Agora Market Manual 2010

Balkan Fund Projects51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualDIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHYHard Goodbyes: My Father, 2002Best Actor Award, Ecumenical Prize, Locarno Intl Film FestivalToronto Intl Film Festival - Discovery SectionPusan Intl Film FestivalLike Rain Like Hail, 1996, mediumBiarritz Intl Film FestivalEldorado, 1988, shortClermont - Ferrand Intl Short Film FestivalBest Short Film, Thessaloniki Intl Film FestivalMontpelier- Festival de Film des Femmes de CreteilDIRECTOR’S CVPenny Panayotopoulou was born in Athens and studied lawat the University of Athens and film directing at the StavrakosFilm School. From 1982 to 1985 she studied photographyand film directing at the Polytechnic of Central London (Universityof Westminster). Since 1986 she has been workingfree lance for the Hellenic Television producing and directingseries and cultural programs with a social and psychoanalyticalcontent. She has directed several award winningshorts and her first feature film Hard Goodbyes: My Father,was screened at the 55 th Locarno International Film Festivalwhere the film won the Best Actor Award and the EcumenicalPrize. She taught film direction at the University of Aristotleand the New York College of Athens as well as given lectureson Women Filmmakers in the Universities of Oklahoma andLos Angeles. She is currently developing her second featurefilm September which was selected at the MediterraneanFilm Institute and the Nipkow program.Penny PanayotopoulouScreenwriter / Directorpresent at BFWRITER’S CVKallia Papadaki has a BA in Economics (Bard College, AnnandaleNY) and an MA in Intl Economics and Finance,(GSIEF Brandeis University). She obtained her Film StudiesDegree, Stavrakos Film School in 2009. She has publishedseveral short stories and poems. In 2010 she was awardedbest newcomer author for her first novel The Backlot Sound(Polis Publications 2009). She is currently developing thefeature film September by Penny Panayotopoulou and attendedthe Mediterranean Film Institute seminars in 2009,and So Much for Love, co-written with Katerina Evangelakou& Nikos Panayotopoulos, selected by the Greek Film Centerfor scriptwriting development.Kallia Papadaki, Screenwriterpresent at BFPRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHYThe Hunter, 2010Berlin Film FestivalAjami, 2009Camera D’ Or - Special Distinction,Directors’ Forthnight - Cannes Film FestivalGolden Alexander, Thessaloniki Intl Film FestivalIrina Palm, 2007Berlin Film FestivalEuropean Film AwardThe Drummer, 2007Locarno Intl Film FestivalHong Kong Intl Film FestivalHard Goodbyes: My Father, 2002Best Actor Award, Ecumenical Prize, Locarno Intl Film FestivalToronto Intl Film Festival - Discovery SectionPusan Intl Film FestivalPRODUCER’S PROFILEThanassis Karathanos was born in Berlin in 1967. He receiveda Master’s Degree at the Panteion University of Athens inpolitical and social sciences. In December 1998 he establishedin Berlin the film production company Twenty TwentyVision. In June 2003 together with Karl Baumgartner heset up the film production company Pallas Film in Halle,Germany. Both companies produce feature films and documentaries.He is member of the German Film Academy andthe European Film Academy.Previous Work available at the Film MarketHard Goodbyes, My Father 2002 and El Dorado 1988are available at the Digital Video – LibraryThanassis Karathanos, Producerpresent at BF27