Agora Market Manual 2010

Balkan Fund Projects51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualDIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHYPlato´s Academy, 2009European Parliament LUX prize 2010 nomineeBest Actor Award, Ecumenical Prize and Youth prize,Locarno Intl Film Festival2nd Best Film, Spirit of Fire Intl Film FestivalMy Sweet Home, 2001Berlin Film Festival - Official CompetitionDIRECTOR’S CVBorn in Greece, lives since 1991 in Berlin. He studied businessadministration and he worked as photographer, director’sassistant, music supervisor and as radio producer. He studiedfilm direction at the German Film and Television Academy,Berlin. His short film Parlez-moi d´Amour, won the GoldenPrize of the German State and a Student film Oscar nomination.His first feature film, My Sweet Home was in the officialcompetition of Berlinale 2001.Filippos Tsitos, DirectorWRITER’S CVEffi Gavrilou has a BA in German Language and Literaturefrom the University of Athens, Greece. She has been workingas a script editor and script consultant since 2003. She isalso a screenwriting tutor and lecturer for various FilmSchools and educational programs. She has written shortfilms, TV pieces and her latest script Battle With the Saint afeature romantic comedy in now in development by BooProductions.Effi Gavrilou, Screenwriterpresent at BFPRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHYUnfair World (in production)by Filippos TsitosHarisma, 2010Seville Intl Film FestivalAthens Opening Nights Intl Film FestivalEvil in the Time of Heroes, 2010Edinburgh Intl Film FestivalToronto After Dark Film FestivalBrussels Intl Fantastic Film FestivalTale 52, 2008 – co-producerInternational Film Festival RotterdamBrussels International Fantastic Film FestivalShanghai International Film FestivalPRODUCER’S PROFILEAlexandra Boussiou has followed a number of careers veryseriously. She has worked as a trader in the Greek Stock Market,as an English teacher and as a professional singer to namesome. Singing is what got her closer to filmmaking. A lullabythat was chosen to be the main music theme of Tale 52 wasfatal. When the team of Evil in the Time of Heroes looked forsomeone to run their production, she was the one up for thetask. After Evil her first feature as a producer, Harisma, premieredin Athens in September 2010 and was theatricallydistributed in November 2010. She is now working with FilipposTsitos shooting a feature film Unfair World, while shehas another two feature films and a documentary in development.She is following the EAVE Workshop during 2010.Previous Work available at the Film MarketPlato’s Academy 2009 is availableat the Digital Video – LibraryAlexandra Boussiou, Producerpresent at BF29