Parvas

Parvas is the story of a family. It depicts a series of ordinary events, of chance happenings in a family that resides in Chora of Amorgos. Dimitri Yannakos, also known as Parvas, spends the last winter of his life in Chora, a village on the island of Amorgos. He divides his time between his garden and the coffee shop he runs with his wife and daughter. Amorgos is popular to filmgoers from the film Le Grand Bleu, in which Dimitri Yannakos played a small part. The film Parvas shows life on the island of Amorgos as it really is...

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Cinematography: Gerasimos Rigas
Editing: Yorgos Triantafyllou
Sound: Costas Varybopiotis
Music: Nikos Kypourgos
Producers: Gerasimos Rigas
Co-production: SKAI TV. With the support of the GFC
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2008
Duration: 75
Contact: Gerasimos RigasT. +30 210 7291860rigasfilms@gmail.com

Gerasimos Rigas

He is an Athens, Greece based documentary filmmaker. Parvas is his second feature documentary film. Habits was his first. He studied Documentary Filmmaking at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to his studies in Berkeley he obtained a Master’s degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics. His UC Berkeley thesis film, A Voyage in Cyprus, screened at several film festivals around the world.

Filmography

2003 A Journey to Cyprus
2006 Habits
2008 Parvas