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Independent production company Metaphor Entertainment, LLC today announced plans to produce "Land of The Angels," a film depicting the termination of Salonica, Greece's Sephardic Jewish population and the Sonderkommando uprising at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in which 135 Salonica...

Last month, members of the Greek Cypriot and Greek American community of all generations and ages, including an impressive number of people from the general audience packed the Stathakion Cultural Center in Astoria, Queens in response to CYPRECO’s invitation...

Local double bass player and modern art music composer Nick Tsiavos returns to the stage with the first of a two part concert series entitled Is this what you believe? Tsiavos will be joined at the Forty Five Downstairs by...

A new institution for Greek students in Victoria is being born. It is the student film festival, bringing together classes or groups of students, or individual students, from different schools that teach the Greek language. It is each teacher's...

The national Museum of Belgrade in cooperation with cultural centers of the European Union (Greek Cultural Institute, Italian Institute, French Institute, Goethe Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum), along with the embassy of Turkey and Belgium, are organizing the...

The Herald Sun reported that Victorians will pay almost $250,000 to bring one of the worst serial killings in our history to the big screen. Filming of the multi-million-dollar movie adaptation of the Snowtown murders, partly financed by the Victorian...

The sexy Greek-American New Yorker, Justine Cotsonas first appeared on the cast of As The World Turns for the role of Sophie Duran. The 24 year old studied acting at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her big...

Tom Hanks is keeping it Greek.  He is working on another project with Nia Vardalos. The new movie is a comedy called Larry Crowne starring Julia Roberts and is about a middle-aged man who is looking to reinvent himself....

The Greek-American film producer, Stratton Leopold is on board as co-producer for Wolfman, a remake of the 1941 classic horror film. The Executive Vice President of Production at Paramount Pictures was born in Savannah, GA where he owns and...

George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and ABC News’s Chief Washington Correspondent, who was President Clinton’s senior political advisor and Communications Director; George Pelecanos, the award-winning author, film and television producer whose newest book, The...

The Golden Globe Awards has been honoring the best in motion pictures and television for 67 years. On Sunday January 17th, viewers from over 130 countries were watching while the Golden Globe Awards was brought to  life once again...

Laura Neri, a director of Greek origins is anxiously awaiting the premiere of her first feature film, Kill the Habit. The film will premiere at Cinequest next month. Neri wrote, directed and produced the film that was shot here...

Thousands of Greeks have gathered in San Diego for the largest Greek Dance event in the US. The weekend began on Thursday, January 14 with an Agiasmos service to bless the convening of FDF. It was followed by the...

Alexa Davalos was born in France, but is of Greek descent.  She speaks both Greek and French fluently.   She was born into a family of actors. Her mother was an actress and her grandfather, Richard Davalos starred next to...

"Alice's Attic" just won a new award for Best Animation at the Very Short Movies Film Festival. The stop-motion animated short was directed by Greek-American Robyn Yannoukos. The film is about a character who is forced to submit to...