PANTELIS VOULGARIS

Pantelis Voulgaris was born in Athens, in 1940. He studied cinema at the Stavrakou Film Academy, as most directors did of this new generation. His first encounters with film took place when working in various positions at the studios of Finos Film, next to his mentor Dino Dimopoulos; he reached the point of becoming an assistant director. In 1965 his first short film participates at the Thessalonica Film Festival, a very important year for Greek cinema since a lot of new filmmakers made their film debuts. His next short film, “Jimmy the Tiger” (1966) won an award at the Festival. Also his first feature film “The matchmaking of Anna” receives a lot of positive reviews and the success of the film established him as a successful filmmaker and confidently sets off for his victorious career.

Voulgaris even if he belongs to the new generation of directors who renewed the Greek cinema, his work does not come in rupture with the old, traditional Greek cinema and filmmakers. His films do not participate in the factitious segregation that many new filmmakers of his generation attempted to create, finally failing. His films accomplish to combine high cinematographic aesthetics with themes and subjects accessible to the general public.

PANTELIS VOULGARIS