Tassos boulmetis biography

Tassos Boulmetis studied Physics in the University of Athens and Film Production and Direction at the University of California (UCLA), with a scholarship.
Tassos Boulmetis studied Physics at the University of Athens and Film Production and Direction at the University of California (UCLA).
Tassos Boulmetis studied Physics at the University of Athens and Film Production and Direction at the University of California (UCLA), under a scholarship.

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A Night with Tassos Boulmetis and "1968"

Film Screening, Culture

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University is pleased to host celebrated Greek director, Tassos Boulmetis.

Join us on Wednesday, August 23rd at the Goldcorp Cinema, SFU Vancouver for a screening of his recent film, "1968". The director himself will introduce the film, while a Q & A session, after the screening, will be moderated by the Director of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU, professor Dimitris Krallis.

Attendance is free. The presentation will not be recorded.

If you have any questions or would like to register without using Eventbrite, please email us at hscomm@sfu.ca.

ABSTRACT

April 4th, 1968. Athens' Kallimarmaro Stadium is abuzz, with thousands of people gathered and millions listening through their radios. The AEK – Slavia Prague basketball game has just begun. A girl in love is dreaming of her wedding day, while her future husband becomes more desperate with every Greek shot through the

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Biography

Tassos Boulmetis was born in Istanbul in 1957. He came to Greece in 1964. He studied Physics in the University of Athens and Film Production and Direction in the University of California (UCLA), with scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. At UCLA he taught as an assistant professor classes on directing actors for film and television. In Greece he started his career as a director/producer of TV shows in the national television channels. He then wrote, directed and co-produced the film "Dream Factory" which was on video and then transferred to film. The film gained 8 awards in Greece and the Golden Award of Fantasy Movies in the Houston Film Festival. Since 1988 he's been directing TV spots, internationally, and has specialized in Special Effects. His last big project was the film "A Touch of Spice", which he wrote, directed and co-produced. This project is a labor of love for him as the story is based, mostly, on true facts drawn from his own life. The film became the biggest hit ever in Greece with over 1.500.00 admissions and has been distributed in 36 countries i

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Born in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1957. He came to Greece in 1964. He studied Physics in the University of Athens and Film Production and Direction in the University of California (UCLA), with scholarship from the Onassis Foundation, where he also worked for a while as an assistant.

In Greece he started his career as a director/producer of TV shows in the national television channels. He then co-produced, directed and wrote the film "Dream Factory". The film gained 8 awards in Greece and the Golden Award of Fantasy Movies in the Houston Film Festival. Since 1988 he's been directing TV spots, internationally, and has specialized in Special Effects and Processing of Electronic Images.

FILMOGRAPHY

1990, Dream Factory
2003, A Touch of Spice: The film was awarded the following prizes at the 44th International Film Festival of Thessaloniki:
Best Motion Picture First Prize,
Best Director award (Tassos Boulmetis),
Best Screenplay award (Tassos Boulmetis),
Best Cinematography award (Takis Zervoulakos),
Best Set Design award (Olga Leontiadou),
Best Music award (Evanthia Reboutsika