Short Films Screenings
- “Left Right” (14′) by Stavros Raptis & Argyris Germanidis Greece, 2009
- “The Awesome Storm Man” (10′), by Angelos Spartalis, Greece, 2010
- “The Jumper And The Melon-Garden” (15′) by Nana Loukou, Greece, 2009
- “The Archelon Bubble” (30′) by Eleftherios Fylaktos, Greece, 2008
- “The Boy and the Tree”(26′) by Panagiotis Rappas, Greece, 2009
- “Kipseli” (29′) by Documentary team of Athens municipality’s cultural organism, Greece, 2009
- “Lilly” (5′) by Kyrinaios Papadimatos, Greece, 2008
- “Oblivion” (17′) by Gabriel Tzafkas, Greece, 2009
- “Love at First Sight” (1′) by Vasilis Tanos Greece, 2009
- “Forget Maldoror” (6′) by Symeon Karagavriilidis, Greece, 2009
- “Butterflies” (3′) by Elena Papanikolaou, Greece, 2009
- “The Stare of the Animal” (15′) by Angelos Panagou, Greece, 2008
“Left Right” (14′) by Stavros Raptis & Argyris Germanidis Greece, 2009
Composers
Direction & Script: Argiris Germanidis, Stavros Raptis
Cinematography: Nikos Voulgaris
Editor: Giannis Kolozis
Cast: Serafita Grigiriadou, Kostas Fillipoglou, Drosos Skotis
Production: ERT, Oxymoron Films
Sound: Xenofon Kontopoulos, Kostas Bokos
Music: Tania Giannouli
Summary
A man in pyjamas walks down a long corridor under the hum of a vacuum cleaner. He rings the bell of the neighboring apartment and waits for the door to open. A woman opens the door of her apartment and stands face to face with a stranger in pyjamas mumbling something about the walls. She slams the door at him. The man in pyjamas walks up the corridor back to his apartment only to find out that he has been locked outside his home. Two strangers who live in neighboring apartments end up spending a night together.
The director about his film: “Left Right” is a film about two people who live in neighbouring apartments without knowing each other and one minor incident will lead them to spend a night together .. It remains unknown whether they will meet again. What remains is the blurred memory of awkward meeting between strangers, who came from nowhere and will return back there.
Distribution: Oxymoron films (Argyris papadimitropoulos), Phiilellinon 4, Chalandri, Athens, Greece, Tel: +30 6972 71 23 78, Email: leftrightfilm@gmail.com
Biography
Argiris Germanidis was born in Athens in 1975. He studied Filmmaking, History of Science and Literature. He works as a scriptwriter. Stavros Raptis was born in Patras in 1976. He studied Filmmaking and works in Athens as a casting director. He also works as a programmer for Athens International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo.
Composers
Direction: Angelos Spartalis
Production: Wish you luck Film Productions
Music: Oblivion
Voice: Stratos Tzortzoglou
Sound design: Luc Messinezis
Make up: Mina Papadopoulou
Camera: Yorgos Paterakis
Assistant: Raphael Kominis
Cinematography: Angela Svoronou
Executive producer: Maria Svoronou
Summary
The awesome storm man is here! Battles are given in order to rebuild the relationships between environment, technology and society.
The director about his film: If there is no life on the other planets, we have a problem.
Biography
Angelos Spartalis (1973) is a painter. He grew up in Crete-Greece and in Dusseldorf-Germany. He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (Mech.Engineering-Aeronautics).He lives in Athens and in Aghios Nikolaos, Crete.
Filmography
2009: Wishes
2008: The Snow- White Syndrome
2007: The apple in your head
2006: The abduction of Europe
2005: A world made of tears
2004: The Net
Composers
Direction, Script: Nana Loucou
Production: Whiteroom, ERT SA
Director of Photography: Nikolas Potakis
Costume designer: Tatiana Souchoroukof
Production designer, Executive producer: Marinos Mulionis
Props: Dimitris Liapis
Summary
Redhead is a young man with exceptional physical abilities. He lives in a meadow with wild vegetation. He has befriended a gawk that he has tamed, and the bird follows him everywhere.
Every morning he goes to a small natural melon garden next to a deserted house and picks un melons. One day and imposing farmer comes along with his family and surrounds the house and the melon garden with barbed wire. However, redhead invades the property of the farmer and continues to pick up melons. A battle is about to start.
