An Evening with Tassos Boulmetis
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Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Gefyra, a collaborative program between the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University and the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.
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In person: Q&A with filmmaker Tassos Boulmetis and John K. Papadopoulos, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Archaeology & Classics and Director of Athenian Agora Excavations.
Across four feature films, celebrated Greek writer-director and UCLA alumnus Tassos Boulmetis (The Dream Factory, A Touch of Spice, Mythopathy and 1968) has explored the relationship between our inner worlds and the larger myths that shape us within a specifically Greek historical, cultural and political context.
1968 (Greece, 2018)
When the Greek and Czech national basketball teams squared off in Athens’ Panathenaic Stadium in 1968 for the European Cup, every Greek had something riding on the game. In this riveting docudrama, writer-director Tassos Boulmetis seamlessly blends reenactments with archival footage and contemporary interviews to transcend traditional sports film cliches and illuminate the fascinating network of personal and political histories that intersected on the court that fateful night.
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