Alexa Davalos was born in France, but is of Greek descent.  She speaks both Greek and French fluently.   She was born into a family of actors. Her mother was an actress and her grandfather, Richard Davalos starred next to James Dean in East of Eden. She started out as a model, but shifted her career [...]

“Alice’s Attic” just won a new award for Best Animation at the Very Short Movies Film Festival. The stop-motion animated short was directed by Greek-American Robyn Yannoukos. The film is about a character who is forced to submit to change through suffering and pain. Yannoukos has described the short as “a socio-political commentary about the [...]

Greek mythology continues to inspire film making in Hollywood.  To name a few, Troy, Alexander, and of course Frank Miller’s, 300 . Miller is currently developing the sequel, Xerxes. The film will highlight the battle of Marathon that took takes place about ten years before the Battle of Thermopylae in 300.  The battle of Marathon [...]

The short films, by M.F.A. candidates are on display as part of the “Immediate Future” exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. The juried exhibition showcases recipients of the 2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, providing a focused glimpse at what is being produced by promising artists in Bay Area graduate [...]

Cinedigm, the global leader in digital cinema, in association with Ullman Family Film Productions, will release the Matthew Modine feature OPA! on Friday, October 16 in approximately 300 theaters nationwide. To kick off the campaign, Cinedigm will offer a simulcast screening of the film, coupled with a LIVE question-and-answer session with the cast, in 50 [...]