Festival Jury
Festival Jury 2007
The members of the EMOTION PICTURES Jury are:
- Jean-Marie Drot: writer, poet, producer, film director, ex-Director of the Athens French Institute (1982-1984).
- Caglar Kimyoncu: disabled artist, co-founder and ex-Artistic Director of the London Disability Film Festival.
- Dimitrios Papadimitriou: music composer.
- Antonis Rellas: film director, citizen with disability.
- Eleni Moustaira: president of the Attica Cultural Company.
Jean-Marie Drot - CV
Jean-Marie Drot was born at Nancy in Lorainne. Author (novels and essays on art) and poet, he has been a screenplay-writer and director for French television since 1950. He has over 200 documentary films to his credit (series: “L’Art et les Hommes”, “Les Heures Chaudes de Montparnasse”, “Journaux de voyages”, “Le musée imaginaire d’André Malraux”) and has been awarded many and important prizes for his creations (GRAND PRIX at the Bergamo Festival, GRAND PRIX for directing at the Films d’Art Festival of the Centre G. Pompidou,GRAND PRIX of SCAM).
He served as Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy in Greece and Director of the French Institute at Athens (1982-1984), Director of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici (1985-1994) and President of SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia, 1995-1999). He speaks six languages: French, Greek, English, German, Spanish and Polish.
Caglar Kimyoncu - CV
Caglar Kimyoncu is a digital and video artist. For the past eight years, he has been focusing on collaborating with other artists using a variety of digital media, in projects which included website design, scenography, video and photo documentary, and script development. He is also a curator. In his role as Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the London Disability Film Festival, Caglar coordinated the festival for seven years.
He has a deep interest in alternative representations of excluded voices: voices perceived as "other" from a sexual, gender, disability or ethnic perspective. Caglar is also interested in working processes that challenge traditional structures With the support of an Artsadmin Bursary for Digital Artists, Caglar is currently developing an interactive web-based project based on the theme of power dynamics in sexual relationships, particularly within institutional settings.
Dimitrios Papadimitriou - CV
Born 1959, in Alexandria, Egypt. Since 2002 he is Director of the Third Programme of Greek State Radio (ERA). He attended classes in composition at Tanglewood (1993), studying with Henri Dutilleux, John Williams, George Pearl, Oliver Knussen and Steve Reich. Between 1979 and 1981, he was assistant to Manos Hadjidakis, in whose recordings he participated as a musician.
He plays classical guitar (teacher Evangelos Asimakopoulos) and has also taken lessons in piano and violin, as well as classes in composition with Valentino Patrikidis and Yannis Ioannidis.
He has composed symphonic music and chamber music, which has been performed repeatedly in Greece and abroad. He has written the score for 15 feature films, 24 theatrical productions and 11 television series. He is also the composer of the signature tune of several radio stations and television channels, such as ERT, ERA, Mega, 902 Left FM, Diesi, as well as for the start of transmission of the Olympic Games in Athens.
Compositions by Dimitris Padamitriou have been presented, among others, at the 2004 Olympic Games (international television signature tunes and opening music of the international television transmission: AOB, “Three to Countdown”), the Cutural Olympiad (Athens Concert Hall, Declaration of the Olympic Year by the Municipality of Athens, with international transmission), UNESCO, Paris (concert in memory of Melina Mercouri, organized by the Greek Embassy), the inauguration of the Library of Alexandria and in the Herodeion (works on the poems of Cavafy), Small Theatre of Epidauros (music for the theatre), the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Seiji Osawa Hall) at Tanglewood (Philoctetes and chamber music), the Musikverein in Vienna (1992).
He has recorded 20 discs (three platinum and one gold).
He has received 11 awards from the Thessaloniki Film Festival, five from the Ministry of Culture (music for the cinema award), the international prize at the Mostra, Valencia (2004), first prize at the International Festival of Films for Children (2001), the Arion award (twice) and the prize of the newspaper To Ethnos for music for television (twice).
Antonis Rellas - CV
He was born in Athens in 1971. In 1993, he graduated from the Lycourgos Stavrakos’ Hellenic Cinema and Television School with a diploma in film direction. In the same year, he lost his left leg and the ability to move his left arm in a traffic accident.
From 1990 to 2005, he worked in the field of television (Antenna Channel), initially as an assistant news director, as well as in informative and entertainment shows. From 1998-2005 he collaborated with the On Air Promotion/Trailer Department as director/editor.
He directed the short fiction film To karfi (‘The nail’/’The snitch’, 1992) and the documentary films Eime zontanos [I Am Alive] (1997), Egeou kymata [Waves of the Aegean] (2005) and Kallisti Thira [Beautiful Thera] (2006). The documentary film Waves of the Aegean earned a distinction at the 7th International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers (Best Mediterranean Film and Best Music Score awards). Then, after many showings all over Greece, the film was entered as Greece’s official entry in the competition section of the First International Paralympic Film Festival ‘Budapest Bridge’, held in Budapest in 2006, where it won the Best Photography award.
Several works by Antonis Rellas have been shown in Greece and abroad, as have his music videos, experimental videos, and digital visual works for theatrical and musical performances.
In April 2001, he attended a course in ‘digital image editing in AVID systems’ at the BBC Training Centre.
He served on the Board of the Panhellenic Union of Paraplegics and the Physically Challenged and the National Athletic Federation of the Disabled. He is a founding member of the ‘Spartacus’ disabled sports club.
Eleni Moustaira - CV
In 1992, Heleni Moustaira, herself an architect and musician, established the ATTIKI CULTURAL SOCIETY, so as to plan, produce, stage and present cultural events and productions both in Greece and abroad. Among her collaborators, are directors such asPeter Stein, Peter Greenaway, Peter Brook, Lina Wertmüller, Andrei Serban ,Tim Robbins, Robert Wilson, Patrice Chéreau, Francis Ford Coppola,and artists such as Misha Baryshnikov, Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Gérard Depardieu, Isabella Rosselini, Ivo Pogorelitch,Carole Armitage, Editta Gruberova, Michel Piccoli, Charlotte Rampling, Olympia Doukakis, Philip Glass et al.
Among the international productions, one may find the following:
Penthesileia by Heinrich Kleist, directed by Peter Stein, a co-production of Italy-Spain-Austria and Greece which premiered at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus; Monsters of Grace by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass; Faust, featuring Peter Stein as actor; Tierno Bokar by Peter Brook; Medea, directed by Peter Stein, produced and staged in the Ancient Greek Theatre of Syracuse; Oedipus Rex, Perséphone by Igor Stravinsky, performed by the San Carlo Opera House of Naples, featuring Gérard Depardieu, Isabella Rosselini etc.
In 2005, the ATTIKI CULTURAL SOCIETY inaugurated the international drama festival Theatre Beyond Limits, a privately organised and self-funded event, with the goal to establish a dialogue between the Greek audience and artists of international renown with varied cultural backgrounds. In 2007, Theatre Beyond Limits presented or will present productions and artists such as Charlotte Rampling , Bruce Myers , Peter Brook Sulayman Al-Bassam, Robert Wilson, Gérard Depardieu, and Fanny Ardant.
