{"id":3153,"date":"2019-03-13T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2024-04-26T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:23:56","slug":"my-first-film-winns-its-first-award-the-greek-film-center-award-at-docs-in-progress-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/my-first-film-winns-its-first-award-the-greek-film-center-award-at-docs-in-progress-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"My first Film win\u200bs its first award! the Greek Film Center Award at Docs in Progress 2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestival.gr\/en\/documentary-festival\">Thessaloniki Festival <\/a>for me this year. My first ever film as director was selected at Docs in Progress and earned an award from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfc.gr\/en\/\">Greek Film Center<\/a>! It was selected among ten great projects. During the festival, we had a preparation session with <a href=\"https:\/\/dokweb.net\/database\/persons\/biography\/6e569943-91e9-40a9-a359-17d452085df5\/anna-glogowski\">Anna Glogowski<\/a> (former C.E. at France Television, now doc consultant and festival  programmer) and a group rehearsal.  The presentation was back to back at Pavlos Zannas Theatre, where we had three minutes to present our film and another eight minutes to show the audience scenes. There was no \"show\" and no questions from the public. Just straightforward presentations and meetings.  That meant that the people who asked to see me were really the people who had chosen and were interested in  the project. The film is in postproduction and I am looking for pre-sales, distribution, and partners. I can't begin to describe how proud and happy I am. Thank you all at  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestival.gr\/en\/professionals-b2b-tiff\/agora\">Agora TDF team (head Yanna Sarri)<\/a> and thank you to the  Greek Film Center for the support and  trust in my work! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SCHOOL<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>54<\/strong>\u00a0(working title) by Dimitra Kouzi \u2013 Greece (Kouzi Productions). A teacher for 27 years at a public elementary school in central Athens, Fotis Psycharis has developed his own approach. He uses drama to build teams, overcoming the linguistic and cultural barriers of his mostly refugee and immigrant pupils. Following <g class=\"gr_ gr_30 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"30\" data-gr-id=\"30\">Fotis<\/g> in class, teaching and developing a play that he has written for the graduation ceremony, this humorous, positive film is a rare opportunity to witness from within a school microcosm in a declining city centre.  A teacher and his class at a small public school on the outskirts of Europe <g class=\"gr_ gr_349 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"349\" data-gr-id=\"349\">provide<\/g> inspiration for the education of future Europeans. The film is in postproduction, slated for release in summer 2019. Duration approx. 60 min. There will also be a TV version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about Docs in Progress awards: <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestival.gr\/en\/professionals-b2b\/media-press\/26899-21st-thessaloniki-documentary-festival-the-awards\">https:\/\/www.filmfestival.gr\/en\/professionals-b2b\/media-press\/26899-21st-thessaloniki-documentary-festival-the-awards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<amp-fit-text layout=\"fixed-height\" min-font-size=\"14\" max-font-size=\"48\" height=\"50\"><p> Photo: Fani Trypsaki (\u03a6\u0391\u039d\u0397 \u03a4\u03a1\u03a5\u03a8\u0391\u039d\u0397) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motionteam.gr\/index.php?SCREEN=subject&amp;CatID=21&amp;SubcatID=138&amp;SubjectID=48499&amp;rec=81\">Motionteam <\/a><\/p><\/amp-fit-text>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a fantastic Thessaloniki Festival for me this year. My first ever film as director was selected at Docs in Progress and earned an award from the Greek Film Center! It was selected among ten great projects. During the festival, we had a preparation session with Anna Glogowski (former C.E. at France Television, now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/my-first-film-winns-its-first-award-the-greek-film-center-award-at-docs-in-progress-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My first Film win\u200bs its first award! the Greek Film Center Award at Docs in Progress 2019!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[591,5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-doc-making","category-en","category-festivals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mt_1118897_BRABEIA_DOC_MARKET_06-03-2019.jpg?fit=6240%2C4260&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eMeT-OR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kouziproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}