The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival announced this week that the new dates for the 2012 event will be May 31-June 3, 2012.  “After the great response we had last year, we are aggressively moving forward to not only expand our film program and events, but to also add to our great team of professionals,” commented Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Ersi Danou.  “I know much of our success comes from the devoted staff and volunteers who are returning again for 2012. To h...

Los Angeles Greek Festival ends on High NoteOrpheus’s spirit was abound at the  Awards Ceremony  presentation at the  4th annual Los Angeles Greek Film festivalwith the fabulous , Alexia Vassiliou enchanting us with lyrics from  classic films such as ,” Boy on a Dolphin”, “Never on Sunday”, “Phaedra”, andothers with film stars Melina Mercouri,Alan Ladd and Anthony Perkins.The beautiful Patricia Kara, of the TVshow Deal or No Deal hosted the award ceremony which included Academ...

Los AngelesGreek Film Festival The opening night was one of the most emotional andstrongest selections of shorts and a feature that I have ever experienced. Startingwith the short animated film, “The Boy and the Tree(“Ena Dentro Mia Fora”)which is an Oscar worthy nomination and the DVD should be placed in everychild’s Christmas Stocking. “Cats keep falling on my Head” (Gata Ex Ouranu) isanother short narrative film about a woman who takes in a stray cat whichbecomes her priority. �...

The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival announces Christos Georgiou's SMALL CRIME as the festival’s Opening Night Gala presentation and Alexis Kardaras' GUINNESS, starring Antonis Kafetzopoulos, as its Closing Night Gala presentation. This marks the 3rd year of the Festival, which takes place at The Egyptian Theatre from June 25 through June 28, and will feature 7 feature films, 7 documentaries and 8 shorts, with 15 films enjoying their U.S. premieres. The four-day festival highlights include: Op...