival boosted by business among home distributors

28-Jun-2005
Greeks look to bed down tax financing initiative

20-Jun-2005
Launching a film financing initiative worth up to 30% ofa budget to attract foreign shoots is probably the best thing has ever happenedto the Greek film industry.
Melancholia spreads around the world

12-Apr-2005
Three Rooms Of Melancholia, the latest documentary byveteran Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo (Flame, Cannes 1980, TheFire-Eater, AFI Grand Prix 1998) emerged as the hottest title at theThessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Doc Film Market that wrapped hereyesterday.
Angelopoulos replaced as Thessaloniki president

1-Apr-2005
Thessaloniki International Film Festival president TheoAngelopoulos and artistic director Michel Demopoulos have been removed fromtheir posts.
Fonda to star in Leduc's El Cobrador

25-Mar-2005
A string of internationalproduction outfits have come together to finance the next film by Mexicandirector Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva)ElCobrador - In God We Trust, which stars Peter Fonda, isproduced by veteran Mexican producer Berta Navarro (Cronos, The Devil'sBackbone, Cronicas) through her Salamandra Productions outfit.
Blue Eyelids wins Guadalajara project market

22-Mar-2005
Mexican project Blue Eyelids (Parpados Azules) byErnesto Contreras, a former Berlinale Talent Campus participant, was named thewinner of the first Ibero-American Co-production Meeting at last week'sGuadalajara International Film Festival.
Magician conjures up top prize at Guadalajara

20-Mar-2005
The 20th Guadalajara International Film Festival wrapped onFriday night (March 18) with The Magician( El Mago), by first time director Jaime Aparicio, named bestfilm in the Mexican competition section.
Cannes to showcase Mexican cinema

10-Mar-2005
Cannes is to throw a spotlight on the Mexican film industryat this year's film festival (May 11-22).
British talent dominates FIPA prizes

24-Jan-2005
British talent swept the floor at the awards ceremony of the 18th FestivalInternational des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz, which is run by Cannes Directors'Fortnight founder Pierre Henri Delleau.The BBC Northern Ireland TV production Gunpowder, Treason andPlot, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, was awarded the Golden Fipa ...
Greek film industry faces Olympic cuts

10-Dec-2004
Director KyriakosKatzourakis and producer Costas Labropoulos make a perfect match.
Balkan funds back six new projects

7-Dec-2004
Six filmprojects have received backing for script development and co-production from the Thessaloniki based BalkanFund and the Sarajevo co-production Market-Cinelink. The news was announced atlast week's Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF).Fourprojects were granted Euros 10,000 each by the Balkan Fund, a TIFF scriptdevelopment initiative created in 2003.Theprojects are:- The Only Love Affair ...
Greeks rush to embrace Alexander

6-Dec-2004
Unlikeits limp performance in the US, Oliver Stone's Alexander has gone down a stormin the country that inspired the film - Greece.The filmopened in Greece this weekend and attracted 104,215 admissions nationwide on 85screens through local distributor Spentzos Film.Thestrong opening puts it on a par with hits such as Troy, Harry Potter, TheLord Of The Rings and local blockbusters Touch of Spice ...
Bitter Dream wins at Thessaloniki film festival

30-Nov-2004
Social conflict-themed pictures dominated the awards at the45th Thessaloniki International Film Festival which wrapped yesterday.
Thessaloniki unveils festival line-up

9-Nov-2004
TheThessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up for thisyear's event (Nov 19-28).
Fuse lights up Athens Panorama

18-Oct-2004
Bosniandirector Pjer Zalica's Fuse was awarded the main prize in thecompetition section at the 17th Panorama of European Cinema (Oct 1-14) inAthens which wrapped with a gala presentation of Ken Loach's Ae FondKiss.The award, offered by the organiser of the event,Athens daily newspaper Elefterotypia, includes apurse worth Euros 6,000 to back the local release of the picture.
Dealer hits jackpot at Athens festival

29-Sep-2004
Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's Dealer wasnamed best film at the 10th Athens International FilmFestival-Opening Nights which wrapped on Sept 27 with the out of competitiongala presentation of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.
Greece faces up to Olympic competition

13-Aug-2004
Greece's distribution sector has already decided on onewinner of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games - the event itself.
New Greek talent focuses on international market

4-Aug-2004
Veteran Greekdirector Theo Angelopoulos is probablythe only name internationallyrecognisable among his local peers. If the Greekfilm industry has any hope of making an impact in the internationalmarket this lies with a handful of new directors who have the means and thetalent required.
Greek industry looks for success in int'l markets

22-Mar-2004
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Holy Cross leads sweep of FIPA prizes by Brit shows

26-Jan-2004
British productions swept the floor at the awards ceremony of the 17th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz, run by former Cannes Quinzaine des Realisateurs director Pierre Henri Delleau.
Angelopoulos juggles pair of projects

20-Jan-2004
Theo Angelopoulos - whose latest film Trilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow will screen in competition at next month's Berlinale - is preparing to shoot his next film.
Touch Of Spice eyes landmark box office haul

12-Dec-2003
Greek hit Touch Of Spice looks set to pass the landmark one million admissions mark at the local box office.
Russian Train rides off with Thessaloniki prizes

2-Dec-2003
Russian feature The Last Train (Posledniy Poezd) by Alexei German, Jr swept the floor at the 44th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 21-30).
Balkan Fund hands out script grants at Thessaloniki

26-Nov-2003
Four film projects from four southeastern European countries have received the first grants to be handed out by the Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF).
44th Thessaloniki festival announces line-up

