New Odessa - The Village of the Lake

New Odessa is a village that was created for a film: Theo Angelopoulos’ Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow. It was built on a lakebed, destined to live for a period of time as a regular village and then to be destroyed in a flood. For all those connected to the film, the village was not just a set but a familiar place,which was lived in and loved. Its brief life was an extraordinary experience which lives on today only in our memories. Going back in time, the documentary attempts to chronicle this unique adventure, the story of a unique village that was born to die.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Margarita Manda, Costas Lambropoulos
Cinematography: Costas Lambropoulos, Dimitris Sofikitis
Editing: Angela Despotidou
Sound: Vangelis Vlessas, Marinos Athanassopoulos
Production: CL Productions
Producers: Costas Lambropoulos
Format: Betacam SP Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2004
Duration: 52
Contact: CL Productions, GreeceT. +30 210 6412700 F. +30 210 6412709 info@clproductions.grwww.clproductions.gr

Margarita Manda

She was born in Athens in 1963. She studied Political Science and French Literature at Athens University. At the same time she completed her studies in film direction at the Stavrakos Film School. She worked as an assistant director to many major Greek filmmakers, such as Yorgos Korras, George Panousopoulos, Vassilis Vafeas, Sotiris Goritsas, Angeliki Andoniou, Olga Malea, and Grigoris Karadinakis. She was also assistant director to Theo Angelopoulos in the films: Ulysses’ Gaze, Eternity and a Day, The Weeping Meadow, The Dust of Time. Her first short film, Winter (1984), won the First Prize at the Athens Student Film Festival. This was followed by two more shorts, Meeting (1986), which won an honorary mention at the Munich International Festival of Student Films, and Recollections (1991), which was selected at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. In 2001 she shot the feature documentary Guardians of Time, which won the FIPRESCI Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in 2002. She wrote the texts for Periplanissis, a book on internationally renowned photographer Josef Koudelka, published by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (1995), and the novel Still Memory (Metechmio Publishers, 2002).

Filmography

1984 Winter ’84 (short)
1986 Meeting (short)
1990 Recollections (short)
2002 Guardians of Time (doc.)
2004 Theo on Theo (doc.) (co-direction with Japanese producer Hayao Shibata)
2004 New Odessa – the Village of the Lake (doc.)
2005 Zerelia, the First Step (short doc.)