Exclusive: Concourse Media has acquired worldwide sales rights to In the Eye of the Storm, a six-part documentary series about lightning rod economist, whistleblower and politician Yanis Varoufakis, who famously resigned from his post as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015.
During his struggle to resolve the debt crisis in the most bankrupt nation in Europe, he befriended and battled with political heavyweights including Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde, Wolfgang Schäuble, Bernie Sanders, Angela Merkel and Barack Obama.
Since his clashes with some of the mightiest institutions on the planet, Varoufakis – celebrated by some, vilified by others – is now a recognizable political figure in the western world and a frequent talking head on news stations including the BBC and CNN. His memoir, Adults In The Room, was named by The Guardian as one of the top 100 most important books of the 21st Century.
Throughout the series, Varoufakis reflects on the challenges faced by the European Union,...
During his struggle to resolve the debt crisis in the most bankrupt nation in Europe, he befriended and battled with political heavyweights including Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde, Wolfgang Schäuble, Bernie Sanders, Angela Merkel and Barack Obama.
Since his clashes with some of the mightiest institutions on the planet, Varoufakis – celebrated by some, vilified by others – is now a recognizable political figure in the western world and a frequent talking head on news stations including the BBC and CNN. His memoir, Adults In The Room, was named by The Guardian as one of the top 100 most important books of the 21st Century.
Throughout the series, Varoufakis reflects on the challenges faced by the European Union,...
- 1/4/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The French cinema-focused awards are regarded as the country’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Ladj Ly’s Oscar hopeful Les Misérables was the big winner at France’s Lumiere awards in Paris on Monday evening (January 27), winning best film for the explosive drama revolving around a stand-off between youngsters and police officers on a tough Paris housing estate.
The French cinema awards - overseen by the Lumière Academy comprising some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries based in France – are regarded as the country’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Ly also won the best screenplay prize for Les Misérables,...
Ladj Ly’s Oscar hopeful Les Misérables was the big winner at France’s Lumiere awards in Paris on Monday evening (January 27), winning best film for the explosive drama revolving around a stand-off between youngsters and police officers on a tough Paris housing estate.
The French cinema awards - overseen by the Lumière Academy comprising some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries based in France – are regarded as the country’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Ly also won the best screenplay prize for Les Misérables,...
- 1/27/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
When you're known for one thing—in the case of Franco-Greek director Costa-Gavras, the political thriller—despite having done a lot more than one thing, and your latest film (you're 86) is something a bit different, I suppose it's natural that critics may have trouble processing that. But it's still strange to me whenever paid audience members, whose job it is to watch films, don't seem able to actually see what's in front of them. In this case, that thing is Costa-Gavras's new drama, Adults in the Room.A theme that nearly all of the director's work has dealt with, and which he's been kind enough to explain in interviews, is the social trap: human beings make systems to organize their lives, and then become trapped by them. Whether it's money, or the legal system, or national boundaries—almost everything we've constructed to help our lives has become a trap at some point.
- 1/6/2020
- MUBI
San Sebastian — Though he’s been based in Paris since 1955 and came up through the French film industry, director Costa-Gavras has never forgotten his roots.
“Those who are born Greek,” said the Peloponnese-born filmmaker at a Saturday press conference, “stay Greek all their lives.”
The once-and-always Greek was not just in San Sebastian to present his latest film “The Adults in the Room,” a ripped-from-the-financial pages docudrama about one-time Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis; the filmmaker was also due to receive the festival’s Donostia Award, which he will accept at a ceremony on Saturday evening.
And so the conference assumed a fittingly career-spanning scope, as the 86-year-old filmmaker took questions about his filmography, his collaborators and his views on the current geopolitical climate.
“We need a Charlie Chaplin to make a movie about that Brazilian guy,” Gavras replied when asked about the situation in South America, indicating his disdain...
“Those who are born Greek,” said the Peloponnese-born filmmaker at a Saturday press conference, “stay Greek all their lives.”
The once-and-always Greek was not just in San Sebastian to present his latest film “The Adults in the Room,” a ripped-from-the-financial pages docudrama about one-time Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis; the filmmaker was also due to receive the festival’s Donostia Award, which he will accept at a ceremony on Saturday evening.
And so the conference assumed a fittingly career-spanning scope, as the 86-year-old filmmaker took questions about his filmography, his collaborators and his views on the current geopolitical climate.
“We need a Charlie Chaplin to make a movie about that Brazilian guy,” Gavras replied when asked about the situation in South America, indicating his disdain...
- 9/21/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Far too many adults, in far too many rooms, have far too many repetitive conversations about the arcane ins-and-outs of EU policymaking in Costa-Gavras’ maddeningly unfocused “Adults in the Room.” Amounting as much to a hagiography of erstwhile Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis (solidly played by Christos Loulis) as a very long-exposure snapshot of the closed-door 2015 negotiations when Greece attempted to revisit the disastrous terms of its EU debt repayment program, the film is worthily intended, meticulously researched and very dull. “I know you’re tired of this Greek drama — so are we Greeks!” quips Yanis at one point and if the play on “Greek drama” is as close as the movie gets to a bona fide joke, it is also a wild overstatement. Events here barely feel dramatized at all, let alone to the point that anyone kills his father or sleeps with his mother.
