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SAVE THE DATE FOR LAGFF: JUNE 6-9, 2013
Join LAGFF, June 6-9, 2013, for more Greek cinema from around the world. The 7th edition of LAGFF promises more movies, special events, and industry programs - as well as the opportunity to showcase and support Greek filmmakers!
Stay tuned for LAGFF's 2013 Call-for-Films. Visit www.lagff.org |
THE HELLENIC PLAYERS OF LOS ANGELES
AND LAGFF HOST AUDITIONS!
The Hellenic Players of Los Angeles, in association with LA Greek Film Festival, are producing a series of monologues called "I Am Greek", to showcase the merging of Greek heritage with the art of theater. The series will be directed by award-winning filmmaker, theater director, and LAGFF Co-Founder, Angeliki Giannakopoulos.
Actors should have extensive theater background and a great story to tell about their Greek heritage, families or themselves. Performed pieces each need to be about 10-15 minutes long.
Examples: A story about your Greek parents/grandparents; a tale of immigrating to America, or what it feels like to be Greek in America; maybe even a piece about missing the homeland. Actors should prepare a 5-minute audition sample of their monologue.
If you are not an actor but have a great story to share, you may still submit. Theater organizers will cast the right actor to perform it.
For further inquiries regarding auditions, please email Jade at art@hellenicplayers.org (Attn: Jade Cagalawan), or call 818-963-8219.Auditions will be held in November.
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CONGRATULATIONS JIM GIANOPULOS  Jim Gianopulos, LAGFF Advisory Board Member, is to be promoted to sole Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, following the Skouras legacy of heading the studio. For complete story, click here.
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CONGRATULATIONS CONSUL GENERAL OF GREECE,
ELISABETH FOTIADOU!
 The American Hellenic Council and Hellenic University Club honored the Consul General of Greece, Elisabeth Fotiadou at a special event
featuring electrifying tango performances and hosted by Patricia Kara and Ariana Savalas. For details and photos from the evening, which was held in Beverly Hills at the home of John and Eleni Romm, please click here.
LAGFF has been avidly supported by Fotiadou. Her dedication to LAGFF and to all local organizations and art events during the past three years has significantly enhanced our community.
LAGFF joined AHC and the HCH in this celebration of Elisabeth Fotiadou and salutes her outstanding diplomatic and charitable work!
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Lucas Thanos and the Hellenic Library present Aeschylus' ORESTEIA,
Lucas Thanos studied Theatre, Music, Dance and Philosophy in Athens, Rome and New York. He researched for many years the dance philosophy of Isadora Duncan, serving as adviser of her family as well as reviver and Artistic Director of the "Isadora Duncan Center for the Studies of Dance."
 Besides being a composer and explorer of Contemporary Choreography, Thanos is also a persistent scholar of Ancient Greek Tragedy. In the last few years, he has devoted himself to the study of Aeschylus, rhythmic physical movement, Ancient tragic word, and the root of the collective experience. His work also explores symbolist hypothesis, psychoanalytic interpretation, and the anthropological dimension of Ancient texts.
Having considerable experience in dance and theatre, he relied on his musical and dance praxis in his quest to decipher and analyze in depth the musicality and the internal rhythm of the dramatic poetry of Aeschylus.
By translating all of the Aeschylus' known plays to the contemporary Greek and English language, his focal point is to bring out the rhythm and the musicality of the great dramatist's word.
Aeshcylus' ORESTEIA - The Trilogy Synopsis
 The Oresteia tells the story of the house of Atreus. The first play, Agamemnon, portrays the victorious return of that king from the Trojan War and his murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus. At the play s end Clytemnestra and her lover rule Argos.
The second play details the revenge of Agamemnon's daughter Electra and his son, Orestes. The siblings together invoke the aid of the dead Agamemnon in their plans. Orestes slays Aegisthus and his mother and flees, guilt-wracked, maddened, and pursued by the female incarnations of his mother's curse, the Furies (Erinyes).
The third play, Eumenides, opens at the shrine of Apollo at Delphi,
where Orestes has taken sanctuary from the Furies. At the command of the Delphic oracle, Orestes journeys to Athens to stand trial for his
matricide. There the goddess Athena organizes a trial with a jury of
citizens. The Furies are his accusers, Apollo his advocate. The jury is evenly divided in its vote, and Athena casts the tie-breaking vote for
Orestes' acquittal. The Furies then turn their vengeful resentment
against the city itself.
The work has extraordinary, sustained dramatic and poetic power.
Particularly notable are the fascinating richness of Clytemnestra' s deceitful words and the striking choral songs, which raise in metaphorical and often enigmatic terms the major themes of theology,
politics, and blood relationships that are elaborated throughout the trilogy.
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Social media such has Twitter, Facebook and Youtube has made it possible to receive an up-to-the-minute stream of LAGFF news, photos, videos, and more. Important updates - by LAGFF as well as by filmmakers and fans from around the globe - can be viewed on LAGFF's Facebook page. If you have not yet become a member, please click here to join our Facebook Page. Remember, LAGFF shares all the photos taken at the festival in galleries on Facebook, organized by day and event. We encourage you to tag photos and share them with friends and family!
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Alexia Vassiliou with Anastasios Papapostolou, Alexis Georgoulis, Patricia Kara and friends at LAGFF 2012
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Photograph by Maria Martin
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We are grateful to Consul General of Cyprus Andreas Kyprianides for his continued support and tireless efforts to promote Hellenism.
Special thanks go to ELMA, an organization dedicated to the promotion of European Cinema in America.
We acknowledge the following distinguished individuals for their love of the arts and culture, and for their precious contribution to LAGFF:
Marianne & Dean Metropoulos, Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks, Tina & George Kolovos, Stella & Dinos Andrianos, Sid Ganis, Corinna Tsopei Fields, Kary Antholis, Michael Galanakis, Olympia Dukakis, and Aris Anagnos.
We wish to express our gratitude to Consul General of Greece, Elisabeth Fotiadou, for her vision, dedication and fervent support.
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