13-Nov-2003
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled today the full line-up of its 44th edition.
Greek multiplex expansion plans in jeopardy

2-Oct-2003
The future expansion of multiplexes in Greece is in jeopardy following a legal dispute between country's Exhibitors Federation and the builders of a 10-screen new multiplex in the central Athens residential district of Ambelokipi.
Coppola's Lost translates into Athens prize

22-Sep-2003
Sofia Coppola's second directorial outing, Lost In Translation, was named best film at the 9th Athens International Film Festival-Opening Nights which wrapped on Sept 21 with the out of competition gala presentation of Stephen Norrington's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Greek film-makers face Olympic hurdle

18-Jul-2003
With the Athens 2004 Olympic Games fast approaching, a palpable sense of excitement is growing around the event in Greece - as well as a scramble to get the country's athletics and transport infrastructure ready in time.
Euro film bodies lobby Commission for more ambitious vision

29-May-2003
European film councils this week called on the European Commission to adopt a more ambitious vision for the European film industry and to include it in the new EU constitution currently being considered by member states.
Two Greek films share Thessaloniki documentary prize

11-Mar-2003
Two Greek documentaries, Men At Sea by Katerina Patroni and Are There Any Lions In Greece by Irina Boiko shared the top prize in the first competitive event for Greek films at the fifth Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Feb 28-March 9).
43rd Thessaloniki film festival fetes Asian films

19-Nov-2002
Women directors and themes of family relations, censorship, racial and social intolerance dominated in the 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival which wrapped today. Asian films stood out in the competition section, which was restricted to first or second films.
Asian films take top prizes at Thessaloniki

19-Nov-2002
Women directors and themes of family relations, censorship, racial and social intolerance dominated in the 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival which wrapped today. Asian films stood out in the competition section, which was restricted to first or second films.
Thessaloniki festival unveils 160 strong film line-up

31-Oct-2002
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has unveiled its full line-up for its 43rd edition, and will present over 160 films as well as workshops and exhibitions.
Paradox Lake wins Athens festival

20-Sep-2002
International appeal to save Buenos Aires festival

17-Mar-2002
Jacques Gerber, assistant programmer of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, has announced the Quinzaine's intention to launch an international appeal to rescue the Buenos Aires Independent Cinema International Festival, which has lost 80% of its funding.
Angelopoulos to start on Greece's biggest movie

30-Jan-2002
Greek director Theo Angelopoulos will next week commence shooting on The Weeping Field, the first part of his long planned, seven-hour trilogy that tells the story of a couple during the twentieth century.
Dunaway, Boorman, Haneke head for Thessaloniki

1-Nov-2001
Faye Dunaway, John Boorman, Michael Haneke, Stanley Kwan and Mohsen Makhmalbaf are amongst the guests attending this month's Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Warner Village tests Greek co-production

21-Sep-2001
Warner- Village Roadshow's first ever Greek co-production, the satirical comedy, Crying, A Blessing From Paradise will be a crucial test for local titles' box office potential, when it is released on Oct 26.
Brazilero to open Athens film festival

23-Jul-2001
One of the most eagerly awaited Greek films of the year, Brazilero will open Athens' 7th edition as a world premiere. The quirky comedy with socio-political undertones is directed by Sotiris Goritsas, whose most recent film Balkanizateur was a critical and a box office success for local distributor Rosebud.
Romance ruling hints at Cypriot censor relaxation

14-Jun-2001
After a seven-month trial, Cypriot exhibitor Michael Papas has been cleared of charges of exhibiting a film banned by the Cyprus Censorship Committee, Catherine Breillat's controversial Romance.
Mexican heat rises as Warner grabs Guadalajara hit

22-Mar-2001
Warner-Videocine has swooped on De La Calle, the latest title from the explosive Mexican cinema scene to set its sights on repeating the success of Academy Award nominee Amores Perros.
Last Resort takes top honours at Thessaloniki

20-Nov-2000
BBC production Last Resort, directed by Polish-born UK resident Pavel Pawlikowski, picked up the top three awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Sunday, including the Golden Alexander for best picture, backed by a $31,000 (DR12.5m) purse.
Arctic Circle wins Athens and local distribution

18-Sep-2000
Julio Medem's The Lovers Of The Arctic Circle (Los Amantes Del Circulo Polar) secured the main prize at the Athens International Film Festival - and local distribution through Greek distributor Rosebud in a deal cut at the festival.
Allen, Frears titles to get airing at Athens

10-Aug-2000
Production report: Greek comedy wins local hearts

22-Jun-2000
Greek films have been performing strongly at the local box office this year, pulling in more than 2.5 million admissions - a five-fold increase over last year - and are poised to reach three million during the summer season, when open-air cinemas rerun recent films plus a few new releases. Admissions for the 1999-2000 season are expected to total 14 million.
Greek film gets exhibition boost from GFC

19-Jun-2000
Responding to the recent spectacular growth of local film, The Greek Film Centre (GFC) is launching a scheme - Film Centre 2000 - designed to secure more exhibition slots for domestic productions.
Balkan countries team up for promotional network

13-Apr-2000
Film institutes from 11 Balkan and Southeast European countries are banding together to launch a pan-regional promotional body, dubbed the Network of Southeastern European Cinema Institutions (NSECI).
Greece's OTE, ERT plan digital platform

29-Mar-2000
Greek telco OTE plans to launch a digital satellite platform in partnership with public broadcaster ERT and private broadcaster and media concern Alpha Digital.

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