For the second year in a row, Olympiacos Piraeus roared back from a
double-digit deficit to become the Turkish Airlines Euroleague champion. The
Reds bested Real Madrid 100-88 at The O2 in London after trailing by 17 at the
end of the opening quarter and in doing so became just the fourth team to win
back-to-back Euroleague titles in the Final Four era. In something that has
become characteristic of the Reds, they got tremendous contributions from their
second unit, led by Kyle Hines and Pero Antic, to climb back. Then Euroleague MVP
Vassilis Spanoulis heated up in the third quarter and Olympiacos dominated the
final 10 minutes as thousands of red-clad fans sang and clapped the night away.
Euroleague MVP Vassilis Spanoulis led the charge with 21 points – all in the
second half! – as six Olympiacos players scored in double figures. Acie Law
collected 20 points and dished 5 assists, Hines added 12 points, Kostas Sloukas
11 and Stratos Perperoglou and Antic scored 10 apiece. The title is the third
continental crown in Olympiacos’s illustrious history. Before beating CSKA
Moscow last season in Istanbul, it defeated FC Barcelona in the 1997 title game
in Rome. Rudy Fernandez led Madrid with 21 points, Sergio Rodriguez scored 17
and Sergio Llull finished with 14. Madrid lost its first final since it
defeated the Reds in the 1995 Euroleague final in Zaragoza, Spain, but remains
European basketball’s winningest team with eight Euroleague titles.
Τρίτη 28 Μαΐου 2013
Τετάρτη 8 Μαΐου 2013
Toronto Film Festival Heads To Athens For Fifth City-To-City Program / Η Αθήνα τιμώμενη πόλη στο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου του Τορόντο
Toronto Film Festival Heads To Athens For Fifth City-To-City Program
The Toronto International Film Festival is going to Athens this year in
the fifth edition of the festival's City to City program.
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Festival, and
Dimitri Eipides, International Programmer for the Festival, announced today
that the Greek city will be the focus of the 2013 program.
“City to City looks for cinematic hot spots around the
world," said Bailey. “We want to introduce our audience to new generations
of filmmakers unafraid to rewrite the rules. When we started thinking about the
startlingly original films emerging recently from this ancient and contemporary
city, the perfect choice for us this year was Athens."
“After a long period of hibernation, Greek cinema has
finally found its way back to the forefront. A number of young filmmakers —
most of them fresh out of film school or, at best, with a couple of shorts to
their name — turned things around. Where
others saw devastation, they saw inspiration,” said Eipides. “Working with
minimal means, often exchanging services on each other’s productions, they
churned out films which gained attention around the world. Hopefully this new
wave of international exposure will give Greek cinema the confidence to
communicate its message from a position where national boundaries will no
longer matter.”
The City to City series "showcases filmmakers
living and working in a selected city, regardless of where their films are
set." Cities featured in past programmes include Tel Aviv, Istanbul,
Buenos Aires and Mumbai.
The announcement of the City to City lineup will be
made in July. The 38th Toronto
International Film Festival runs from
September 5 to 15, 2013.
Τρίτη 7 Μαΐου 2013
Satire and laughs at World Press Cartoon / Έλληνας ο νικητής στον Παγκόσμιο Διαγωνισμό Γελοιογραφίας
Satire and laughs at World Press Cartoon
The World Press Cartoon 2013 carries the scars of the
financial crisis – not in quality but in the themes chosen.
Sponsorship was also hit by the crisis this year with
some companies abandoning the annual event in Sintra in Portugal. So it wasn’t
surprising that the Grand Prix, the
first prize, in the editorial category went to a crisis-themed cartoon by Greek
artist Kountouris.
He said: “I
dedicate it to the victims of the crisis and I wish that very soon we can have
the Europe we all want, the Europe which cares about the people and not the
banks.”
More than 500 press cartoons published in 63 countries
were shown in Sintra.
The forum has been running for nine years. Portugal
will hold municipal elections in the autumn. The current mayor of Sintra have
said they will not stand again, but both he and the director of the cartoon
forum are reluctant to contemplate the end of the World Press Cartoon forum.
Mayor Fernando Seara said: “I will continue to come to Sintra to visit future World Press
Cartoons. I think they’ll be a good bet with more and more participants and a
growing global interest.” Director Antonio Antunes added: “I think that World Press Cartoon is going
to become a really strong event that is not over. The next mayor of Sintra will
also want to continue with World Press Cartoon. At the least I would be
moderately optimistic.”
Prizes are given in three categories – editorial,
humorous drawing and caricature. The humour this year came from Iranian artist
Saeed Sedeghi, who explained the premise: “It is a satire about civil law in
which it says – compared to some individuals who do not observe the law – some
animals seem to be more law-abiding.”
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