MARIANNE METROPOULOS JOINS ADVISORY BOARD |
Marianne Metropooulos (with husband, Dean) joins Olympia Dukakis on LAGFF's Advisory Board. Photo by Maria Martin
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Los Angeles Greek Film Festival is proud to announce that Marianne Metropoulos has joined its Advisory Board. "I am very honored to join such a prestigious advisory board and I look forward to a very successful 2012 film festival," says Marianne Metropoulos.
Marianne is a supporter of many charitable organizations, such as Hunger Free Vermont. In 1994, she established the foundation Project Healthy Start which provides hot breakfast and lunch for schools throughout the state which did not have facilities to provide this service to children in need. She expanded the program, which feeds 22,000 children daily, to include the summer months. For her commitment and dedication to children and families, the Vermont legislature honored her by passing a bill in her name designating one day a year as "Hunger Day."
She is also a supporter of Food on Foot, an LA based organization that feeds the homeless; Golden Opportunities (a Connecticut based senior citizens group for which she provided the initial funding); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, founded by Paul Newman; and LAGFF, to name a few.
Prior to marriage, Marianne lived in Washington, D.C. where she worked for an Arab Embassy as Program Director for Cultural Affairs. While still at the Embassy she was offered a position in the Office of Protocol, Department of State. Before accepting that position, she had the good fortune to meet her husband, Dean, and left Washington to marry him in 1977. They have two sons, Evan, 31, and Daren, 28 who are the owners of Pabst Brewing Company.
Currently, Marianne is producing a feature film about a young Greek woman who becomes a freedom fighter after the massacre of her family at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821. Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Armageddon, The Incredible Hulk) is producing the project with Marianne, who wrote the novel that the script is based on.
Shekhar Kapur is signed to direct and Phedon Papamichael (a friend and fellow LAGFF Advisory Board member) will serve - schedule permitting - as Director of Photography.
Marianne divides her time between Beverly Hills and Greenwich, Connecticut.
