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West Virginia Labor History Association and South Charleston Museum to Present Christopher Janus' Goodbye Miss Fourth of July On Saturday, November 10th, 2007, at 7 PM The West Virginia Labor History Association in cooperation with The South Charleston Museum presented the film version of Christopher Xenopoulos Janus' autobiographical novel about growing up in a Greek-American family in Montgomery, WV, Goodbye Miss Fourth of July. Mr. Janus, a resident of Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, traveled to South Charleston to introduce the film personally. Read more. Film Review of The Journey: The Greek American Dream 'The Journey' captures images of Greeks balanced between the Old and New World. Maria Iliou's documentary The Journey: The Greek American Dream resurrects images and stories that had been scattered and buried by time. The resulting film, a collaboration with historian Alexander Kitroeff, is an ambitious project divided into three parts; the period of 1890-1920, when 400,000 Greeks immigrated to the US; 1920-1960, when Greeks settled into the New World; and finally, 1960-1980, the time marked by the children of immigrants consciously tackling their ethnic past. Read more. Production Begins on Cyprus Documentary; Island Nation a Forgotten Key to Mideast Peace Production began earlier this year on a new documentary about a mostly forgotten linchpin of Middle East peace - the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus which holds a key to the solution of the War on Terrorism and the unrest in the Middle East. "Cyprus: Still Divided" is being produced for national distribution in Fall 2007 by Veras Communications, Inc. (VCI) and presented on public TV by WTVS Detroit Public Television (DPTV). As production continues, interview excerpts and blogging will be available at cyprusdivided.com. In addition to the documentary, a separate discussion representing a variety of expert viewpoints will be taped and made available for public television stations. Read more. Hellenic Society Paideia of New Hampshire to Sponsor Presentation of Plato's The Apology of Socrates on 9 March 2007 Plato's The Apology of Socrates, is a one-man theatrical performance that reenacts Socrates' defense in the Athenian court and his rebuttals to a guilty verdict and sentence of death. This treatment transports the viewer from ancient times to our contemporary world, and in doing so reaffirms the relevance of Socrates' thoughts in today's society. Emmy Award winning actor, Yannis Simonides, along with Broadway Veteran director, Loukas Skipitaris, have presented the Apology throughout the United States and Greece to great acclaim. It was also recently performed at The United Nations and received a standing ovation. Read more [PDF file]. To view flyer [PDF], click here. Chicago Premiere of Award-Winning Play to Benefit the Hellenic Museum & Cultural Center "The Bed," a critically acclaimed and award-winning play by Chicago native son Nikos Vlachos, makes its Chicago premiere January 25 though February 25, 2007 to benefit the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center. A romantic journey of passion, pathos and serenity, "The Bed" chronicles the marriage between Joe and Sara Isaia. Read more. Extraordinary Film "11th Day" Tours US and Canada It's a film that Chase Brandon, a 30 year veteran operative of the CIA, has proclaimed “one of the greatest untold stories of World War II.” Columnist John Kass of the Chicago Tribune and Newsday rallied his readers to the Chicago premiere of this “stirring documentary,” telling them, “if you're interested in what fuels an insurgency--and the news is full of that today--you'll want to see this film.” The 11th Day chronicles the story of the men, women, and children of the Cretan civilian resistance movement and their relentless battle against Nazi occupation forces from 1941-1945—a battle which inspired Churchill to proclaim, “Until now, we knew that Greeks were fighting like heroes; from now on we shall say that the heroes fight like Greeks.”Read more. Representations of the Feminine in the Greek Crossover Films of Michael Cacoyannis and Jules Dassin By April Kallas Householder In the dominant narrative of modern Greece, there is no doubt that Greece is a woman. This role of women has been handed down through the classics, and can be studied in all forms of Greek literary and visual arts, including the cinema. This essay explores why these deep-seated myths about Greek nationhood seem to be tied to the feminine, and to examine how they have been articulated in the medium of film. What is the link between images of women and the Greek "crossover" films of the 1950s and early 60s by Michael Cacoyannis and Jules Dassin? How do these films influence perceptions of Greek culture and history, from an international perspective? Read more. |
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival Announces Award Winners The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival announced its award winners with Cypriot Panikos Chrysanthou’s Akamas as the winner of the Orpheus Award for Best Narrative Feature and Valerie Kontakos’s Who’s On First selected as the Best Documentary. A Special Jury Award was awarded to Dimitris Koutsiabasakos for his feature The Guardian’s Son. Read more. Critically Acclaimed Greek Theatre Productino Clytemnestra's Tears to Appear in NYC May-June 2007 Greek theatre production Clytemnestra’s Tears will be presented in New York this coming May under the auspices of Hellenic Culture Organization and the sponsorship of the Onassis Foundation. The production, which was originally presented in Athens and subsidized by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, played to full houses for a month and received critical acclaim. Clytemnestra's Tears is staged as a one-woman lamentation, based on a modern, yet universal view on the primal myth of the House of Atreus and the archetypical female character of Clytemnestra. Read more. Greek Box-Office Favorite, Politiki Kouzina, Shows in the U.S. Politiki Kouzina, also known as A Touch of Spice, takes place over a meal, while flashbacks reveal the story of Fanis Lakovidis and the real-life deportation of 30,000 Greeks from Istanbul, which we Greeks call Constantinople, in 1964. As a boy, Fanis learns about spices and other ingredients from his grandfather; he works as a cook, then an Astronomer. The film follows his journey back to his childhood home in Istanbul where he visits the grandfather he has not seen since the age of seven. Read complete release by Hellenic Business Network. A Casual Stroll in Bannockburn: Karanikas and Kokonis Team Up for Potential Film Nicholas D. Kokonis has written the acclaimed novel Arcadia, My Arcadia and Alexander Karanikas has finished a screenplay based upon the original work. Set in Arcadia, the novel dramatizes the personal odyssey of Angelos Vlahos, a bright village boy who struggles first to acquire a high school education and then to emigrate to America. Read more. Odysseus in America Documentary Now in Production The acclaimed book of Dr. Jonathan Shay--Odysseus in America--is now in production, according to Charles Berkowitz, a collaborator with Dr. Shay. In his book Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, psychiatrist Jonathan Shay reflects on the past to show the similarities between soldiers of ancient Greece and of veterans today. He examines Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey-written 2,700 years ago-and shows that combat veterans of modern wars share many of the same difficulties and behaviors as veterans of the Trojan War when they try to reenter civilian society. Read more. Greek Drama Goes High-Tech Theater and film come naturally to Greeks, raised in a culture that first developed drama many centuries ago amid stunning visual architecture and natural imagery. Kalomirakis transformed this love of the visual and dramatic into an award-winning career in the film industry. He turned his attention to the home theater industry after designing his own home theater, The Roxy. When his private theater had been unveiled and featured in The New York Times and USA Today, friends and enthusiasts asked him to create home theaters for them, too. And so, Theo Kalomirakis Theaters was born in 1989 serving a worldwide clientele. Read more. Award-Winning Greek Film, Hard Goodbyes: My Father, Opens in NYC HARD GOODBYES tells the story about a lonely and imaginative 10-year-old child in Athens, Elias Manolopoulos. He and his father love to embark on tales of the imagination. They derive particular joy from Jules Verne’s From Earth to the Moon. The two make a pact that they will watch together the televised broadcast of man’s landing on the moon. The year is 1969. But this nighttime promise will go unkept. And Elias must rely on their shared love of storytelling and the imagination to transcend the unimaginable. Read more.
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