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3rd London Greek Film Festival,  8-14 November 2010


ODYSSEUS AWARDS 2010
dedicated to the film artist's Odyssey
 
Odysseus Awards event: 15th November 2010
Venue and details regarding the event, will be announced on October.

- Best Fiction Feature Film
- Best Documentary
- Best Creative Documentary
- Best Short Film
- Best Experimental Film
- Best Video Art
- Best Animation
- Best Fiction Feature Script
- Best Short Script
- Audience Award (voting at the in-house screenings)
- www-Visitor choice (online voting: 1-13 November)

The members of the Jury will be announced on October.

Odysseus Awards are not accompanied by cash prize or founding.


ODYSSEUS AWARDS 2009

The Jury: Leon Herbert (director, filmmaker), Ann Kristine Glenster (producer, film financer, scriptwriter), Leda Papachatzi (programming manager, ANT1 Europe), Aris Vasiliadis (journalist), Sophie Papadopoulos (actress, producer).

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Best Fiction Feature Film

 

The last homecoming, directed by Corinna Avraamidou. Production: Avra Productions, Cyprus, 2008. Duration: 85’. (UK Premier). 

Best Documentary

 

The night Fernando Pessoa met Constantine Cavafy, directed by Stelios Charalampopoulos. Produced by Thanos Lambropoulos. Production: Periplus, Greek Film Centre, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT S.A.), GRAAL, Contracosta Producoes, Arctos, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, 2009. Duration: 90’. (UK Premier).

Best Creative Documentary

 

Kaptain Kemal, a comrade, directed by Fotos Lamprinos. Production: CL Productions, Greek Film Centre, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT S.A.), Greece, 2008. Duration: 72’. (UK Premier).

Best Short Film

 

Beware of bear, directed by Victoria Vellopoulou. Produced by Photini Economopoulou and Haris Padouvas. Production: Cinegram, Greece, 2008. Duration: 19.26’. (UK Premier).

Best Student Short

 

Love at first click, directed by Triantafillia Dimopoulou. Production: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009. Duration: 13.30’. (World Premier).

Best Video Art

 

2755 miles, directed by Janis Rafailidou. Production: independent, Greece, 2008. Duration: 15’. (UK Premier).

Best Animation

 

Recovered, directed by Alfredo Antonio Cozzi & Joe Efstathiou. Production: independent, UK, 2009. Duration: 3.23’. (World Premier).

Audience Award

 

Search thou not, directed by Nikos Giannikas. Production: @rteam, Greece, 2009. Duration: 11’. (UK Premier).

Audience Award

 

SpinaLonga, directed by Costas Athousakis. Production: Mitos Productions, Greece, 2007. Duration: 20’. (UK Premier).

www-Visitor choice

 

Mariza, directed by Constantine Krystallis. Production: independent, Australia / Greece, 2008. Duration: 4.24’. (UK Premier).

Best Fiction Feature Script

The First Casualty, by Paul Papadeas (USA). A political thriller / murder mystery that takes place in 1948 Salonika, Greece during the Greek Civil War. This is about the assassination of CBS Middle East Correspondent George Polk - who was a young, hotshot protégé of Edward R. Murrow. His death was said to have been the "first casualty" of the upcoming cold war and was never truly solved for political reasons. Today, journalists are awarded the coveted Polk award for bravery in journalism.  

 

Best Short Script

Two shoes on wheels, by Stefanos Mondelos (Greece)

One day, IGO, a habitant of the land ofWHOCARES and fan of tap-dance, buys his new tap-dance shoes, after having parked his car over a wheelchair ramp on the side of the road. With his brand-new shoes on, IGO will slide on the pavement and falling down; he will find himself in the “WHEELED REPUBLIC OF ICAN”, a community of disabled people moving around exclusively on wheelchairs. IGO’s difficulty to adapt himself in that society, which is created for the needs of the disabled, will force him to become aware of his egoistic attitude and his indifference towards the disabled and their problems that are intensified in a society created only for the non-disabled.

 


ODYSSEUS AWARDS 2008

The Jury: Ann Kristine Glenster (producer, film financer, scriptwriter), Leda Papachatzi (programming manager, ANT1 Europe), Chris Wright (director / editor - November Reels / November Films), Tassos Regios (Journalist / Film Critic), Alexandra Dyranis - Maounis (scriptwriter, script reader).

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Best Fiction Feature Film

 

Eduart. Directed by Angeliki Antoniou. Production: CL Productions (Athens), and Jost Hering Filme (Berlin). Co-production: Greek Film Centre, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Le Spot, Nova, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, ODEON, Angeliki Antoniou, 2006. 105 min. (UK Premier)
Best Documentary

 

Filming Dreams. Directed by Isidor John Leontis. Interviewee: Theo Angelopoulos, Willem Dafoe, Michele Picolli, Wim Wenders, Irene Jacob, Cristiane Paul. Producers: Nikos Bistinas, Marios Polyzogopoulos. Executive Producer: Maria Birbili. Production: Art in Vision Ltd, Greece, 2008. 65 min. (UK Premier)
Best Creative Documentary

 

This is London. 1939-2005. The Begging and the End. Directed by Aris Fatouros. On December 31st of 2005, the Greek Radio of BBC fell silent, after 66 years. Production: Hellenic Parliament TV, Greece, 2006. 28.18 min. (UK Premier)
Best Animation

