New Topper Markos Holevas on How Revamped Greek Film Center Hopes to Push Industry to Greater Heights

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This summer a new board of directors took the reins at the Greek Film Center (GFC), the body that oversees all aspects of the country’s film policy, from bolstering the development and production o…

The Greek Film Center also offered a measure of financial relief to keep the industry running during the first lockdown last spring, launching a €2.8 million fund with the Ministry of Culture to support small-scale productions, even as most of the Greek economy had ground to a halt.

The changes come at a time of great optimism for the Greek biz, which has weathered years of austerity measures and economic crisis to produce a new generation of rising talent. A decade after the Greek Weird Wave introduced international audiences to directors like Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari , Christos Nikou opened the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons sidebar with his feature debut, “Apples,” while Georgis Grigorakis’s “Digger” premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama strand.

 

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