BRIEF HISTORY
filmfabrik Productions was founded in 2000 in Thessaloniki, by the owner Anastasia Christoforidou, who grew up and studied in Switzerland. She is a director, camera women, editor and screenwriter. She studied in Switzerland and Germany from 1994 to 1999, photography at GAF (Switzerland), cinematography at Focal (Switzerland) and the Athanor Akademie (Germany).
Alongside her studies, she worked from 1995 to 1998 at well known TV-Channels in Switzerland and Germany, such as TELE ZUERI, STAR TV, TELE M1, ISA TV and for video/film production companies, such as RINCOVISION, CINERENT, VIDEO ONE, JOB TV. She also worked as a freelance camera woman for various Swiss and German TV-Channels, gaining the necessary experience in the professional audio-visual sector.
In Greece she has completed approximately 50 educational short films, fiction and documentary, for the THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL (programs: "GO CINEMA", "CULTURE GAMES", "MINIDOC") with high school children throughout Greece. She also has taught cinematography in schools (such as IRIS and PASENI) and at seminars (such as PYXIDA CENTRE, FILM MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI and FABULA). She has produced a series of industrial documentaries for numerous companies in different sectors: construction, medicine, food and education, and created TV commercials and television programs «TICKET» and «TRAVELLING IN TRADITION».
The personal filmography of Anastasia Christoforidou also includes five short films and one documentary. Four of these films have won film awards. Her first feature documentary is "WHY IS THE MEADOW WEEPING, MR. ANGELOPOULOS?", a documentary about the eponymous film by Theo Angelopoulos, which was screened on Greek Television by ET1 in 2005 and by ET3 in 2012.
PERSONAL FILMOGRAPHY OF ANASTASIA CHRISTOFORIDOU
SHORT FILMS
- “A FACE”
(Switzerland, 5', BETA SP 1996) - “DON’T KISS PEKINESE”
(Switzerland, 5', BETA SP, 1996) - “AND THE DOGS LICK MY HEART”
(Switzerland, 6', BETA SP/16 mm, 1997)
Participated in Mylos Film Festival, Thessaloniki 1997
Participated in Drama Film Festival, Competition section, 1997 - “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FEAR, OR THE PRODUCT FROM THE BEGINNING TILL THE END”
(Germany, 5', BETA SP, 1998)
Participated in Mylos Film Festival, Thessaloniki 1998
Participated in the Festival Suisse de film et video de la FSCA 1998 - “ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BURGHAUSEN”
(Germany, 33', BETA SP/16 mm, 1999)
Participated in Mylos Film Festival, Thessaloniki 1999
Participated in the Drama Film Festival, Competition section 1999
Participated in the Fantastic Film Festival, Athens 2000 - “WHY IS THE MEADOW WEEPING, MR. ANGELOPOULOS?”
(Greece, 54', BETA SP, 2004)
Participated in the Documentary Film Festival, Thessaloniki, 2004
Participated in the Platform Film Festival Athens, 2004
Participated in Strange Screen Film Festival, Thessaloniki 2004
FILM AWARDS
- “AND THE DOGS LICK MY HEART”
1st Award Short Film Festival Mylos, Thessaloniki, 1997 - “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FEAR, OR THE PRODUCT FROM THE BEGINNING TILL THE END”
3rd Award Short Film Festival Mylos, Thessaloniki, 1998 - “ONLY THE DEAD KNOWS BURGHAUSEN”
1st Award Short Film Festival Mylos, Thessaloniki, 1999 - “WHY IS THE MEADOW WEEPING, MR. ANGELOPOULOS?”
2nd Award Creative Documentary, Strange Screen Festival Thessaloniki, 2004