Vassilis Mazomenos

Vassilis Mazomenos
Mazomenos in Tallinn Black Nights Film Fest.
Born	(1964-11-12)12 November 1964 Athens
Nationality	Greek
Occupation	Film director, Screenwriter, Producer
Years active	1995–
Notable work	Money, A Mythology of Darkness, 10th day, Lines
Movement	Art cinema, Avant-garde cinema, German Expressionism, Hyperrealism, Experimental cinema
Website	http://www.mazomenos.com/

Vassilis Mazomenos (Greek: Βασίλης Μαζωμένος; born 1964, Athens) is a producer, screenwriter and director and member of both the European Film Academy ^[1] and the Greek Hellenic Film Academy ^[2] He is also a production designer ^[3] and a poet.^[4]

Life

Mazomenos studied political science at the University of Athens.^[5] He is the son of the fighter of the National Resistance Mimis Mazomenos. His granmother was first cousin of Alexandros Papanastasiou, the first president of the Greek Republic (1924). His grandfather, was an economic immigrant in the United States and returned Greece to fight as a volunteer in the Balkan Wars.

Career

Mazomenos has worked as artistic director at the Kalamata Documentary International Film Festival and was also the vice-president of the Greek Film Centre. He has been a member of international juries in film festivals. From 2005 to 2011 he taught film at a well known Art College. Founder and director of Horme Pictures ^[6] where he is teaching film and producing shorts from 2012.^[7] Mazomenos has worked as an author, writing for Film and Art in newspapers and art magazines. Also he has published in Gavriilides editions three collections of poems (2003, 2005, 2008).

International film festivals

Mazomenos' films have been accepted for International participation at the Montreal World Film Festival (2009 and 2012), the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (2009 and 2016), the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in 2009, the Fantasporto International Film Festival (1999, 2001, 2010, 2013, 2017), the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (1995, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004), the Cairo International Film Festival (2009), the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in 2000, the Sitges Film Festival in Spain in 1999, the FEST (Belgrade Film Festival) (1996 and 1997), the Chicago International Arthouse FILM FEST (2015) , the Hellenic Film Academy Awards (2010, 2013), the Panorama of European Cinema (1998, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2012),^[8] the London Greek Film Festival (2012, 2013), the Cyprus International Film Festival (2013) and at many others.

Awards and Nominations

Mazomenos has been twice nominated for the Hellenic Film Academy awards (2010, 2013). He was nominated for the European Fantasy Award in 1999 for his film Money, A Mythology of Darkness and won the same year the jury's special award in Fantasporto for the same film. He was three times awarded in Thessaloniki International Film Festival for his films The Triumph of Time (1996), Money, A Mythology of Darkness (1998) and Remembrance (2002). He has been twice awarded in London Greek Film Festival (2012, 2013) for his films Guilt and 10th day . He won the Jury’s Special Award at the Panorama of European Cinema for his feature 10th day , won also the Special award in Cyprus International Film Festival (Cyprus) for the same film. For 10th day he was also nominee for the Best director (Antonioni Award) in the Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Fest.^[9] Mazomenos also has been awarded for his work as a producer in short films.^[10]

Jury's award in Fantasporto 1999

Filmography

Feature films

Director Scriptwriter Producer

• Days of Rage (1995)^[11][12]
• The Triumph of Time (1996)^[13][14]
• Money, A Mythology of Darkness (1998)^[15][16]
• Remembrance (2002)^[17][18]
• Words and Sins (2004)^[19][20]
• Guilt (2009)^[21][22][23]
• 10th day (2012) ^[24][25][26]
• Lines (2016)^{[27][28][29][30]}

Actor

• Rupture (2016), as Real estate agent^[31]
• Short Cut (2015) as Folk idol^[32]
• The Icon (2015) as Narrator^[33]
• The sentimentalists (2014) as Bank director^[34]
• Remembrance (2002) as Narrator^[17]

The poster of "LINES "

The official poster of "Guilt"

Production designer

• Days of Rage (1995)^[11]
• The Triumph of Time (1996)^[13]
• Money, A Mythology of Darkness (1998)^[15]
• Remembrance (2002)^[17]
• Words and Sins (2004)^[19]
• 10th day (2012) ^[24]

The official poster of "Money"

Short films

producer

• Rupture (2016)
• Double (2016)
• Familyar Photo (2016)
• Felicita (2016)
• Holy Meal (2016)
• Joogbox (2016)
• Keep on Doing (2016)
• Bookless (2015)
• Mother's Son (2015)
• Muscles (2015)
• One Size (Short)
• Short Cut (2015)
• The Icon (2015)
• Depth (2015)
• A Breath (2015)
• Call (2014)
• Waiting (2014)
• House Internal (2014)
• Where? (2014)
• Stairs (2014)
• Pass (2014)

Scriptwriter, director , producer

• City (1988)
• The end (1990)

The official poster of "10th day"

The official poster of "Days of Rage"

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vassilis Mazomenos.

• Vassilis Mazomenos at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site
• Horme Pictures
• Vassilis Mazomenos in Cine gr
• Vassilis Mazomenos in the history of Greek cinema