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London Greek Film Festival
2009
videos
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Shooting
in Greece
30 October 2009
FREE Informational Networking Event
for UK and International producers
and directors!
Event supported by the
Greek National Tourism Organisation, London Office.
Honorary
award for the journalist and TV presenter
Bettany Hughes (centre)
by the Director
of the London Office of the Greek National Tourism
Organisation, Sophia Panayiotaki
(left) and,
the former Director of the
London Office
of the Greek National Tourism Organisation, Makis Peppas.
Over the last
50 years, Greece has been one of the most popular countries
for hosting international film productions. The first
foreign production ever filmed in Greece was The Boy on a
dolphin (1957); since then, almost 90 international movies
were filmed in cities, villages and landscapes of Greece.
Amongst these, very well known are Never on Sunday (1960),
The guns of Navarone (1961), Alexis Zorbas (1964), Topkapi
(1964), Fedora (1978), The Greek tycoon (1978), For your
eyes only (1981), Summer lovers (1982), Pascali’s island
(1988), Mediterraneo (1991), Captain Corelli’s mandolin
(2001), The Bourne Identity (2002), Lara Croft (2003) and
many more...
The event offered
free expert information on:
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The country (geography, administrative divisions, road/
airport networks, climate, etc).
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Greek companies dealing with production, post production,
special effects, subtitling, distribution, public relations,
etc).
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Services and equipment provided for both production
development and realization (helicopters, small aircraft,
car rental companies, casting and model companies, etc).
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Sites throughout Greece lending themselves to shooting
(archaeological sites, coasts, cities and traditional
villages, natural landscapes, etc).
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New films, production proposals submission and financing!
Speakers:
Sofia Panayiotaki
[Director, Greek National Tourism Organisation, London
Office]
Leon Herbert [director, filmmaker]
Bettany Hughes
[journalist]
Bruno Coppola [producer, director, filmmaker]
Haris Padouvas
[producer, President of Cinegram SA]
Photini Economopoulou
[producer]
Thanasis Gavos [jurnalist]
Live Greek Music by:
Nicos Shacolas:
singer-bouzouki player. An old school Londoner, one of
the most popular and successful performers of the
British ''golden bouzouki era''.
Pavlos Carvalho:
singer, bouzouki and baglama player from London. A Royal
College graduate and a bouzouki lover.
Pavlos IM,
a distinct singer from Greece who has performed
extensively in the UK and internationally.
Cigdem Aslan:
singer from Constantinople; sings Rebetiko and
traditional songs in Greek, Turkish, Kurdish, Ladino and
Balkan languages.
Peyman Heydarian,
an internationally known and award winning Santur player
from Iran who is also a music scientist and develops
computer programmes for music.
Noonie Minogue,
cellist and classical guitar player from the UK. A
multidimensional artist with a classical music training.
Olympia Tsarouhi,
a guitarist and music teacher with a background in Jazz,
Popular and Folk music.
Philip Arditti
- darbuka/toumberleki player; Philip brings the heart beat of Constantinople to
London!
Matina
Karastatira
- recorder player
ODYSSEUS AWARDS EVENING
1 November
2009
Spyros Diamantis, Director of the Press
Office of the Greek Embassy in London
A special evening, with special
guests, including among others (in
alphabetical order): Bruno
Coppola (producer, director, filmmaker),
Spyros Diamantis (Director of the Press Office, Greek
Embassy in London), Leon
Herbert (director, filmmaker) and,
Sofia Panayiotaki (Director of the London Office of the Greek National
Tourism Organisation).
The
LGFF Jury, audience and
www-visitors in our web site, decided for the best films
and scripts at the London Greek Film Festival 2009; an amazing night with
a great networking, the Odysseus Awards ceremony and the
fantastic guitar concert by
Dimitris
Dekavallas!
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