Athina Rachel Tsangari

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Athina Rachel Tsangari ( Greek Αθηνά Ραχήλ Τσαγγάρη , born April 2, 1966 in Athens ) is a Greek actress , film director and producer who became known primarily through her collaboration with director and producer Giorgos Lanthimos and her 2010 film Attenberg .

Life

After attending school, Athina Tsangari studied literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . She finished her studies with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Literature). She then moved to New York City in the 1990s , where she studied performance at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University . In 1991 she made her debut as an actress in a supporting role in the Marauders ( Slacker ) by Richard Linklater , a film now considered a classic of the low-budget film applies.

She then studied directing at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated in 1999 with a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA). During this time she made the short film Fit in 1994 . After completing her studies, she initially devoted herself to directing and made her directorial debut in a feature film in 2000 with The Slow Business of Going .

In 2003 she returned to Greece for the first time, where she shot video clips for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In the following years she worked again and again with the director and producer Giorgos Lanthimos, whereby both alternately directed or produced the film.

Athina Tsangari first produced the experimental film Kinetta , shot by Lanthimos with the film production company Haos Films, which she had recently founded. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is now often referred to as the “first new Greek film”. After living and working in Austin for another time , she returned to Greece in 2008, where she produced the film Dogtooth (Kynodontas), again made by Lanthimos in 2009 .

Lanthimos then produced her second feature film, Attenberg (2010), which received much international attention . The young French actress Ariane Labed , who played her first leading role in the film, also contributed to the success of the film . She played a young Greek woman who lives in a faceless working-class town on the coast and is confronted with her father's cancer and her first sexual experiences. The part of 'Marina' brought Labed the Coppa Volpi as best actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010 . The film was also on the official shortlist for feature films for the 2011 European Film Awards .

Her last collaboration with Lanthimos so far is the film Alpis (2011), which was released in May 2012. This film was again directed by Lanthimos while she is again a co-producer.

In 2013 she played a Greek housekeeper named Ariadne in Richard Linklater's film Before Midnight . In the same year she was appointed to the competition jury of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival .

Her third film to date, Chevalier , premiered in 2015 . The film has an all-male cast and is about six men on a yacht playing a game whose goal is to find out who is "the best at everything". It won the award for best film at the London Film Festival .

In 2016 it was announced that Tsangari will be staging 2017 for the first time at the Salzburg Festival ( Lulu ).

In 2017 she was selected as a jury member for the short film competition and the Cinéfondation series at the 70th Cannes International Film Festival . In the same year she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

In 2018, Tsangari was appointed jury president of the Orizzonti section at the 75th Venice International Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1991: Marauder (Slacker) (actress)
  • 1994: Fit (script, director, producer)
  • 2000: The Slow Business of Going (screenplay, director, producer)
  • 2005: Kinetta (producer)
  • 2009: Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (producer)
  • 2010: Attenberg (screenplay, director, producer)
  • 2011: Alpis (producer)
  • 2013: Before Midnight (actress)
  • 2015: Chevalier (screenplay, director)

Background literature

  • Why is Greece a monster, Ms. Tsangari? In conversation: Athina Rachel Tsangari . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Pictures and Times (Z 6) of May 5, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athina Rachel Tsangari about her film “Attenberg” (berliner-filmfestivals.de)
  2. ↑ Attenberg - Interview with Athina Rachel Tsangari ( Memento from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (negativ-film.de)
  3. ↑ Athina Rachel Tsangari: "Just don't take it so seriously!" . In: Die Presse of January 8, 2011
  4. ^ Salzburg Festival : Lulu , accessed on November 18, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
personal data
SURNAME Tsangari, Athina Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Τσαγγάρη, Αθηνά (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek film producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens , Greece