The director about her film: The jumper doesn’t want anything to belong to anyone and thats what he is fighting for. The farmer fights so everything belongs to himself. But the meanings keep changing and characters often reverse. This film talks about the ones who fight to be humans and for those who simply havent ever wanted to be one.
Distribution: Nana Loucou, Pyrsogiannis 26, Athens, Greece, Tel: +30 6949 38 37 68,
Email: zoaogrante@yahoo.gr
Summary
Every year volunteers from all over the world join the Archelon camps in order to monitor and protect the decreasing population of the caretta-caretta sea turtle in Greece. Archelon is the sea turtle protection society of Greece.
Biography
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1973. Studied Communication Arts at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, USA from 1991 to 1995. Have been working for ERT (Hellenic Radio Television) from 1997 to date. Have directed numerous products (corporate videos, tv magazines, news documentary programs, sports) for television, and private and public institutions. “The Archelon Bubble” is my first personal project. Living and working in Athens, Greece since 2003.
Filmography
2002-2005 Documentary series “Ta panta ree”
Composers
Production, Direction, Cinematography: Panagiotis Rappas
Ássociate producer: Uli Meyer
Original story: Eugene Trivizas
Adapted for the screening: Eugene Trivizas, Panagiotis Rappas
Music Composition: Dimitris Papadimitriou
Editing: Simos Magliveras
Sound: Antonis Delaportas
Production designe: Thanassis Tsitsikas
Summary
A ragged street boy makes friends with a neglected tree, struggling to survive on a dreary city pavement. In that way they escaped both the loneliness of urban life. One evening close to Christmas, the tree, having seen the splendidly trimmed Christmas trees standing in the windows of nearby houses, and longing to be as beautiful as they are, begs the boy to trim it too. But the boy has neither ornaments nor money to buy any?in fact he has nothing. How can he make this withered,?shriveled tree look beautiful, there in the middle of a filthy, freezing pavement? And yet this night will prove to be a very different night from every other. It will be a night when dreams come true, a night of enchantment and magic.
The director about his film: A tender fairy tale centered on the friendship between a withering and forlorn tree on the sidewalk and a homeless little boy. The film touches in a heart warming, humane manner issues such as: Desolation, Abandonment, Loneliness, The Urban Landscape as a source of Social Isolation, Nature and how we choose to disregard it, Basic survival needs such as hunger and shelter, for all those living on the margins of a society we take for granted. It hopes to show children what it means and feels like being on the other less fortunate person’s position, and despite of that do something meaningful which transforms in a positive way everything around us.
Distribution: ERT, Yannis Kollias, Mesogion 432, 15342, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece,
Tel: +30 210 607 57 11, Fax: +30 210 607 57 11, Email: ykollias@ert.gr
Biography
Panagiotis Rappas was born in the island of Hydra, Greece. He studied Painting, Engraving and Animation in Germany. In 1985 he began working in the animation industry, in Berlin and Munich getting experience in all aspects on the production process of an animated feature film. In 1989 when Steven Spielberg opened AMBLIN-Universal animation studio in London, he was one of the first-recruited artists. The same time he continues to work as a freelance animation director in various animated projects and television commercials in London’s West End. In 1995 he co-founded Stardust Pictures Ltd and acted as Producer and Creative Director of the projects undertaken by the company such as the acclaimed “1001 Nights” for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Oscar nominated animation short “The Periwig Maker”. Between 1998 and 2000 he moved to the United States to provide Storyboard, Layout Supervision and Sequence Direction on various projects for Paramount/Nickelodeon. In 1999 he co-founded Time Lapse Pictures in Los Angeles and in 2001 Time Lapse Pictures Hellas SA in Athens and he is acting to this day as Director of the company. Next to his animation work he did Stage Design for many Theatre plays and Illustrations for Children Books. Panagiotis Rappas is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science.
