Press Release
On Sunday 25th of July, the program of the 7th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival is concluding in Sparta by announcing the "Sparta Award" for Best Greek Documentary.
With the announcement of the best Greek documentaries of this year, the 7th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival concludes the screenings in Sparta. The night of the closing ceremony started with a speech by the mayor of Sparta, Petros Doukas and then spoke Konstantinos Blathras, who is a member of the judging committee that considered the best films of this year. He announced the winners:
The award for Best Greek Documentary goes to two equal entrees:
-The Music of Things by Menios Carayannis and
-The Fourth Character by Katerina Patroni
Because of the quality of the films and the gentle approach to the themes of loneliness and loss.
The physical prize was carved by the sculptor Christos Riganas. The two directors will have to divide the 2000 euro prize following the award win, sponsored by the Municipality of Sparta.
The committee including Eleni Alexadrakis (director), Robbie Eksiel (journalist, film critic) and Konstantinos Blathras (journalist, film critic), has decided on some Honorable Mentions:
-1000 Square Meters of Time by Maro Anostopoulou, for her gentle and human approach to scientific and historical material.
-The Weavers by Dimitris Koutsiampasakos, for the bittersweet gaze in an unknown story about philanthropy and trade from abroad along, around a traditional art.
-Sundays by Alethea Avramis for the honesty that she transcribed such a personal feeling that ends up universal.
The 7th installation of the festival started its journey on 18th of June in Kalamata and continued in 10 more cities all over Peloponnese (Sparta, Patras, Gytheion, Ksylokastro, Amaliada, Akrata, Dimitsana, Stymfalia, Levidi, Derveni), bringing the audience close to 58 international documentaries and 27 Greek productions. Sparta has welcomed the largest part of the Greek Program from 16th of July with free daily screenings at the 2nd Primary School courtyard, co-organized by the Culture and Environment head of the Municipality of Sparta.
The official end of the festival is going to be on the 28th of July in Patras with the two last but not least films. The first film is "Photographer of War" by Boris B. Bertram that was awarded earlier in Kalamata with the Audience Award and the film "Time is on our Side" by Katy Lena N'diaye,