Attenberg…Goes for Oscar

The film Attenberg directed by Athina-Rachel Tsangari has officially been submitted as Greece’s entry for 2012 Oscar Awards in the Foreign Language Film category.
Following a Hellenic Film Academy suggestion last May, Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos officially announced on September 29 that the multi-awarded Attenberg will represent Greece in the 84th Academy Awards to be held on February26 in Los Angeles.
(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)

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Call for Entries to the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival is currently seeking submissions for this year’s event, set to take place June 4-7, 2009.  Please help the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival spread the word by forwarding the Call for Entries to anyone you think may be interested. Late submission deadline extended to 13 March 2009.

Contact:

Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
Programming team

3rd Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
June 4-7, 2009
www.lagreekfilmfestival.org

The Flame of Hope for the 2009 was lit in Athens

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)    The Flame of Hope for the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games was lit on November 12, at a ceremony in Zappeion Hall, Athens. In keeping with the Olympic tradition, the torch was lit by the sun’s rays before embarking on a three-month journey around the world to Idaho, USA, the site of the next World Games (www.2009worldgames.org). Almost 3,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities from more than 100 countries will participate in Special Olympics World Winter Games to be held from February 7 to 13, 2009.  After Athens the first stop for the torch will be in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It will then continue around the world, making stops in Poland, Costa Rica, South Africa, India, China and three cities in the United States – Miami, New York and Los Angeles. On January 27, 2009 the flame will reach Idaho, USA, to begin the Torch Relay‘s final leg through many cities in Idaho before arriving at the Opening Ceremony for the World Winter Games on February 7. The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games will be held in Athens, Greece.  Special Olympics Hellas: www.specialolympicshellas.gr (in Greek)

Retrieved Artefacts @ New Acropolis Museum

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Some 75 artefacts, including the magnificent 6th-century vessel known as the Euphronios crater, will be presented at an exhibition which will be inaugurated at the New Acropolis Museum (www.newacropolismuseum.gr) in September. The artefacts present a special interest because they constitute artefacts of Greek and Roman origin that were found on Italian soil, and were subsequently illicitly exported abroad. Eventually, American museums (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) returned the artefacts to Italy and were later displayed in Rome as part of the “Nostoi: Capolavori ritrovati” (Greek for ‘Homecomings’: Italian for recovered masterpieces) in the beginning of 2008. The same exhibition – the retrieved artefacts – will be hosted by the New Acropolis Museum. The opening is scheduled for September 23 and the exhibition will run until the end of 2008. Together with the artefacts offered by Italy, the exhibition will also comprise artefacts displayed in foreign museums and private collections which have recently returned to Greece permanently. The New York Times – Arts: Nostoi: Recovered Masterpieces