“THE DIRECTOR’S SOUND AND THE COMPOSER’S VISION”: MUSIC IN MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH EVANTHIA REBOUTSIKA AND TASSOS BOULMETIS

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
13:00
Pavlos Zannas Theater

FIlmmaker Tassos Boulmetis and composer Evanthia Reboutsika present and discuss their method of collaboration. Topics include the role of music during scriptwriting and preparation, the relationship between the director and composer before and after filming, themes, motifs and transitions, sound clips, sound design, and music. The two acclaimed artists first collaborated in Tasos Boulmetis’s film A Touch of Spice (Politiki Kouzina), which won the State Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, became the biggest hit ever in Greece with over 1.600.000 admissions, found distribution in 45 countries in all over the world and was screened in several festivals around the world, received eight awards of excellence in Greece and became Greece’s official entry in the 2005 Academy Awards. The two of them reunited for the films Mythopathy and 1968. Evanthia Reboutsika has been honored with special awards from refugee municipalities for her music in A Touch of Spice and for promoting Greek-Turkish friendship through culture. Tassos Boulmetis is a member of the European Film Academy and also works as a visiting professor in Academic institutions in Greece and the United States, and is currently fulltime professor, teaching Documentary Production at New York College in Athens, Greece.