Constantine Giannaris

Directing·Jan 1, 1959· Sydney, Australia

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Konstantinos Giannaris (Sydney, 1959) is a Greek film director. Born in Sydney. He studied economics, history and philosophy at Keele and Birmingham Universities in Britain. His film career began in England, where he completed short, low-budget independent films. He was involved in the 1982 experimental English documentary The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts in which gay teenagers ask English heterosexuals about their views on homosexuality. His first Greek film, A Place in the Sun in 1995, won the Best Greek Film Award at the Drama Short Film Festival. It was followed in the same year by the film Close to Paradise and in 1998 by the film From the Edge of the City, which won the second prize for Best Film of the Ministry of Culture. In 2001 he filmed Dekapentaugustos and in 2004 Homer. His films have been screened at many international film festivals and forums. His first feature film Near Paradise was financed and shot in London. Today he works and lives in Athens. He has openly declared that he is homosexual and an atheist.

Film	Credit
Spring Awakening2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Man at Sea2011 · Writer, Director, Screenplay	Writer, Director, Screenplay
TTravelogue2011 · Director	Director
Hostage2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Visions of Europe2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
One Day in August2002 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
From the Edge of the City1998 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
3 Steps to Heaven1995 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Place in the Sun1994 · Director	Director
Constantine Giannaris: The Short Films1994 · Director	Director
AA Desperate Vitality: The Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini1992 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
North of Vortex1991 · Director	Director
Caught Looking1991 · Director	Director
AA Matter of Life and Death1991 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication)1991 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)1990 · Director	Director
Trojans1990 · Director of Photography, Writer, Director	Director of Photography, Writer, Director
Jean Genet Is Dead1989 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
DDisco's Revenge1989 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer