Tmima Kinimatografou, Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis

He was born at Cairo of Egypt in 1956.He studied architecture at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (1973-1978). He did his postgraduate studies in Paris at DEA where he studied Urban Geography-Paris X Nanterre (1978-1980).

He worked as a freelance architect in works of public and private sector (1984-1993). He also worked as Assistant Set Designer of Savvas Haratsidis(1983-1987).

He taught Set Designing at the Drama School of Theatre of Art during 2003-2004.

He took part in the national representation at   Prague Quadrennial in 2003-10th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture (the national representation was organized by the Hellenic Centre of I.T.I in collaboration with the Faculty of Theatre and the Faculty of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

He was elected as Assistant Professor of Set and Costume Designing at the Faculty of Cinematography of the Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (June 2010).

He lives in Athens where he currently works as a set and costume designer and as an architect of theatre spaces.

In theatre  has collaborated with the Greek National Theatre, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Athens Festival, the Karolos Koun Art Theatre, the Athens Music Hall, the National Opera, the New Art Scene and many others on more than ninety productions, staged by acclaimed directors and choreographers like Thomas Moschopoulos, Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Mimis Kouyoumtzis, Stamatis Fassoulis,Victor Arditis, N.Milivojevic, Julia Pevsner, Michalis Reppas and Thanassis Papathanassiou, Charis Mandafounis and many others.

In cinema he was the production designer on the films:

• «Isimeria» by Nikos Kornilios 1991
• «Wind over the City» by Petros Sevastikoglou 1996
• «Back Door» by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos 1999
• «So Close..» by Stella Theodoraki 2002
• «Oxygen» by Reppas and Papathanassiou 2003
• «The Woman Is..» by Antonis Kafedjopoulos  2005
• «Strictly Permissible» by Reppas & Papathanassiou 2008
• «Three Moments» by Petros Sevastikoglou 2008
• «Ricordi mi» by Stella Theiodoraki 2009
• «Mikra Anglia» by P.Voulgaris 2013

and the short films:

• «The end» by V.Mazomenos 1990
• «The avenue» by Sev.Anagnostopoulou 2007
• « The attic» by M.Nikolakakis 2011

He received the award for production design for the film “Isimeria” in the 1991 Thessaloniki Film Festival and in 1996 the National Award for production design for the film “Wind over the City”

In television: 

• ‘’Grandpa is a liar’’ 2008 dir. N. Kavoukidis ERT‘’Channel
• ‘’Officer’s Beka’s Stories’’  2006 dir. G. Karadinakis-N. Kritikos  Alpha Channel
• ‘’Suddenly’’ 2004 dir. G. Sougias, Mega Channel
• ‘’Logo Timis’’ 1996 dir. L. Zaroutiadis, Mega Channel (Television Scenography Award of ‘’ ETHNOS’’ Newspaper)
• ‘’Postscript show’’ 1993 dir. K. Avgeris Seven X channel
• ‘’Red Thread’’ 1989 script: E. Fakinou, dir. K. Avgeris ERT channel
• ‘’Woman in Greek Literature’’ 1988 dir. K. Tomadaki-L. Makri ERT channel

Eleftheria Thanouli is Professor in Film Theory. Her research interests include the representation of history on film, film narratology, digital cinema, film and politics, and world cinema. She is the author of three monographs: Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (London: Wallflower Press, 2009), Wag the Dog: a Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013) and History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018) and A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling (Bloomsbury, 2023). She has also contributed chapters in key publications, such as The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory (London: Routledge, 2013), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013) and The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics (New York: Routledge, 2016). 

Publications

Books

• A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling (Bloomsbury, 2023)
• History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018)
• Wag the Dog: A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013)
• Post-classical cinema: An international poetics of film narration (London: Wallflower Press, 2009)

Articles in referred journals

• “A Nazi hero in Greek cinema: history and parapraxis in Kostas Manousakis’s Prodosia.” Journal of Greek Media & Culture 1.1 (2015): 63-77.

• ‘The prospects of a European independent cinema: new stakes and tactics in the era of globalization and new solutions’, Utopia, 91(Sep.-Oct. 2010): 165-178.
• ‘Art cinema’ narration today: Breaking down a wayward paradigm’, Scope, 14, (June 2009): 1-14.
• Orson Welles and Rouben Mamoulian: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?, Kinema, 30 (2008): 79-92.
• ‘Narration in World cinema: mapping the flows of formal exchange in the era of globalization’, New Cinemas, (January 2008), 6, 1: 5-16.
• ‘Post-classical narration: a new cinematic paradigm in contemporary cinema’, New Review of Film and Television Studies, (December 2006), 4, 3: 183-196.
• ‘World War II revisited: narration and representations of War in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line’, Kinema, 23, (2005): 45-60.
• ‘Hyperreal space and urban experiences in contemporary Greek cinema’, Cinema et Cie, no. 5, (October 2004): 100-6.

