Eleni Alexandraki

Eleni Alexandrakis was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied film at the Sorbonne University, Paris I and at the National Film and TV School of England. She has written, directed and produced a few fiction films as well as documentaries among which: « A Drop in the Ocean» (fiction), « Easter is in the air» (documentary) « The Woman who longed for Home» (fiction) Angel and the Weightlifter (fiction). She has received many prizes in Greece and abroad. Her film « A Drop in the Ocean» was presented at the Forum of the Berlin Film Festival, in 1996, where Eleni got the Mionneto Film Award. The same film traveled in many festivals around the world where the main actress Amalia Moutoussi got a few awards. In 2005 « The Woman who Missed Home » got a Special Mention at the Rhodes Eco Film Festival and Nicos Papazoglou got a State Award for the Music of the Film. In 2009 « Angel and the Weightlifter » got a Gold Remi Award in WorldFest Houston. Her last feature length documentary is "Kostis Papagiorgis, the sweetest misanthrope" that got the Greek Association Critics Awards at the 20th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.