Constantine Giannaris

Known for DirectingBorn 1959-01-01 (age 67) Sydney, Australia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)

From the Edge of the City

One Day in August

Hostage

Visions of Europe

Constantine Giannaris: The Short Films

Spring Awakening

Trojans

Caught Looking

A Place in the Sun

North of Vortex

Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts

3 Steps to Heaven

Jean Genet Is Dead

Man at Sea

Travelogue

Without

A Desperate Vitality: The Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Battle of Tuntenhaus

Greeks (Greek Love and Sapphic Sophistication)

A Matter of Life and Death

Disco's Revenge