 

The little mouse who wanted to touch a star. Directed by Panagiotis Rappas and Aggelos Rouvas.The film is adaptation a highly successful tale by Eugene Trivizas. Production: ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. and Time Lapse Pictures SA - Greece, 2007. 26 min. (UK Premier)
Best Short Film

 

Zafiris. Directed by Elena Dimitrakopoulou.  Production: Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. ERT SA, Kenan Akkawi - Greece, 2006. 19 min. 2006. (UK Premier)
Best Student Short

 

Peek a Boo. Directed by Christos Sitaridis. Independent Production, Greece, 2008, 16.43 min. (UK Premier)
Best Video Art

 

Video Art. UK Premier. Syeahskate 4: Sickness Greek Rollerblading Horror.  Arrostia (Sickness) is the latest video attempt from Syeahskate. Graphics, editing, filming, videography, makeup: Nick Kouros. Skating: SYEAHSKATE. Independent Production, Greece, 2008. 33 min. (UK Premier)
Best Concept

 

Kiss of Life. Directed by Nikos Zapatinas. Produced by: Harry Antonopoulos, Lily Papadopoulos. Associate Producer: Themos Anastasiades. Line Producer: Yiannis Iakovidis. Production: Village Productions Hellas S.A., Black Orange S.A., Greece, 2007. 100 min. (UK Premier)
Audience Award

 

An Unsuitable Boy. Short film. Directed by Lou Panteli. Independent Production. UK, 2008. 12 min. (World Premier)
www-Visitor choice

 

A life in the day of Panikos Hrisanthou. Documentary. Directed by Spyros Christofi and Goerge Kasolas. Independent Production, Cyprus and Greece, 2008. 25 min. (World Premier)

Best Fiction Feature Script

The Tree and The Swing, by Maria Douza 

ELENI (KARAPANOU), a surgeon – has been estranged from her father, KYRIAKOS (KARAPANOS) for over a decade – ever since she defied his wishes and left Greece to relocate to the UK.  Despite Eleni’s efforts, Kyriakos, a prideful man who raised his daughter alone, has never forgiven Eleni’s defiance and has refused to be part of her life and family in the UK.    One day, Eleni gets a note from him asking her to visit him - he won’t discuss the reasons over the phone. Kyriakos’ note comes at a moment where Eleni’s life is at a crossroads. Her husband HARRIS, also a doctor, has just been offered a prestigious job in Cape Town.  Eleni who has chosen to make England her home, hates the idea of a new uprooting. On the pretext of visiting her father, Eleni takes her nine year old daughter, ANNA, and comes to Greece. Uncertain about the future, Eleni wants Anna to be able to return to a “home” in Greece if she wants to.  What she really needs though is to find a way back “home” herself. But when she reaches Greece nothing she finds is as she expects.   Kyriakos has been harboring a few secrets of his own.   Set in the heavily loaded atmosphere of the Greek-Orthodox Easter, the story interweaves present reality, political history, and mythology in a modern tale about the relentless movement of people, repentance, acceptance and love.

 

Best Short Script

A Mellow Dusk, by Marina Koulouri

Death, appearing as a handsome young man, comes for a 20 year old girl and takes her away in his one-horse carriage, while the girl’s mother and women from her village lament. On the way to the cemetery, Death drives the girl through the grain field, where a couple in love dally with each other,  through the village, outside the school, the tavern, alongside Old-Theodor’s field. Life is vigorous everywhere they pass. The girl – unaware of her condition – at times watches the journey still and dreamy and at other times, she vainly tries to communicate with the living. Once reaching the cemetery, only then does the girl realize that she is dead and gasps with fear. Death puts her to sleep, before taking her in his arms to carry her to the grave. When morning comes, life goes on as usual in the village, where the girl’s soul travels through and is felt by those true at heart, children and lovers.

 

Judge's Choice

Rites of Winter, by Koula Sossiadis Kazista

“Rites of Winter” set against the backdrop of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the Greek Island of Cyprus, is the story of two proud, Greek brothers living in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Petro and Vasilli struggle to make a living together running their family sponge diving business, while jointly raising Petro’s young son, Costa. While Petro sinks deeper into a depression upon the death of his wife, Vasilli strikes up a relationship with a beautiful, educated Turkish woman, Lani. As violence escalates in Cyprus, tensions mount between Turkish and Greek immigrants in the predominantly Greek community of Tarpon Springs. Despite the obvious difficulties they face, Vasilli and Lani can’t help but fall deeper in love and decide to marry. Petro is unable to tolerate a Turkish woman in his family. He forces Vasilli out of the family business, and more devastatingly, cuts the young couple out of his and Costa’s life completely. The Greek-American community quickly follows suit. Shortly thereafter, Lani mysteriously disappears leaving Vasilli devastated. By following his heart, Vasilli’s life is painfully and irrevocably changed. Years later, the wounds remaining from the brothers' estranged relationship are reopened when Costa rekindles his relationship with Vasilli and discovers both a mentor and a trail of dark secrets surrounding Lani’s disappearance that must be brought to light before the brothers can ever hope to reconcile. Ultimately, Costa’s desire to leave his community with the aid of Vasilli unearths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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