George Louridas
Photo by Alexis Kokolakis
George Louridas (born 13 October 1987) is a Greek filmmaker and theater director, director of photography, sketcher,
production designer and producer.
He is currently living and working in between Amiens, Thessaloniki, Athens and Kalamata.
George Louridas was born in Kalamata.
He first got a degree in Accounting from the Technological Institute of Pireaus in Athens (2010).
After, he got a diploma in the “Organizational Structure of Hotels” as a part of the “Human Resources Development”
at Fohnsdorf, Austria (2012).
He studied filmmaking in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Fine Arts department.
He is the instigator & owner of the art-film company “Dead Company” .
Filmography
Short Films
2012 Natural Sellout (Drama - 12’)
Official Selection:
International Film Festival of Cyprus - Nicosia (2012)
International Film Festival of Patras (2012)
Special screenings:
National Theater of Thessaloniki (2015)
2012 Lifeless (5’) & Tiny Space (5’)
Were both made as a personal view of the city of Kalamata
Screenings:
Kallitehniko Steki Kalamata (2012)
Festival Miden Kalamata (2013)
2014 Rote Decay (Hotel Drama – 14’)
Screenings:
Hotel Rex Kalamata (2014)
ASTO Film team – Patras (2014)
2015 Bodies Erected (Human Drama / Experimental – 21’)
Screenings:
Hotel Rex Kalamata (2015)
Filoproodi Enosi Xanthis (2016)
Utopia - Komotini (2016)
2016 The Dead Painter (Drama – 12’)
Contributions/Collaborations
2012 Monologue (Drama – 12’)
Collaboration in direction & scenario with:
Jim Bourolias, Emily Magkourilou, George Mamolis
Screenings:
Kallitehniko Steki Kalamata – Cine Club (2012)
2015 Couronne de Daphne (Gangster Drama / Neo noir – 35’)
Contributed as: Producer (in all stages of production), Director of Photography and Editor
Director: Ovannes Sogkogian
Screenings:
Hotel Rex Kalamata (2015)
2016 "think that man is only a recent invention a figure not old enough and that it will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form" (Experimental short movie / in Post Production in Germany)
Contributed as: Director of Photography – Editor
Director: Hagen Reier
Documentaries
2015 Festive Lone (about Christmas & Loneliness – 50’)
Screenings:
Kleftes art space – Athens (2015)
Micropolis – Thessaloniki (2015)
Prosehos - Kalamata (2015)
Theater Productions
2015 - 2016 “Human One” project of one-shot plays
Performances:
Theater Embros – Athens (2015)
Open Theater D. Spandidos – Lakonia, Sparta (2015)
Xanadu - Xanthi (2016)
Aristotle’s Central Library Amphitheater – Thessaloniki (2016)
Exhibitions
As a sketcher
2011 – 2014 Comic series “Ak1ra & Chris”
Participations:
2nd Panhellenic Comic Festival in Athens (2012)
Comic Dom Athens (2013)
13th Comic-n-Play festival in Thessaloniki (2014)
Sketching & Story
2015 “Self-biographing for 11 trillion persons”
Participations:
1st Comic-Con festival of Thessaloniki (2015)
2nd Comic Festival in Patras (2015)
14th Comic-n-play festival in Thessaloniki (2015)
15th Comic-n-play festival in Thessaloniki (2016)
Special Contributions
Sketching of the poster for the Film Club of Kalamata for April's screenings (2016)
Organization of Events
2014 Four-day “Avant Garde event” in Kalamata, dedicated & with the presence
of internationally acclaimed director Ivan Stanev and Greek awarded filmmaker Antonis Tolakis.
2015 Painting exhibition of Aggelos Papoutsis in Thessaloniki
Other
2016 Online Judge for the Watersprite film festival, Oxford
Pages
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5954024/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/user24378284
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi8XRuNc63naCiiwpDbnnag
Facebook (theater group “Human 1”): https://web.facebook.com/%CE%86%CE%BD%CE%B8%CF%81%CF%89%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%82-1-719078101556865/?ref=br_rs
Contact
[email protected]
