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Help Fund Georgios Soumelidis’ Black Comedy ‘Opposites Attract’

One of the new creative voices of the current independent Greek film movement, Georgios Soumelidis, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund his new black comedy film, "Opposites Attract". The plot focuses on a young woman with two...

This Greek Actor Wants to Crowd Fund an Action Film

Simon Kassianides, best known for his role as Sunil Bakshi in “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, and also starring in "To Have and To Hold", an upcoming Warner Bros. movie with Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson, now wants to produce an innovative new action film...

'Frozen Ambrosia': Winter Adventures in Greece

With so much negative news coming out of Greece in the last few years, it's a nice change of pace to talk to young Greeks and Greek-Americans who are trying to do something positive for the country. We interviewed Greek-American...

Greek Bailout Crowdfunding Campaign Raises Half A Million; Crashes Indiegogo

British shoe shop worker, Thomas Feeney launched a crowdfunding campaign on Monday to bailout Greece that at time of writing had raised more than half a million dollars. The campaign was started to help Greece pay back its $1.8 billion...

Judas Curse Will Be Shot On Symi

If you have ever been in the Greek island of Symi in your life, then certainly this memory would bring you back anything but horror. But now it's been chosen as the site for the filming of a new...

Electra Getting Ready to Hit Studio and Record Debut Album

After playing the L.A.-club circuit for the past three years, Electra Barakos and her band, Electra, are heading into the studio to record their debut album. Leaving Athens to head to Hollywood and fulfill her dream of becoming a musician,...

Greek Documentary Mana Seeks Crowdfunding

Awarded Greek-American director and founder of Exile Films, Valerie Kontakos, has turned to crowdfunding to complete her new documentary of a Greek orphanage different from others. To complete the last months' shootings and be able to promote the documentary...

A Xylouris Family Affair

Angeliki Aristomenopoulou has recently visited Australia to make a documentary on the history of the Xylouris family music. The documentary, A Xylouris Family Affair, focuses on the music of three generations of the Xylouris family, which is continued by...