Η Αθήνα θεωρείται το hot spot που θα εστιάσει την προσοχή του το φημισμένο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου του Τορόντο.
Στην Αθήνα θα εστιάσει το πρόγραμμα City to City στο 38ο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου του Τορόντο, το οποίο θα διεξαχθεί τον προσεχή Σεπτέμβριο, μετέδωσαν καναδικά μέσα ενημέρωσης.
«Θέλουμε να συστήσουμε το κοινό μας σε νέες γενιές κινηματογραφιστών που δεν φοβούνται να ξαναγράψουν τους κανόνες. Οταν αρχίσαμε να σκεφτόμαστε σχετικά με τις πρωτότυπες ταινίες που πρόσφατα αναδύθηκαν από αυτήν την αρχαία και σύγχρονη πόλη, η τέλεια επιλογή για μας φέτος ήταν η Αθήνα», δήλωσε την Τετάρτη ο Κάμερον Μπέιλι, καλλιτεχνικός διευθυντής του φημισμένου κινηματογραφικού φεστιβάλ.
Η επιλογή της Αθήνας έγινε από τον Κάμερον Μπέιλι και τον Δημήτρη Εϊπίδη, υπεύθυνο του διεθνούς προγράμματος του Φεστιβάλ του Τορόντο. «Μετά από μια περίοδο χειμερίας νάρκης, το ελληνικό σινεμά βρήκε τελικά το δρόμο της επιστροφής στο προσκήνιο. Μια σειρά νεαρών κινηματογραφιστών — με τους περισσότερους από αυτούς να έχουν μόλις τελειώσει τη σχολή κινηματογράφου ή, στην καλύτερη περίπτωση, με μια-δυο ταινίες μικρού μήκους στο βιογραφικό τους — έχουν φέρει τα πάνω κάτω. Εκεί όπου οι άλλοι έβλεπαν απόγνωση, εκείνοι έβλεπαν έμπνευση».
Οπως σημειώνει ο ελληνικός ιστότοπος για την Εβδομη Τέχνη flix.gr, αυτή είναι η πέμπτη χρονιά για το πρόγραμμα City to City στο Τορόντο. Το πρόγραμμα προβάλλει κινηματογραφιστές που ζουν και εργάζονται σε μια επιλεγμένη πόλη, ανεξάρτητα από το πού γυρίζονται οι ταινίες τους. Ανάμεσα στις πόλεις που προβλήθηκαν σε παλαιότερα προγράμματα είναι το Τελ Αβίβ, η Κωνσταντινούπολη, το Μπουένος Αϊρες και η Βομβάη.
Στην επίσημη ιστοσελίδα του Φεστιβάλ του Τορόντο, τo City to City αναφέρεται ως πρόγραμμα «που φέρνει στο κοινό πόλεις του κόσμου – μια εικόνα του πιο καυτού μέρους τώρα».
Τον Ιούλιο θα ανακοινωθεί το πρόγραμμα του City to City, οπότε και θα γίνει γνωστό ποιες ελληνικές ταινίες θα συμμετάσχουν.
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TIFF taps Athens for City to City spotlight
Film festival to spotlight young directors reviving troubled nation's cinema
CBC News
Posted: May 8, 2013 1:07 PM ET
Last Updated: May 8, 2013 2:18 PM ET
A woman holds Greek and small Cypriot flags
during a May 1 rally in front of the Parliament in Athens. The Greek
capital is the focus of TIFF's 2013 City to City program, inspired by
young filmmakers who have reinvigorated the troubled country's movie
scene. (Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press)
City to City, the Toronto International Film Festival program that
highlights one "cinematic hotspot" a year, will turn its spotlight on
Athens this fall.
The Greek capital was unveiled as this year's choice by TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey and TIFF international programmer Dimitri Eipides on Wednesday.
"We want to introduce our audience to new generations of filmmakers unafraid to rewrite the rules. When we started thinking about the startlingly original films emerging recently from this ancient and contemporary city, the perfect choice for us this year was Athens," Bailey said in a statement.
