We are happy to present "RESURFACE" an award winning, feature–length documentary,
that will be available for screening at the 6th TIDF.

RESURFACE is a touching portrait of a young quadriplegic swimmer during the 2004 Paralympic games of Athens.
Duration: 62' subtitled in English and French.

RESURFACE won three awards, went to several festivals and was screened in one channel already:

Awards:
Best Direction, 29th Palermo International Sport Film Festival
Greek Film Center Award, 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Audience Award, 2nd Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

Other Festivals:
1rst Athens Emotion Picture Documentary & Disability Festival
30th Drama International Film Festival
1rst Nicosia International Documentary Film Festival
22nd Parnü International Documentary & Anthropology Film Festival
5th European Film Festival San Antonio
2nd New York Greek Film Festival
10th Patra International Panorama of Independent Film & Video Makers

Doc Market:
9th MEDIMED Sitges, Barcelona

TV Screening:
PRISMA+, National Greek Digital Channel


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Audience choice award in the 2nd Los Angeles Greek Film Festival for the documentary RESURFACE directed by Alexandre Papanicolaou & Emilie Yannoukou.

Persona Production, the directors Alexandre Papanicolaou & Emilie Yannoukou, and the silver paralympic winner in the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games Alexander Taxildaris, are happy to announce you that their documentary film RESURFACE got the audience choice award in the 2nd Los Angeles Greek Film Festival.

Resurface was awarded with the audience choice award in the category feature-length documentaries during the closing gala of the 2nd Los Angeles Greek Film Festival the 29th of June 2008.

Previews awards of the film

- Best Direction Award in the 29th Palermo International Sport Film Festival in Italy, December 2007.

- Greek Film Center Award for a best medium-length documentary in the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, March 2008. (The film Resurface was presented in this festival under the title ALEX).

Next screenings

- 22nd Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (Pärnu, Estonia), Monday 7th of July 2008 at 18.00.
- 10th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video. The International Film Festival of Patras - Greece. Between the 22 and 30 September 2008 in Patra, Greece.

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We are happy to present "RESURFACE" an award winning, feature–length documentary, at the 2nd Los Angeles Greek Film Festival.

This documentary (67') received the Paladino d'Oro award for best direction (section: Paralympics) at the Palermo Sport Film Festival (Palermo-Italy) in December 2007 and the Greek Film Center award, for best medium-length documentary at the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Thessaloniki-Greece) in March 2008.

"RESURFACE" is a touching portrait of a young quadriplegic swimmer during the 2004 Paralympic games of Athens.

Duration: 60' subtitled in English.

"RESURFACE" will be screened at the 2nd Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, saturday, June 28 2008 at 1:00 p.m. at the LINWOOD DUNN THEATRE in Hollywood.

Synopsis

Alex is 25 years old. he was left a quadriplegic after a diving accident four years ago. Since then, he has been swimming competitively. In order to transform his handicap into an opportunity he is participating in the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. In the swimming-pool, Maria, his coach, is training him harder and harder. She is anxious, and all this pressure makes her very emotional when unexpected situations occur, but she wants to believe in a medal. Alex, on the other hand, is more self-controlled and pragmatic. His family and friends are strongly united around him. Will he win the medal that everyone is hoping for?

RESURFACE 40" trailer

A few words about us

For the past six years we have been working together and we live in France since 1997.

We directed the short documentary The Cell (2004) with Melpo Gavatha, about the refugee neighborhood of Alexandra's avenue in Athens, Greece. The Cell (2004) was presented in Thessaloniki's Documentary Film Festival in 2004. We also worked with Giorgos Avgeropoulos for the TV show Exantas for the reportage Paris 2005, that was also presented in Thessaloniki's Documentary Film Festival in 2006. Our second documentary film Resurface (67’), is the story of Alexandros Taxildaris, a quadriplegic young man, who participates in the Paralympics of Athens in 2004. Resurface was presented in several festivals (Festival Emotion Pictures 2007, Drama Film Festival 2007, Palermo Sport Film Festival 2007). The film was awrded in Palermo for Best direction, also in the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in 2008, for best medium length documentary from the Greek Film Centre.

We are also working as freelancers for the Ministry of Agriculture in France, and for music labels in Greece and in France..

Since 2002, we are also working as freelance photographers. Our photos were published in several magazines in Europe like Independent (UK), Maison Française (France), Gala (France), Le Moniteur (France), Mezzanine (Russia), Elle Interiör (Sweden), Fraü Im Spiegel (Germany), Lux Deco (Portugal), Status (Greece), Vogue (Greece), Life & Style (Greece), Hello (in a few countries) and several others.

We are also collaborating with the architects Reichen & Robert in Paris.

Alexandre Papanicolaou & Emilie Yannoukou

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