Chapters in edited volumes

• “Representing 9/11 in Hollywood cinema” in Yannis Tzioumakis and Claire Molloy (eds), 2016. The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics (New York: Routledge, 2016): 301-311.

• ‘Debating the Digital: Film and Reality in Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog’, στο Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog and John Richardson, The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, Oxford: Oxford UP (Υπό έκδοση)
• ‘Film style in Old Greek Cinema: the case of Dinos Dimopoulos’, in Yannis Tzioumakis and Lydia Papadimitriou (eds) (2012), Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities (London: Intellect).
• ‘The moving images in the digital era: Looking into the changes in the nature and form of the cinematic medium’ in Michalis Kokkonis, Grigoris Paschalidis and Philimon Bantimaroudis (eds), (2010), Digital Media: The culture of sound and spectacle, (Athens: Kritiki): 83-113.
• ‘To Be or Not to Be Post-Classical? That is the Question’ in Patricia Pisters, Jaap Kooijman and Wanda Strauven (eds) (2008), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam: Amsterdam U. P.): 218-228.
• ‘Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity. The new and the old in Oldboy’, in Warren Buckland (ed.) (2008), Puzzle films: Complex Storytelling in contemporary cinema (London: Blackwell): 217-232.

DIMITRIS THEODOROPOULOS, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Arts, Film Studies, Director of Technology & Aesthetics Laboratory of Audiovisual Media/TALAM, https://websites.auth.gr/etaomlab/, Director of Photography, GSC.

Studies: American Film Institute, Centre for Advanced Film & TV Studies MFA-Cinematography, on a FulbrightScholarship; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece, BA-Political Science.

Principal Investigator on three research projects:
• New technological advances in the development of lenses in digital cinematography, with the support of the
AUTH’s Research Committee research-code # 93384, 2016.
• Sound Imagery: music-acoustics and visual representations with the use of digital cinema techniques, with
the support of the John Latsis Foundation, research-code # 91966, through AUTH’s RC, 2015.
• Manipulating the image in digital cinematography, research-code # 90657, with the support of the AUTH’s
Research Committee, 2013.

Selected Filmography:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1387658/ & https://www.theodoropoulos.info/filmography.html
• Recent collaborations as Director of Photography include: the features, Sacrilege, Katerina Gogou
/Reinstating the black, Canteen, Small revolts, Niko Koundouros-Odysseys, Altamoura, Heart of the
beast, Alive at Kyttaron, Play it again Christos, Morally and Kicking, Cassianis’-psalm, I dreamt of
Greece. The shorts, L’ enfant promis, Fleury, Letters to Germany, Dry cleaning, Alina Hatson, Happy
life, Moving elements, The attic, Sound of the wave, The gift, Against the wall, Saturday night, The
doll, Ticket to ride, Guardian Angel, Cukoo, The waiters in the cafés, Burning Horizon, Hard machine.
The series, The sun always rises, From the palm’s ashes, Window in the sun, The Greek Jazz-Scene.
Selected at major international film festivals: 46th Festival de Cannes, 7th Ismailia International
Film Festival, 22nd Fajr International Film Festival, 8th Tehran International Film Festival, Zinebi45th International Festival οf Bilbao, X’-Otranto Film Fund International Festival, 4th Festival
Internacional ADF-LUMITON de Fotografía Cinematográfica, 15th Alpe Adria Cinema, 28th Festival
International du Film sur l’Art (Le FIFA), 27th Festival des Films du Monde Montréal, 9th Huston Film
Festival, 16th Sarasota Film Festival, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Dakino International Film
Festival, MOFFOM-International Festival of Music Films, OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival, World Arts
Film Festival, Sacramento International Film Festival, Julien Dubuque International Film Festival.
• As Director/Cinematographer: the documentary series, Greece and climate change, 2011,
cinematographer & co director, produced by ERT SA National Broadcasting Organisation (11 x 52’,
episodes); the documentary feature, Aphrodite’s child, 2013, (Super-35mm, HD, 80’, ResearchCinematography-Director-Coproducer). The documentary-shorts: 07-01-2011, the last rehearsal
(HD, 7’, Writer-Cinematographer-Director), selected and shown at the, 12th Documentary Festival
of Thessaloniki, Images of the 21st century, 2011, Chalkis Doc Fest-2011, Athens Video Art festival,
2011; Cello lesson (HD, 7’, Writer-Cinematographer-Director), was selected and shown at Chalkis
Doc Fest-2013 as well as at the 7th Avant-garde Festival of the Athens’ Cinémathèque-2013; Pianoplay, 35mm-Digital, 2014, 8th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival/Athens’ Cinémathèque-2014
(Writer-Cinematographer-Director).