Apart from Yanis, whose...
Apart from Yanis, whose...
- 8/31/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Costra-Gavras will receive the Donostia Award on September 21 Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival French filmmaker Costa-Gavras is to receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Film Festival next month.
The Greek-born writer/director, whose films include Z, Capital, Eden Is West and The Axe, was last at the festival when Capital competed for the Golden Shell in 2012.
He will collect the award on September 21 at a gala screening of his latest feature film, Adults In The Room, an adaptation of of the memoir of the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
The film, which will have its world premiere in Venice - where Costa-Gavras will receive the Glory to the Filmmaker Award - was published after Varoufakis’s brief term of office in 2015, at the height of Greek’s financial crisis. The cast includes Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Josiane Pinson and Valeria Golino.
Adults In The Room Photo:...
The Greek-born writer/director, whose films include Z, Capital, Eden Is West and The Axe, was last at the festival when Capital competed for the Golden Shell in 2012.
He will collect the award on September 21 at a gala screening of his latest feature film, Adults In The Room, an adaptation of of the memoir of the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
The film, which will have its world premiere in Venice - where Costa-Gavras will receive the Glory to the Filmmaker Award - was published after Varoufakis’s brief term of office in 2015, at the height of Greek’s financial crisis. The cast includes Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Josiane Pinson and Valeria Golino.
Adults In The Room Photo:...
- 8/19/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Costa-Gavras, the Greek-born France-based director of some of the most famed movies of political cinema, from 1969’s “Z” to 1981’s “Missing,” will receive a career achievement Donostia Award at this September’s 67th San Sebastian Film Festival.
The filmmaker will collect his prize on Sept. 21 at a ceremony held at San Sebastian’s Victoria Eugenia, where his latest film, “Adults in the Room,” will screen.
The feature is the cinematic adaptation of the book of the same title written by former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis.According the film’s synopsis, it marks a portrayal of a group of politicians “trapped in an inhuman network of power” in a “brutal circle of Eurogroup meetings which imposed on Greece a dictatorship of austerity.” It’s described as a modern-day tragedy which chronicles the brief six months Varoufakis served in his position.
Costa-Gavras’ was last in San Sebastian in 2012 when his...
The filmmaker will collect his prize on Sept. 21 at a ceremony held at San Sebastian’s Victoria Eugenia, where his latest film, “Adults in the Room,” will screen.
The feature is the cinematic adaptation of the book of the same title written by former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis.According the film’s synopsis, it marks a portrayal of a group of politicians “trapped in an inhuman network of power” in a “brutal circle of Eurogroup meetings which imposed on Greece a dictatorship of austerity.” It’s described as a modern-day tragedy which chronicles the brief six months Varoufakis served in his position.
Costa-Gavras’ was last in San Sebastian in 2012 when his...
- 8/19/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Veteran filmmaker Costa-Gavras will receive a lifetime achievement Donostia Award at this year's 67th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 20-28.
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
- 8/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Veteran filmmaker Costa-Gavras will receive a lifetime achievement Donostia Award at this year's 67th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 20-28.
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
The festival will also host a special screening of the director's adaptation of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' memoirs about his country's financial crisis, Adults in the Room.
The director will be fresh off receiving the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award and screening the film out of competition in Venice.
In a statement, San Sebastian said it "applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing ...
- 8/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
His latest film Adults In The Room is to screen out of competition.
Greek-born French director Costa-Gavras is to be honoured with the the Glory to the Filmmaker prize at the 76th Venice International Film Festival (Aug 28 – Sept 7).
The ceremony will take place on August 31 in the Palazzo del Cinema, ahead of the world premiere of the director’s latest Adults In The Room, screening out of competition.
It is based on the memoir by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, which recounts the torturous negotiations between Greece and the EU during the country’s debt crisis in 2015.
Costa-Gavras previously...
Greek-born French director Costa-Gavras is to be honoured with the the Glory to the Filmmaker prize at the 76th Venice International Film Festival (Aug 28 – Sept 7).
The ceremony will take place on August 31 in the Palazzo del Cinema, ahead of the world premiere of the director’s latest Adults In The Room, screening out of competition.
It is based on the memoir by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, which recounts the torturous negotiations between Greece and the EU during the country’s debt crisis in 2015.
Costa-Gavras previously...
- 8/14/2019
- ScreenDaily
The project is based on the memoir by controversial former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
Adults In The Room, the first feature by Greek director Costa-Gavras to shoot in the filmmaker’s homeland, has sparked a row in the press and on social media in the country when it was announced the project will receive €630,000 in state funding via the country’s new cash rebate scheme.