Festival – Screenings
52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Filmography
2008-9 The boy and the Tree
2006-7 The little mouse who wanted to touch a star
2004-5 The Fountain of Youth
2002-3 KETHEA
Summary
Vasiliki, young, poet and writer, bohemian figure of Tinos road. Mr Mimis lives in a truck with his dog. He decided to be nowhere, only a passer by. Lopez, a planet traveler and pilgrim of the stations of life. Troubadour of a refren at Ithakis and Drosopoulou corner. He forgot something, hopes to find it by singing. Mrs. Aristea bonded with the district on which she lives about thirty years. The old neoclassic villas reminded her wonderful youth. On her balconys pendulous garden she waters her flowers and on the gnarled pavement she smiles to the Africans that hang around a neighbour call office. At Kipseli, the fighters of existence walk step by step. The passersby recompose one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods on earth. Director for their film Cultural Organism Documentary team 2009 of Municipality of Athens was formed because of the Cultural Organism of Municipality of Athens documentary seminaries. People of different interests, ages, aspects united due to their love for cinema and especially documentary and dedicated the main part of their free time to know, understand and use the technical and expressive means of cinema creating the film “Kipseli” which is their first movie. We have to note that this film is a creation at all levels (scenery, direction, photography, production, performance, montage) of people who are amateur filmmakers.
Distribution: Cultural Organism of Municipality of Athens, Poulidis productions
Academias 50, Greece, Tel: 2103638138, Mobile: 6972833318, E-mail: poulidis2003@in.gr
Composers
Direction & Script: Kirinaios Papadimatos
Editing: Kirinaios Papadimatos
Sound: Renos Papastauros
Producer: Kirinaios Papadimatos
Actors: Nektaria Toulountzi, Aglaia Kododima
Summary
Lilly is not able to wake up from her nightmare. So what. Her little friend will be waiting for her to play, anyway..
The director about his film
A film almost entirely made of pictures.
Distribution: Kirinaios Papadimatos, Axariou 4, Vironas, Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 210 76 50 863, +30 6974 30 51 95, E-mail: renosrelos@hotmail.com
Biography
Kirineos Papadimatos was born in 1967 in Athens. He graduated from Hellenic Cinema and Television School “STAVRACOS” in 1990. Since then he works as a film editor for Greek cinema and TV. He has also directed several music videos.
Filmography
2008: Lilly
2006: Where to?
1991: The sun was too hot
Composers
Director: Gabriel Tzafka
Script: Nancy Spetsioti, Gabriel Tzafka
Cinematography: Mihalis Bouris
Editing: Ioanna Pojantzi
Sound: Ioanna Pojantzi
Design: Kostas Varipobiotis
Sets: Katerina Zoura, Stavroula Dokou
Costumes: Konstantina Kotzamani
Music: Nikos Veliotis
Production: Cinegram S.A., Ert S.A., Vassileios Skodras, Yiorgos Savoglou, Gabriel Tzafka
Cast: Periklis Bouyouklis, Yiorgos Kakanakis, Eftihia Yiakoumi, Yiannis Karaolis, Kalliopi Simou
Summary
Little Alexander lives with his father. Every day he looks forward to see his mother. Besides after the Great Disaster she is the only person that links him with the past.
Distribution: Vasilis Skodras, Kanari 66, Agios Dimitrios, 17343, Athens, Tel : +6937 41 93 83
E-mail: gabrielo90@yahoo.gr
Biography
Born in 1986. Inducted in the Film School of the Aristotle University in 2004 where he completed his film studies. In 2007 he cooperated with the National Theatre of Northern Greece for the theatrical show ” ÍÅDÁ”. In 2008 he worked as an assistant director in the film “Small Revolutions” by Kyriakos Katzourakis. He also participated in the Media’s international educational program “Four Corners”, in collaboration with talented seniors from European Film Schools, for films based on the co-production with the interbalkan film project ” THE SON”.
In 2010 he was selected from Berlinale Film Festival to participate at Berlinale Talent Campus.
Filmography
2009: Oblibion
2008: Fuggente
2007: Hari
Composers
Story, Direction, Animation, Editing: Vasilis Tanos
Music: Heaven, Ayumi Hamasaki
Supervising tutor: Stelios Polychronakis TEI of Athens, Department of Graphic Design
Summary
A pure innocent love is born, through the eyes of a little girl, when she falls in love with a boy from the facing flat block. The little boy is constantly dedicated at his computer screen, and he seems isolated from the outside world. The girl is trying vainly with different ways to draw the little boys attention
Will she finally manage to abstract him and draw his full attention?
