SPYROS TSIFTSIS
He was born in Athens in 1959 and studied Business Administration and Marketing in New Hampshire and Arkansas. Since May 1988, he has been working in the audiovisual field and has taught directing at a private institution in Athens. He has been responsible for film productions, directing, and editing of commercials, public service announcements, educational content, corporate videos, and exhibit videos for the “Foundation of the Hellenic World,” with significant contributions to the Foundation’s European Programs. He has directed and edited fiction series and documentaries for television. Additionally, he has produced, directed, and edited documentaries, short films, and video exhibitions His films have competed and been awarded at various festivals.
During the beta version of Gr2me we will show only the first 6-8 minutes of a feature film. The entire movie will be available via VoD after the official launch of the site.
For 35 years, since his first directorial performance of the “Bacchae”, Theodoros Terzopoulos is considered one of the theater’s great innovators, because of his radically groundbreaking scenic idiom.
The film follows Terzopoulos from the Greek village where he was born to a family of Greek refugees from the Black Sea, to the Berliner Ensemble, to Russia, China, the U.S., his theater base in Athens, and finally, to Delphi where it all begun.
CREDITS
SCREENPLAY: Spyros Tsiftsis
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Spyros Tsiftsis
EDITING: Spyros Tsiftsis
MUSIC: Michalis Tsiftsis
SOUND: Apostolos Daskagiannis
AWARDS
FESTIVAL ON ART (Poland)
Second best feature documentary film
WORLD FILM FESTIVAL (Singapore)
Artistic achievement prize
IERAPETRA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Third best Greek documentary, Best editing (Spyros Tsiftsis)
BOSTON INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
Official Selection
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL ART FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
GRECDOC FILM FESTIVAL (France)
Official Selection
L’ EUROPE AUTEUR DE L’ EUROPE (France)
Official Selection
BEIJING FILM FESTIVAL (China)
Official Selection
THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
REVIEWS
One last thing is… the greeting. This is how the man whose shocking portrait was my happiest premiere as a viewer at the online 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Theodoros Terzopoulos, ends his wonderful speech in front of the lens.
But greeting might be the first thing in this comment of mine on a cinematic ergo- and personal story about which the only reproach a viewer can formulate is that it does not give him the right to formulate any.
I salute, therefore, with all the aesthetic emotion that the film gave me (but also the other emotion, the deeper one, that the dedication of the film to Loukia Rikakis gave me) one of the best written, directed, photographed and edited cinematic portraits that I’ve ever seen.
ALL the work of ONE filmmaker, who had the sensitivity and gift to so creatively weave his respect for personality and appreciation into his model’s work. The surrogate readings of the mother’s letters are of unparalleled scriptural ingenuity.
Achilleas Kyriakides – Writer, Translator