"After a long period of hibernation, Greek cinema has finally found its way back to the forefront," said Eipides, a film programmer, lecturer and festival director who has worked with film organizations worldwide.
"A number of young filmmakers — most of them fresh out of film school or, at best, with a couple of shorts to their name — turned things around. Where others saw devastation, they saw inspiration."
Greece has been grappling with complex cultural, financial and societal challenges amid its current recession and the government's severe economic reforms and austerity measures.
Recently made films will be a priority, as opposed to Greek movies and filmmakers of the past.
"We'll be looking for a diversity in the selection," he added.
And while there has been a wave of "quite stylized art house dramas" emerging from Greece, "we'll be looking at a range" of styles and genres, from strong fiction tales to documentaries.
The country's film industry has been remarkably active in the last few years, with many movies being made or in progress despite the economic crisis, according to Athens-based Eipides, whose 26 years with TIFF makes him the festival's longest serving programmer.
Today's new batch of Greek filmmakers are a determined group, he said. They share resources, take multiple roles on a production, sometimes work without getting paid and produce films despite limited means — all so they can share their cinematic stories, some of which naturally explore current economic conditions in Greece.
"Wherever there is enthusiasm and desire to make good cinema, people will succeed," he said. "We've had wonderful, active, vibrant film productions coming out of very difficult circumstances. I think Greece is going through something similar [now]."
Athens is the fifth city chosen for the annual program, which screens movies by filmmakers currently at work in the selected city during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Past cities have included Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Mumbai.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/05/08/tiff-city-to-city-athens.html
The Greek capital was unveiled as this year's choice by TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey and TIFF international programmer Dimitri Eipides on Wednesday.
"We want to introduce our audience to new generations of filmmakers unafraid to rewrite the rules. When we started thinking about the startlingly original films emerging recently from this ancient and contemporary city, the perfect choice for us this year was Athens," Bailey said in a statement.
"After a long period of hibernation, Greek cinema has finally found its way back to the forefront," said Eipides, a film programmer, lecturer and festival director who has worked with film organizations worldwide.
"A number of young filmmakers — most of them fresh out of film school or, at best, with a couple of shorts to their name — turned things around. Where others saw devastation, they saw inspiration."
Greece has been grappling with complex cultural, financial and societal challenges amid its current recession and the government's severe economic reforms and austerity measures.
Recent, strong, innovative films a priority
City to City typically features about 10 titles and though this year's exact selections won't be announced until July, Bailey and Eipides shed some light on what they're considering during an afternoon conference call.Recently made films will be a priority, as opposed to Greek movies and filmmakers of the past.
'Wherever there is enthusiasm and desire to make good cinema, people will succeed. We've had wonderful, active, vibrant film productions coming out of very difficult circumstances. I think Greece is going through something similar'—TIFF programmer Dimitri Eipides"We may go back a little while [e.g. three or four years] but not that far," Bailey said.
"We'll be looking for a diversity in the selection," he added.
And while there has been a wave of "quite stylized art house dramas" emerging from Greece, "we'll be looking at a range" of styles and genres, from strong fiction tales to documentaries.
The country's film industry has been remarkably active in the last few years, with many movies being made or in progress despite the economic crisis, according to Athens-based Eipides, whose 26 years with TIFF makes him the festival's longest serving programmer.
Today's new batch of Greek filmmakers are a determined group, he said. They share resources, take multiple roles on a production, sometimes work without getting paid and produce films despite limited means — all so they can share their cinematic stories, some of which naturally explore current economic conditions in Greece.
"Wherever there is enthusiasm and desire to make good cinema, people will succeed," he said. "We've had wonderful, active, vibrant film productions coming out of very difficult circumstances. I think Greece is going through something similar [now]."
Athens is the fifth city chosen for the annual program, which screens movies by filmmakers currently at work in the selected city during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Past cities have included Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Mumbai.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/05/08/tiff-city-to-city-athens.html
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