Lighting Design:
https://www.theodoropoulos.info/lighting-design.html
• Recent collaborations include the stage plays, Yannis Ritsos’ La sonate au clair de lune, produced by IFA
(Institut Français d’ Athènes), Bredan Behan’s The hostage, Νiko Kazantzakis’ Captain Michalis; also
Fakebook, Spacetrain, Vermouth-songs & Indian summer. Other collaborations include, Steven
Sondheim’s Our song; the stage adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le petit prince. Architectural
lighting design for Aeschyleia-2003, an annual event for the city of Elefsina.

Authored a book on cinematography, The light on Greek cinema, 2009.

Panos Iossifelis is a Thessaloniki based screenwriter.  Beside his work in Film School, he taught screenwriting in Open University of Thessaloniki Municipality, in 1st Creative Writing programm of Western Macedonia University,  Ι.Ε.Κ AKMI (Thessaloniki) , in National School of Public Administration (Athens)  and in Workshops for Cinema in Education. Since 2009, he worked three times as a project supervisor  for  Master Degree  in Creative Writing, a section of the University of Western Macedonia.  He, also,  worked as a script editor in GRAFI, a program of the National Film Center.   In 2010 was a member of the jury in Balkan Fund and since 2006 he is member of the jury in screenwriting competition in Crash Fest. Besides his screenwriting work, he published two collections of short stories , Agria Paidia( Kapani, 2013),  Skoupidia (Odos Panos, 2003) and he is the author of the children books  To trigono pou egine paramythi and To paramythi pou den einai.  He is a member of Greek Writers Guild

Films

2013, Live Better, feature film. In pre- production.

2013, I epanastasi tou penthous,  feature film . In pre- production

2013, Love in the end, feature film (106΄)Clio Award, Branded Entertainment,  New York, 2013Cannes Lions Festival,  Branded Entertainment, Gold and Silver Award, Cannes 2013

2010 , Kanenas, feature film  (97΄).Official Competition of Seattle Film Festival, 2011.Audience Award, Thessaloniki Film festival, 2010.

2007, XXX – Live, short  film (14’).

2006, Narkes, short  film  (14’).Best short Film Award,  1st Greek Film Festival 2007, Los Angeles.Greek State Quality Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival ,2006.

2006, Moni sira margaritaria,  short  film (15’).Best short Film -Greek Film Critics Guild Award , Drama Film Festival,  2006.Greek State Quality Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2006.

2005, Prostasia, short  film (14’).Best short film award, Drama Film Festival, 2005Greek Film Center “Kinitro” Award,  Drama Film Festival, 2005Best short Film -Greek Film Critics Guild Award , Drama Film Festival,  2006.Best short film  – Greek State Quality Award , Thessaloniki Film Festival ,20052nd Best Fiction short film, Larissa Film Festival ,2006.

2005, the cut, short  film   (18’).Best Actress Award, Drama Film Festival, 2005Montage Award, Drama Film Festival, 2005Best Short Film – ΕΤΕΚΤ Award, Drama Festival, 2005Greek State Quality Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival ,2005.

2004, Cheap dayz, short  film  (17’).Best short film award, Naousa Festival, 2005Best short Film -Greek  Film Critics Guild Award , Drama Film Festival,  2004,Best short film – Independent Film Critics Award , Drama Film Festival,  2004Greek State Quality Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival ,2004.

2003, Τrikimia, short  film  (22’),Greek State Quality Award, Thessaloniki Film Festival ,2003.

2003, Ιzabel,  short  film   (19’),Greek Film Center “Kinitro” Award,  Drama Film Festival, 2003

Television

2010, 3ος Νomos, drama series , (Mega)script for four episodes.

2009-2008, Άgria Pedia, drama series (Mega), twenty episodes.

2008, Σe eida, drama series , (Alpha)script for  one episode.

2007, 10η Εntoli, drama series , (Alpha)script for eleven episodes.

Documentary.

2007, Thessaloniki Film Festival, documentary (60’).

2005, Makedonia – Thraki, Topoi kai anthropoi, documentary (15’).

2005, Equal , documentary series (ET3), script for two episodes.

2003, Thessaloniki EXPO 2008,  documentary  (20’).

