Occupation Film | Name Syllas Tzoumerkas Role Film director | |
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Born 1978 Thessaloniki, Greece Awards Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Newcomer Nominations Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay Movies A Blast, Homeland, Wasted Youth, The Eternal Return of Antonis P, Ta Matia Pou Trone Similar People Aggeliki Papoulia, Themis Bazaka, Maria Drandaki, Amalia Moutoussi, Makis Papadimitriou | ||
Years active 2000 in film – present | ||
A blast clip a film by syllas tzoumerkas
Syllas Tzoumerkas (Greek: Σύλλας Τζουμέρκας; born 1978) is a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor
Contents
- A blast clip a film by syllas tzoumerkas
- 20th sarajevo film festival interview with syllas tzoumerkas
- Life and work
- Theatre
- References
20th sarajevo film festival interview with syllas tzoumerkas
Life and work
Syllas Tzoumerkas was born in Thessaloniki. He studied theatre and directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School and the University of Athens. In 2000, he directed the short film The Devouring Eyes (Ta Matia Pou Trone) that was selected by the Cinéfondation of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize at the 2001 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
His first feature film Homeland (Hora Proelefsis) had its world première at the International Critics' Week of the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Homeland participated in several international film festivals and won 5 Awards of the Hellenic Film Academy (best first film director, best supporting role actress for Ioanna Tsirigouli, original music, editing and make-up).
As an actor, Syllas Tzoumerkas participated in feature films Wasted Youth (2011) by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel Rotterdam International Film Festival and The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (2013) by Elina Psykou (Berlin International Film Festival).
The script for his second feature film A Blast won the Eurimages Co-production Award at the Cinelink co-production market of the 2012 Sarajevo film festival.
His second feature film A Blast', a Greek-German-Dutch-Italian co-production had its world premiere at the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival 2014. The film was consequently presented in many international film festivals, most notably Sarajevo international film festival (regional premiere), BFI London Film Festival (Dare), Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Competition New Directors), Rotterdam International Film Festival 2015 (Limelight), among others. It was theatrically released in several countries (Greece, Germany, Italy, Holland, Poland, Denmark, Australia, etc.) and was picked up for VOD and dvd release in the United States by Indiepix Films. In the international press, the critical reception of the film varied from great and mostly favourable reviews in Screen Daily, Indiewire, The Hollywood Reporter, Der Spiegel to mixed in Variety and negative in We Got this Covered'.
In 2016, Syllas Tzoumerkas co-signed the script and appeared as an actor in Argyris Papadimitropoulos' film Suntan (Rotterdam International Film Festival 2016, Best International Film - Edinburgh International Film Festival).
His theatre work includes stage performances Debate (Bios theatre, Diaspora theatre group, 2011) and High and Low - A Murderer in Tokyo (Onassis Cultural Centre, Diaspora theatre group), both co-directed with Youla Boudali. In 2015, he participated at the Onassis Cultural Centre's production of the omnibus performance X-Apartments - Athens (concept by Matthias Lilienthal, curated by Katia Arfara and Anna Mülter), with the segment Α Farewell to the Traitor from a Lower-Middle-Class House in Larissa Station, Athens (based on a letter by Flavius Philostratus, 3rd Century A.D.)