LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL - ENJOY A DAY FULL OF EVENTS AND SCREENINGS!

GET YOUR DISCOUNTED GP AND  ATTEND THE FILMMAKER BREAKFAST Get your discounted   GOLD PASS for only $120 and attend the    Filmmaker Breakfastat Consul General of Greece Gregory Karahalios' residence, today at 10 am, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.  LAGFF hosts an unprecedented 33 visiting filmmakers who represent their films and IPDF projects. To reserve your GOLD PASS now, click here.

MEET THE FILMMAKERS Alexis Alexiou Director WEDNESDAY 04:45 (feature) Spiros Charalambous Director FOREVER YOUNG (short) Yianna Dellatolla Director BUTTERFLY (short) Limor Diamant Director NOTICED (short) Basile Doganis Director CITIZEN DAY (short) THEBES (IPDF Project) Andreas Ignatiou Director NARCISSA (short) Hüseyin Karabey Director HAMARAT APARTMENT (IPDF Project) Nikos Karamigios Producer NOTICED (short) Thanasis Karathanos Producer WEDNESDAY 04:45 (feature) Veselka Kiryakova Producer DORA (IPDF Project) Asteris Koutoulas Director RECYCLING MEDEA (doc) Nikolas Kyritsis Director SEVENTEEN (IPDF Project)   Nikolas Makris Director Piece of Sky (short) Nenad Mikalacki Director SATELLITES (IPDF Project) Tonia Mishiali Director LULLABY OF THE BUTTERFLY (short)   Argyris Papadimitropoulos Producer  AT HOME (feature) Arsenis Polymenopoulos Director IN THE ARENA (IPDF Project) Katerina Stergiopoulou Producer Dinner for Few (short)     Stavroula Toska Director BENEATH THE OLIVE TREE (doc) Nassos Vakalis Director Dinner for Few (short) Yiannis Veslemes Director NORWAY (feature) -My film work centers around the human being, his/her relationships, needs, and the importance of communication as well as the bridges that must exist between persons of different identity, language, race, religion. Through the acknowledgement and acceptance of emotions, such as understanding, love, compassion, we recognize the core of the human soul. Spiros Charalambous/FOREVER YOUNG -I became a filmmaker because it is the most natural and yet challenging way for me to express my ideas, fears and emotions. It is my art form. It holds the perfect balance between isolation and collaboration. Limor Diamant/NOTICED For the full festival schedule and tickets, click here.

FILM PICKS OF THE DAY   VOLTA, short, Greece, 2014, 11 min, LA Premiere Saturday, June 6, 5:00 PM, Egyptian/Rigler A heart-wrenching story of a mother and a daughter. Buy tickets here!   WEDNESDAY 04:45 (TETARTI 04:45) Greece/Germany/Israel, 2015, 116 min, West Coast Premiere Saturday, June 6, 7:30 PM - Egyptian/Rigler Athens, Greece, today: 32 hours in the life of Stelios Dimitrakopoulos, a small time night-club owner in Athens, who struggles to salvage his bankrupt business from loan-sharks, while the city and the whole country go up in flames. Filmmakers in attendance. Buy tickets here! PANAYIOTIS TETSIS: PLAYING WITH COLORS,documentary, Greece, 2014, 100 min, US Premiere Saturday, June 6,12:00 PM - Egyptian/Rigler The life and work of the artist Panagiotis Tetsis, who helped establish contemporary Greek painting of the 20th century, is highlighted and celebrated in this colorful documentary. Filmmaker in attendance. Buy tickets here! For the full festival schedule and tickets, click here.

ATTEND FREE INDUSTRY EVENTS  AND PITCH YOUR WEB CONTENT PROJECT!      On International Distribution - Industry Roundtable Saturday, June 6, 12:00 - 2:00 PM, Spielberg/Egyptian Theatre Free event, open to the public Join us for a discussion with leading distributors and sales agents on the current distribution trends and how the digital age is changing the game of International Distribution.  Open Floor Pitch June 6, 3:00 - 5:00 PM, Spielberg/Egyptian Theatre ITS NOT TOO LATE TO SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT PITCH FEE 15$ - Pay-Pal here! Web Content Pitch Application Form & Guest Release Open to the public - FREE George Strompolos, CEO, presents his work with Fullscreen.  To be followed by a high-energy web-series short pitch in front of a jury of leading web content producers. Creators have (3) minutes to pitch their ideas for episodic online content to a panel of judges and the audience. The first (15) proposals get priority (in order of submission). The remaining are placed on a waiting list. The Jury: Niccolo Bello Charles Como (Founder, Underground.net) Salil Mehta (President of Content Management, FOX) George Strompolos (CEO, Fullscreen) Each one of the judges will select their favorite project whose creator will receive a consultation with the judge who selected it. For the full festival schedule and tickets, click here.