Peter Salapatas was born in Australia.  Even though his first degree was in Pure Mathematics, obtained in Sydney he continued with a BFA in New York and an MFA in Film Production in Los Angeles (USC). He has worked in many countries as a director of Photography in feature films, documentaries and short films. Kamo in the Philippines (35mm), The Hidden Gift in Sudan, (DV) and continues to do so in Greece. The film Still Looking for Morphine (35mm) (directed by Yannis Fagras) won the Greek Critics’ Association Award in the 2001 Thessaloniki Film Festival.  The Forest Dances, a documentary which he shot and directed in 2005 won the audience award at the Platforma 2006 video festival in Athens. In 2008 he photographed Slaves to their Bonds (High Definition), a period drama feature film scheduled to be released late 2008. In 2008 he shot Forget me Not (35mm), Yannis Fagras’ second  feature film which takes place in New Orleans and Alaska. The film is in post-production.

Peter has taught cinematography at the LARW (Los Angeles Recording Workshop) in 1995 and is currently a lecturer of cinematography at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

In 2011-2012 he worked as a cinematographer for the documentary A Monk with a camera produced and directed by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara. The documentary was shot in Bodh Gaya, northern India at the Kalachakra initiation inaugurated by his holiness the Dalai Lama.

Studies Born in Athens in 1955, he simultaneously studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and Direction at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School . He has attended scriptwriting and production workshops and various seminars. He took part in the EU Media Programme “Sources” workshop with the script of his second feature, The man in grey. The script was analyzed on this occasion by Jan Fleischer. He also took part in the Mediterranean Film Institute script workshop with the scripts of two films, Eyes of Night and The Building Manager. Jan Fleischer acted as the script analyst on both occasions. He speaks English and French.

Creative Work Assistant Director: As an assistant director, 1976-1992, he worked with Giorgos Panousopoulos, Andreas Thomopoulos, Alexis Damianos, Takis Papagiannis and, above all, with Pantelis Voulgaris.

Documentaries Direction: He directed television documentaries for “There’s more to Greece than Athens”, “ERT (Greek State Television) in Northern Greece”, “ERT throughout Greece”, “Miniature portraits” and “Behind the Scenes”. In 2011, he wrote and directed a 13-episode documentary series for ERT entitled “I have met happy craftsmen”. In 2013, the centenary of the liberation of Kavala, he wrote and directed “Kavala: reflections of yesterday, metamorphoses of today”.

Short films:

• The cuff links (1980)
• Touch Typing (1983)
• Style (TV movie) (1987).

Feature-length films:

• Lefteris Dimakopoulos (1994)
• The Man in Grey  (1998)
• Eyes of Night  (2004)
• The Building Manager  (2009).
• Light Year (work in progress).

His shorts and feature-length films have won numerous awards at festivals in Greece and abroad, as well as Hellenic Ministry of Culture prizes.

Theatre Direction: He has directed for the theatre on two occasions:

• Michael Fais’ monologue Androgynous with Gerasimos Skiadaresis.
• Loula Anagnostakis’ monologue Blood red sky with Vaggelio Andreadaki.

Educational work He has taught in the Film Department at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since the department was founded in 2004: He taught classes in Direction and Coaching Actors between 2004 and 2008 under the provisions of Presidential Decree 407/80, which permits individuals with a professional rather than an academic involvement with their subject to teach in a university context. He was also responsible for numerous workshops during this period. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Film Direction in November 2008. He was given tenure in December 2012. He has taught the same classes and workshops since 2008. He has supervised graduation films and research projects along with a Ph.D. thesis.

He taught “The actor in front of the camera” for 4 years at the State Theatre of Northern Greece Drama School. He acted as a script analyst for many years in short film workshops held as part of ERT’s Microfilm programme. He has taught at the public College of Further Education in Haidari and in numerous private film and drama schools. He has participated in seminars, lecture series, international presentations of Greek cinema, and conferences. He has compiled notes on the subjects he teaches, and is preparing his first book for publication.

Administrative work He has sat—and sits—on: Various committees within the Film Department, Selection bodies and Diploma examination committees.

He was responsible for nominating Pantelis Voulgaris for the award of an honorary doctorate from the Department.

He was responsible for:

• The collaboration between the Department and the Greek Film Centre The Department’s participation in the Drama International Short Film Festival
• The meeting with the British author David Nicholls at the Thessaloniki International Book Fair 2013.
• The Mentors programme.
• Various events aimed at bringing work by students to a wider audience.

He accompanied students from the Department on the MFI script workshop.He has represented the Department on the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Senate.He sat on the Board of the “Centre for the Fine Arts and Letters”, 1994-1996, in which capacity he organized two script workshops and a film theory event.