Best Documentary Award for AGORA at Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

AGORΑ by Yorgos Avgeropoulos received the Best Documentary award at the 9th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival. The Orpheus Awards Ceremony took place on Sunday night June 7th at the fully packed Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

At the ceremony, director Yorgos Avgeropoulos sent his warmest greetings from Athens with a brief but significant speech:“I would like to thank you and the organizers of Los Angeles Greek Film Festival for the hospitality of the film and their warm hearts. I hope AGORA contributes in a deeper understanding of Greece and Europe’s financial and social crisis. I think time has come to ask ourselves: What is the biggest achievement of Europe? Is it Market’s Economy? Or Democracy? I believe the biggest achievement of Europe is Democracy and we now have to defend it, day by day.”

This year’s festival Jury were Gary Mairs, Associate Dean of the School of Film/Video at CalArts, Anastas Michos, ASC, Director of Photography, John Sideropoulos, Founder of 3 Ring Circus and Mark Roybal, Executive Vice President of Production at 20th Century Fox.

The Jury awarded “Stratos” by Yannis Economides as Best Feature Film, AGORΑ by Yorgos Avgeropoulos as Best Documentary Film and “Citizen Day” by Basile Doganis as Best Short Film. “Beneath the Olive Tree” by Stavroula Toska received the Van Vlachakis Award and this year’s Audience Award went to “A Family Affair” by Angeliki Aristomenopoulou.

LATIN AMERICAN PREMIERE COMING SOON

AGORΑ will also have its Latin American premiere at the 16th Buenos Aires International Human Rights Film Festival (17-24 June 2015) and will screen as part of the International Feature Film Competition together with 15 films representing 14 countries. There will be two screenings, on Tuesday 23 June at 20:30 (Alianza Francesa) and on Wednesday 24 June at 22:30 (BAMA).

More information about upcoming screenings of AGORΑ in Greece and the rest of the world will follow soon.