Agora Market Manual 2010

Balkan Fund Projects51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualDIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHYHomeland, 201025 th International Film Critics’ Week – 67 th Venice FF 2010Rain, 2002, shortOberhausen Intl Film FestivalAix-en-Provence Intl Film FestivalDrama Intl Film FestivalThe Devouring Eyes, 2000, shortCannes Film Festival - CinefondationKarlovy Vary Intl Film FestivalUppsala Intl Film FestivalDIRECTOR’S CVSyllas Tzoumerkas was born in 1978. He studied film direction,theatre and acting in Athens, Utrecht and New York.He directed the awarded short films The Devouring Eyes (officialselection – Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation 2001,Jury Prize – Karlovy Vary Festival 2001) and Rain (Best ShortFilm – Greek State Awards 2002). He worked as a directorfor the TV-documentary shows Fakeli (2004-2007) andParaskinio (episode: Ezra Pound – I Wanted to Write Paradise,2004). As an actor, he participated in the devised theatreperformances The Narrator is Absent (Erasers, Geneva MappingFestival 2010) and Cinemascope (Blitz Ensemble, AthensFestival-Bios 2010). His first feature film, Homeland (2010),was selected to participate at the International Film Critics’Week of the 67 th Venice Film Festival.Syllas TzoumerkasScreenwriter / Directorpresent at BFPRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHYParadise in post-productionby Panayotis FafoutisHomeland, 201025 th Intl Film Critics’ Week – 67 th Venice Film FestivalCasus Belli, 2010, short67 th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti Competition33rd Intl Drama Film FestivalTale 52, 2008 - executive producerRotterdam Intl Film Festival’s Tiger Awards CompetitionToronto Intl Film Festival – Discovery SectionSao Paulo Intl Film FestivalPRODUCER’S PROFILEMaria Drandaki studied Communication and Cultural Managementand completed her studies in Cultural Studies &Cinema.As a producer she’s involved in the production of featureand short films by Greek emerging directors. She was executiveproducer in Alexis Alexiou’s feature debut Tale 52,which was invited in the official selection of Rotterdam InternationalFilm Festival’s Tiger Awards Competition, TorontoInternational Film Festival (Discovery Section), Sitges, CatalonianInternational Film Festival -Best Screenplay Awardin 2008 and a series of other film festivals.In 2008 she was the Greek Producer on the Move duringthe Cannes Film Festival.In 2010, she produced Homeland by Syllas Tzoumerkasand the short Casus Belli by Yorgos Zois, which were bothselected in Venice Film Festival (25 th International FilmCritics’ Week and Orizzonti Competition respectively).She is currently in post-production of the film Paradiseby Panayiotis Fafoutis.Previous Work available at the Film MarketHomeland 2010 is available at the Digital Video – LibraryMaria Drandaki, Producerpresent at BF25