The director about his film
This short animation movie called “Love At First Sight” is made to emphasize the withdrawal which is provoked by the new technological types of networking and communicating, to the human contact, through an innocent love story. The short movie is made by traditional types of animation, giving a romantic ambient, but the color editing is digitally processed. The influence of the Japanese Mangas is distinguished so in shapes as in facial expressions
Biography
Vasilis Tanos is born in 1984 at Schongau (Germany). He returned at his country of origin, Greece, in 2000. In 2005 he began studying at the Graphic Design Department of TEI (Technological Educational Institute) of Athens. He created his first short animation movie “Love At First Sight”, with the animation course’s assistance, which has been viewed for the very first time at the animation festival “Animasyros 2.0” in 2009.
Festival – Screenings
Animation Festival “Animasyros 2.0” , Greece 2009
Summary
Based on the book “Les Chants De Maldoror”. Six sections, six songs, words, dreams and inner sounds. This human race has no hope. The only future is chaos. Maldoror wants to forget him forever.
The director about his film
Second short project in two years. An amateur. He still uses black and white film in photography. He has no expectations. Just dreams.
Distribution: Karagavriilidis Simeon, Hlia Hliou 8, Greece, Tel: +30 23310 73583
E-mail: Simeon68@gmail.com
Biography
Born in 1968 at Veria city. He begin filming as an amateur at musical live events and he doesn’t consider himself as a director. He loves to take his bicycle everywhere with his Nikon camera, to hear music and to play with his two sons. The latest years he sees Darren Aronovsky’s «P» again and again.
Filmography
2009 Forget Maldoror
2009 Free As Angels
Composers
Animation, Story: Helena Papanikolaou
Music : Claude Debussy
Summary
Butterflies is a short film created by Helena Papanikolaou, a student of the Department of Grafic Design at T.E.I (Technological Educational Institute) in Athens, Greece. The film was created for the animation 3 course , with the traditional method of 2D animation, drawn frame by frame by hand. There were used colored pencils – aquarelles on transparent rice – paper. The story is about a usual incident happening in the life of butterflies during the day. It is a cycle – story , because it ends at the exact point where it began, something like the unstoppable orbit of the sun or the earth around itself or with each other. It implies the circles of life.
The director about her film
The director about her film Butterflies is my first animated short film lasting approximately 2 min.It was created for the animation 3 course of the Graphic Departmant at T.E.I. (Technological Educational Institute) of Athens,Greece. The procedure of creation involves the drawing of every frame by hand . I used coloured pencils – aquarrelles on semi – trasparent shits of rice – paper .The movement of each butterfly is specially designed therefore it took me about the whole semester to finish the project. The medium is difficult ,too, so I had to make a large number of drawings until to be satisfied with the exact frames. But, with the precious help of my proffessors in animation course,Stelios Polychronakis and Spyros Siakas, I completed the film on time.From this film I understood what is an animation film to its core,I learned about the pace , pause and synchronization between frames and sound, in order to have a nice aesthitic result.
Distribution: TEI Athens
Biography
Helena Papanikolaou was born in 1980. She is a book and album illustrator. She has completed the Graphic Design College of Plakas and has participated in many university group exhibitions. At the moment she is studying at T.E.I. (Technological Educational Institute ), Department of Graphic Design and she is working on her thesis project. Her thesis is based on 3D animation, specifically puppet animation. Following her graduation, she wishes to launch a professional career in 2D traditional and 3D animation. The animated short Butterflies has been projected at the Athens Video Art Festival 2009 and Animasyros 2.0 , 2009.
Summary
As he works, the painter Vassilis Stavrou makes mental trips to the place where his images originate. This film doesn’t endeavor to analyze his technique (a combination of painting and photography); rather, its an attempt to express the inner journey of his images from their place of origin, the little Greek village in Epirus where Stavrou grew up, to the finished canvas. The texts are a selection of the artist’s notes, intercut with excerpts from an old diary that his grandfather kept between 1922-1937. While in his diary his grandfather constantly refers to the struggle against nature to keep life going, the artist’s struggle consists in trying to achieve a more precise depiction of these primal images that accompany him while he works; images in which the “stare of the animal” is the main theme.
Distribution: REPO film, Angelos Panagou, Petsovou 7, Åksarhia, Athens
tel: +30 2105238436, mob. Tel:+ 30 6932587622, e-mail: panagou@ath.forthnet.gr
Biography
Angelos Panagou studied piano and music theory at the Greek Conservatoire, theatre at the Art theatre of Karolos Koun, and last direction at the academy of Eygenia Hatzikou. For many years he worked as a painter of sceneries, assistant director on theatre and cinema and also as a producer and director on commercial projects.
