EL GRECO
Format : 35mm, color, 113 min
Director : Iannis Smaragdis
Producer : Helen Smaragdis
Music : Vangelis
Script : Jackie Pavlenko, Iannis Smaragdis
Story : Dimitris Nollas, Iannis Smaragdis
Photography : Aris Stavrou
Art director : Damianos Zarifis
Costumes : Lala Huete
Editing : Yiannis Tsitsopoulos
Sound : Marinos Athanassopoylos
Make–up : Argyro Kouroupou
Hair Stylist : Niki Psimouli
Cast : Nick Ashdon, Juan Diego Botto
Lakis Lazopoulos, Laia Marull,
Sotiris Moustakas, Dimitra Matsouka
Production Date : 2007
Box office success in Greece : (1.200.000 audiences)
8 STATE AWARDS
• State Award - Best Feature Film 2007
• State Award - Best Director
• State Award - Best Photography
• State Award - Βest Music for VANGELIS
• State Award - Best Art Director
• State Award - Best Editor
• State Award - Best Sound
• State Award - Best Make-up
• Audience Award - Thessaloniki Film Festival
• Best feature film 2007 Award by the Greek Union of Film Television and Audiovisual Technicians -
• First Prize for the actor Juan Diego Botto at the 2008 Cairo International Film Festival
• GOYA award for Costumer Lala Huete
• Wisdom Award (Vraveion Sophiis) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in Delfi - Greece
• “GIUSEPPE SCIACCA 2008” International Award in Rome - Italy
• The Euro - American Women's Council’s Award in Santa Barbara in California
• Artemis International Award
• Honorary Award at the Maremetraggio Film Festival in Trieste - Italy
FESTIVALS
• Official Participation at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. CBC channel of Canada officially classified EL GRECO among the five best films of the festival.
• Official Participation at the 2008 Sao Paolo International Film Festival
• Official Participation at the 2008 European Film festival of the American Film Institute in Washington
• Official Participation at the 2008 Cairo International Film Festival
• Official Participation at the 2009 International Festival in Guadalajara Mexico
• Official Participation at the 2009 International Festival of Pantalla Pinamar in Argentina