THIS IS OUR STORY with Panagiotis Kountoura
Saturday 21 January // via Zoom
The Larissa Film Festival invites you to an online film seminar with the award-winning creator Panagiotis Kountoura.
Start time: 16:00
Duration: 2 hours + Q&A
THIS IS OUR STORY The title of the interactive workshop for students aged 13 to 18. Are we all potential storytellers? What are the stages and the basic techniques for creating a screenplay? How does the screenplay jump onto the big screen and become a short film? Through examples of the creation of award-winning student films, all the stages of production and narrative tools will be revealed that will allow young creators to bring their ideas from paper to the cinematic language.
Short Biography
Panagiotis Kounturas is a graduate of the Film Department (APTH) and the Postgraduate Program in Creative Writing (PGWC) in the direction of television and film scriptwriting. His films focus on human behavior, revealing elements such as isolation, diversity, and loneliness. His films Vanishing Heroes, The , Wooden Box and Emoticon Man They have participated in dozens of festivals in Greece and abroad.
The film IVAN, Having made its world premiere at the Leeds Film Festival, it has counted more than 90 entries and 14 awards at important international events.
In 2020 & 2021, he was selected in Sarajevo Talents of the Berninale (directors summit). He has served as a film director consultant for the transnational program EUFORIA in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival, for which he created 15 educational films, while simultaneously training more than 400 students in the creation of documentation films. In the series of documentaries My Name is not Refugee
(TV100), participated as a director in the World Public Television Congress (Input 2017). He was responsible for film programs at E. Mandoulides Training Center, with his students receiving domestic and international awards. In 2018, he was one of the 6 finalists of the Medea Awards, for global innovation in its use
audiovisual media in education through the Teaching History program.
He has directed more than 70 commercials, 250 television episodes and music videos for established artists. For four television seasons, he was the creator, director and presenter of the successful travel show. SELFIE On ERT. The series of television documentaries followed. Scenes with Tails (ERT2)
in which he signs the direction and editing for three seasons. This year, he also directs ERT’s new children’s series titled Lachana and Hachana. His new feature-length documentary titled Mauthausen It will have its world premiere in 2023.
