11 May 2021 11:02am
The 15th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival is celebrating the breadth and depth of Greek Cinema today. The LAGFF virtual edition will offer New Greek Cinema with curated features, shorts, documentaries, animations on a secure platform accompanied by a host of webinars, live and pre-recorded Q&A sessions. Due to COVID-19, the festival will run on-demand only for this year from May 10 to May 30th. The virtual component allows this year’s Festival to reach a global audience.
With over 60 features, shorts, docs, and animated films, LAGFF 2021 is the largest online Greek Film Festival outside of Greece. LAGFF showcases new films from Greece and Cyprus and includes works by international filmmakers of Greek descent. The Festival promotes Greek cinema, cultural exchange and helps to bridge the gap between Greek filmmakers and Hollywood. Among the webinars to be announced and free of charge are a workshop pointing to a novel film set management approach with mediation p
By Gary M. Kramer–
There are still a few more days to watch films screening at the 18th Annual San Francisco Greek Film Festival, which ends April 25. The more than two dozen features, documentaries, and shorts are available online for free with a reservation. (Some geoblocking applies.) This year’s program offers four short films featuring gay and trans characters. Here is a rundown of what to watch.
Escaping the Fragile Planet, written and directed by Thanasis Tsimpinis, opens with a disclaimer that the short was made in July 2019, and any similarities to COVID-19 are purely coincidental. It soon becomes clear why. Two young men (Michail Tabakakis and Nikos Lekakis) meet when one enters a record store where the other worked. Outside, there is a lethal pink mist, and with no one having long to live, the guys spent the rest of their time on Earth together. Tsimpinis’s short is a charming, if brief, romance. The characters talk about their fears, eat plenty of junk food, and b
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