All articles by Alexis Grivas – Page 6
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Greek crisis forces Thessaloniki to abandon cash prizes
The Thessaloniki Film Festival (Nov 2-11) has been forced to cancel this year’s cash prizes for its Alexander Awards.
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NewsHellenic Film Academy honours go to Unfair World, City of Children, Christmas Tango
Awards handed out amidst post-electoral uncertainties; Unfair World to be official Greek Oscar submission.
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FeaturesFrancophone film festival, Athens
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).
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NewsSchoeller’s The Minister awarded best film at the Athens 13th French-speaking film festival
Tony Gatlif, Remi Besancon, Michel Reilhac, and Athina Rachel Tsangaris were present at the event.
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NewsMariachi Gringo, Back To Stay win at busy Guadalajara
Festival sees record 100,000 paid admissions.
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NewsGuadalajara industry prize winners include Araujo's UIO, Duran's Daggers In The Sky
More than $315,000 in cash and services handed out in industry prizes.
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NewsGuadalajara launches with Mike Leigh presenting Another Year
Other guests will include Andy Garcia and Gabriel Retes.
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NewsFeelgood strikes distribution deal with Village Roadshow in Greece
Exclusive DVD and Blu-ray deals include Midnight in Paris [pictured] and Happy Feet 2.
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NewsGreece lowers shooting rates on ancient monuments
In a bid to attract foreign shoots, Greece is lowering rates on monuments including the Acropolis, as well as trying to cut red tape.
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NewsTheo Angelopoulos dies after road accident on shoot near Athens
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.
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NewsGreek box office down 7% in 2011; distributors try new measures during financial crisis
Greek acquisitions at EFM could be impacted by financial woes in the country.
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NewsTwilight Portrait wins Golden Alexander in Thessaloniki
Festival shows a strong 160+ films and shows little impact of Greek financial crisis.
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NewsThessaloniki industry award winners include Frantzis' Virus
Works in Progress award goes to Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You.
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NewsMysteries Of Lisbon wins top prize at Panorama of European Cinema
Late Chilean director Raul Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon was named best film at the 24th Panorama of European Cinema which wrapped yesterday.
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NewsDeneuve, Koch, Cleese start shoot for Greek film God Loves Caviar
Catherine Deneuve, Sebastian Koch and John Cleese are among the international cast of Yiannis Smaragdis’ God Loves Caviar, shooting in Greece.
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NewsThessaloniki to be bookended by The Descendants, Martha Marcy
Expected guests include Alexander Payne, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Mohammad Rasoulof, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Sara Driver, Ole Christian Madsen, Ulrich Seidl and Erden Kiral.
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NewsThessaloniki's Crossroads Co-Production Forum selects 17 projects
The Greek festival will offer 10 films as works in progress and there will be 250 international titles in Film Market.
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NewsThe Artist, A Separation bookend 17th Athens International Film Festival
Festival expands; 175 titles presented in a record fifteen different sections
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NewsThessaloniki's Agora Market expands to include Central Europe
Move comes as Balkan Fund strand will end.