16th Los
Angeles Greek Film Festival
Red Carpet Closing Night - Orpheus
Award Winners
The red carpet Closing Night of the 16th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) on Sunday, May 15 at the Silver Screen Theatre, Pacific Design Center was a great success. The screening of Araceli Lemos’ award-winning “HOLY EMY”, Orpheus Awards & Reception at the state-of-the-art Silver Screen Theatre at the Pacific Design Center included VIPS, celebrities, dignitaries, along with many filmmakers from Greece. Guests enjoyed music by popular DJ Yiannis Markoulakis, Greek cuisine from Pietris Bakery and signature cocktails by Kástra Elión Vodka.
Festival Director Aris Katopodis opened the ceremony with a warm welcome to the (sold out audience). “What an exceptional Festival week we have had - We are back and we are better than ever,” exclaimed Katopodis”. The Awards Ceremony was co-hosted by Lia Bozonelis and Alex Kalognomos.
LAGFF 2022 consisted of 64 films, including
25 female filmmakers and showcasing 8 world premieres, 5 international
premieres, 7 North American premieres, 9 West Coast premieres, 13 U.S.
premieres, 10 Los Angeles premieres and 14 animated films. The virtual portion
of the Festival continues through May 22th, including on-line access
internationally to 50% of the films.
Orpheus Award Winners:
Best Feature
Fiction Film
Holy Emy by Araceli Lemos
Best Director Feature Fiction Film
Araceli Lemos for Holy Emy
Best Performance in a Feature Fiction Film
Angeliki Papoulia for her role in Patchwork
Honorable Mention: Nikos
Zegkinoglou for his role in 18
Honorable Mention: Aris
Servetalis for his role in Pack of Sheep (This one was a supporting role, but
the committee thought it was worth mentioning)
Audience Award: Smyrna, My
Beloved
Best Documentary Film
The
Students of Umberto Primo by Alessandra Maioletti
Special Jury Award: How to
Train an Antihero by Yannis Bletas
Special Jury Award: Memento by Nikos Ziogas
Audience Award, Outer Space Kids by George Gounezos
Best Short Film
To
Vancouver by Artemis Anastasiadou
Honorable Mention: Brutalia,
Days of Labour by Manolis Mavris
Honorable Mention: Memoir of
a Veering Storm: by Sofia Georgovassili
Audience
Award: Nexting by Karina Logotheti
Best Animation
From
The Balcony by Aris Kaplanidis, Elias Roumeliotis
Honorable Mention: Afterimage
by Antonis Doussias
IPDF Award Winner
Glory B - Director: Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Producer: Fani Skartouli
Honorable Mention: Shibboleth - Writer/ Director: Alexandra Matheou
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| Group photo of the winners - Photo credit: Urbanite Media/Steve Sasaki |
