FIPA INDUSTRY: And The Best Project is… AGORÁ (January 2013)

The documentary on the Greek financial crisis, which Yorgos Avgeropoulos has been preparing for the last 4 years, was presented in France and awarded by the commisioning editors at FIPA INDUSTRY!

At FIPA, the International Festival of Audiovisual Programs that is hosted every year in Biarritz, France, Yorgos Avgeropoulos presented his latest, ongoing documentary titled AGORÁ. AGORÁ is a four-year-long project, a feature film – documentary, which has been being filmed since the beginning of the crisis.

The director and producer Yorgos Avgeropoulos talked about AGORÁ before the commissioning editors from Europe’s and North America’s major television networks on Thursday, January 23rd, at the packed theater of FIPA Industry, where 17 fiction and documentary projects from France, Spain, the U.K., Belgium, Germany, Canada and Hungary were presented. Those were the ones selected out of 126 submitted proposals. Agora’s presentation lasted 7 minutes, during which the Greek director presented a 3-minute-long teaser.

On the following day the representatives of the television networks honored Agora at a special ceremony as the best project presented during the pitching. The delegate of FIPA for Greece, cinematographer Mr. Alexis Grivas received the 2,000€ prize on behalf of Yorgos Avgeropoulos, who was returning to Greece.

It was the third award Yorgos received from FIPA. In 2007 he won the prestigius FIPA D’ ARGENT (Silver FIPA) in the current affairs competition category for his documentary Delta, Oil’s Dirty Business and in 2009 the Young Europeans Jury Prize for the film The Blood of Kouan Kouan.