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ODYSSEUS AWARDS 2008

        THE JURY

  • Ann Kristin Glenster: Producer / Film Financer / Screenwriter. Ann Kristin has considerable experience as a film financer and screenwriter. As the Managing Director of FilmCamp, a Norwegian regional fund, she invested in several feature films with budgets over US$10 million including The Kautokeino Rebellion and Far North starring Sean Bean and Michelle Yeoh which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival. Ann Kristin is an award-winning screenwriter and is currently developing several projects with her writing partner Funke Oyebanjo. In addition, Ann Kristin runs her own finance consultancy company BOILER STATION and acts as an Executive Producer on selected films. In 2004 she was invited to join the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for her work of writing for the screen. Ann Kristin has a unique European perspective and is based in Norway and London.

  • Alexandra Dyranis - Maounis: Scriptwriter / Development Producer. Alex has a joint BA in English Literature & Film Studies and an MA in Creative Writing from Brunel University, and a diploma in Scriptwriting from the New York Film Academy. In summer 2007, she took a Creative Writing course at Exeter College Oxford. As a student, Alexandra got involved in numerous short movie productions as Assistant Director and Assistant Producer for November Films. In October 2004, she embarked on her professional career mainly through freelancing as a script reader and writer in well known production companies such as Initial part of Endemol, Apollo Films, Pop Productions and agencies such as Portman. Alexandra has also worked as project manager and co-ordinator for International Theatre Crossroads (Greece 2005) and the Theatre Lab Company (2007-2008) and with CosmoTheatre and CosmoCinema since 2008 as Production Assistant. Alexandra is working as Development Producer for Charm Offensive on Pentecost (Union Chapel, 2010).

  • Leda Papachatzi: Programming Manager ANT1 PAY TV. Leda has a BA in Media Studies from University of Westminster and an MA in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Both dissertations for her BA and MA explored and analysed programming and audiences of Greek Commercial Television. She did her placement in the Greek Section of BBC Radio and started working for ANT1 Group as soon as she returned to Athens, as a PAY TV Programming Executive. In her second year in ANT1 Group, she ran the planning and the realisation of ANT1 Gold. As a Programming Manager, Leda has initiated extensive research projects relating to the viewing habits of Greek audiences in Greece and abroad. Leda is currently Programming Manager for ANT1 PAY TV and is responsible for the programming and the media promotion strategies of all PAY TV channels of ANT1 in USA and Canada, Australia and Europe.

  • Tassos Regios: Journalist / Film Critic. Tassos is a member of Journalists' Union of Macedonia and Thrace Daily Newspapers (ΕΣΗΕΜ-Θ); also member of the Film Critics' International Union (FIPRESCI). He is author and publisher for culture and cinema magazines; he was member of Commitees for the National's Greek Awards and for Festivals and he was board member for some film organisations, such Greek Cinema Museum and Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Now is Chief Editor of Culture Department at the daily newspaper «Aggelioforos».

  • Chris Wright: Director / Editor - November Reels / November Films. Chris is a London based film maker and co-director of November Films, run out of Ealing Studios. He has written and directed three short films and, as a company, he has overseen about ten short films as well as various other projects. His last short ‘A Tale of Two Girls’ was show at Cannes Festival in 2007. At the current time, he is involved with another two shorts and he is looking to set up feature length projects.

          ODYSSEUS AWARDS - FILMS

  • Best Fiction Feature Film

  • Best Documentary

  • Best Short Film

  • Best Video Art Movie

  • Best Dance Film

  • (no film short listed)
  • Best Music Video

  • (no film short listed)
  • Best Student Film

  • Best Animation movie

  • Audience Choice (in-house polls)
  • World Wide Web Visitors Choice *

* Online Polls are now open; click here and vote online for the Odysseus Awards (www visitors choice)! Polls will close at 8.15 on Sunday 16 November!

          ODYSSEUS AWARDS - SCRIPTS

  • Best Fiction Feature Film Script

  • Best Documentary Script

  • (no script short listed)
  • Best Short Film Script

  • Best Video Art Movie Script

  • (no script short listed)
  • Best Video Game Script

  • (no script short listed)
  • Best Reality Show Script

  • (no script short listed)
  • Best Student Film Script

  • (no script short listed)
  • Best TV Series Script (no script short listed)

          Odysseus Awards are not accompanied by cash prize.

       

 

 

 

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