Tasos Boulmetis (Directing)

Tasos Boulmetis (Greek: Τάσος Μπουλμέτης, Istanbul, 1957) is a Greek director. He has directed the films Politiki Kuzina, Notias and 1968. Politiki Kuzina is the film that has made the most tickets in Greece. He was born in 1957 in Istanbul but in 1964 with the expulsions of Greek citizens of Istanbul he settled in Greece. He initially studied physics at the University of Athens and then with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation he studied film and television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He returned to Greece and began directing television shows and commercials. He also worked with digital special effects. In 1990 he made his directorial debut with the film Dream Factory, which was shot on Beta sp video and converted to 35 mm film. a pioneering technique for its time. DREAM FACTORY won eight state awards, and the Fantasy Award at the Houston...Read More