Lucia rikaki talks about her new documentary on air fm
Lucia Rikaki (Greek: Λουκία Ρικάκη; 14 July 1961, Piraeus – 28 December 2011, Athens) was a Greek film director, documentarist, writer and producer. From 1979 to 1981 Rikaki studied art history, graphic design, cinema and photography at the Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England. In 1984 she founded "Orama Films" producing art films, TV programmes and theatrical plays. In 1995 she created "104 Art Theater Stage", and "The Comedy Club" the only stand-up comedy venue to date in Greece. She is best known for her documentaries about socially sensitive issues such as immigration, education and the lives of the disabled in Greece.
1999 Dancing Soul 35MM 94’ Bronze Award Worldfest Houston 2000
1994 Quartet in 4 movements 35MM music by Z.Preisner 109’ best selling European film in Greece
1991 A Trip to Australia 35MM 90’ SVT, TV2, AVRO, CINEPAQ
Feature documentaries
2009 Sing Along 68min
2008 Meant to leave 52 min
2006 Does humor travel 52 min
2006 Commons what we hold in common 54 min
2004 The Other 35MM 75min/52min
2003 The Aegean in the words of the poets 35MM 61min award for best script Minitsry of Culture
2002 Tonight at the Comedy Club 128’
2002 Words of silence 35MM www.wordsofsilence.gr Award for best Greek documentary Kalamata Film Festival 2002/ Szolnok Intl Film Festival Hungarian Film Association Award 2003
Short documentaries
2008 Small things that matter 30min
2002 Culture games 30min
2002 Bookreading- a game in schools 30’
2001 Greek illustrators 26min
2000 Falsified Expectations 30min on puberty and utopia
1992 In the Traces of the Argonauts 60’ shot in Georgia