It is being argued by some opposed to the controversial project that it is not the best use of public money in a cash-strapped country like Greece.
The film is based on the memoir Adults...
Adults In The Room, the first feature by Greek director Costa-Gavras to shoot in the filmmaker’s homeland, has sparked a row in the press and on social media in the country when it was announced the project will receive €630,000 in state funding via the country’s new cash rebate scheme.
It is being argued by some opposed to the controversial project that it is not the best use of public money in a cash-strapped country like Greece.
The film is based on the memoir Adults...
- 4/16/2019
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Leading European talent agent Richard Cook has called for a radical re-thinking of both the European film festival system and of public funding bodies like Eurimages and Media.
Cook also called for festivals and funders alike to pay far more attention to talent development, during the Binger-Screen International interview at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht.
“Within the European funding bodies, there is a misplaced emphasis on distribution; that somehow most of European film’s problems relate to a deficit in this area,” said Cook, co-founder of Dublin and London-based The Lisa Richards Agency, whose clients include Pierce Brosnan and Cillian Murphy.
“The problem isn’t one of distribution, it is one of too many bad films made that the public has no interest in seeing. Europe should focus on funding less films and better ones. This implies a more detailed approach at an early point in the process, specifically at script stage.”
Unwieldy beast
The...
Cook also called for festivals and funders alike to pay far more attention to talent development, during the Binger-Screen International interview at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht.
“Within the European funding bodies, there is a misplaced emphasis on distribution; that somehow most of European film’s problems relate to a deficit in this area,” said Cook, co-founder of Dublin and London-based The Lisa Richards Agency, whose clients include Pierce Brosnan and Cillian Murphy.
“The problem isn’t one of distribution, it is one of too many bad films made that the public has no interest in seeing. Europe should focus on funding less films and better ones. This implies a more detailed approach at an early point in the process, specifically at script stage.”
Unwieldy beast
The...
- 10/6/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The Greek paper Athens Voice speculated on the urban myth that Danae Stratou, daughter of a textile magnate and the wife of the Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, is the woman in the '90s Pulp classic "Common People." The reasoning was that Stratou attended Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1983 to 1988, where she possibly could have met Jarvis Cocker, who was studying film there in '88. Also, she is rich and famous! Since school, Stratou became a successful artist: She represented Greece in the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and currently lives in Austin, Texas. * Updated: On Twitter, there is a much more likely contender for the title of the rich Greek woman slumming it: Katerina Kana, who also attended Central Saint Martins and says in Lifo that she met Jarvis Cocker and told him she wanted to live like common people and doing whatever common people...
- 5/7/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
John Stamos scored quite an exclusive invitation on Thursday.
The actor was invited by President Obama to attend the Greek Independence Day reception at the White House, where the commander-in-chief spoke personally with the star.
"Obama told John that his daughters used to watch Full House but now they're into Vine," a source tells People.
The president asked Stamos, 51, what he's working on and the star said a new comedy for Fox, according to the source. "Obama said he likes Fox's comedy programming and that John was the best looking Greek around." (No scoop on the Full House reboot details,...
The actor was invited by President Obama to attend the Greek Independence Day reception at the White House, where the commander-in-chief spoke personally with the star.
"Obama told John that his daughters used to watch Full House but now they're into Vine," a source tells People.
The president asked Stamos, 51, what he's working on and the star said a new comedy for Fox, according to the source. "Obama said he likes Fox's comedy programming and that John was the best looking Greek around." (No scoop on the Full House reboot details,...
- 4/17/2015
- by Rennie Dyball, @renniedyball
- People.com - TV Watch
A new trailer for the Russell Brand documentary The Emperor's New Clothes has been revealed.
Michael Winterbottom directs the documentary, which focuses on the ever-growing divide between the richest and poorest members of society and attempts to expose bankers' role in the economic downturn.
The clip opens with Brand saying: "Inequality is getting greater. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is struggling."
The Emperor's New Clothes is released in cinemas on April 24.
Brand was recently voted the world's fourth most influential thinker in a new poll.
Prospect magazine's annual list saw the comedian and YouTuber rub shoulders with economist and author Thomas Piketty and Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The comic has spent the last year campaigning for the removal of the "nation state" and for a social revolution, whereby "corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility and economic inequality" are axed.
Michael Winterbottom directs the documentary, which focuses on the ever-growing divide between the richest and poorest members of society and attempts to expose bankers' role in the economic downturn.
The clip opens with Brand saying: "Inequality is getting greater. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is struggling."
The Emperor's New Clothes is released in cinemas on April 24.
Brand was recently voted the world's fourth most influential thinker in a new poll.
Prospect magazine's annual list saw the comedian and YouTuber rub shoulders with economist and author Thomas Piketty and Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The comic has spent the last year campaigning for the removal of the "nation state" and for a social revolution, whereby "corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility and economic inequality" are axed.
- 4/1/2015
- Digital Spy
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