Efthimis Hatzis
Directing
Biography
Efthimis Hatzis grew up in New York and studied Visual Communication & Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. As a scholarship holder, he continued his studies at the Master's level in Directing at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). He was a student of Al Pacino, Sidney Lumet, Alan Alda, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese. For his thesis, he received a grant from Paramount Pictures. His short films have won many awards at international festivals. His first feature film, The Pink Shores, received international critical acclaim at festivals around the world. Efthimis Hatzis has created over 50 short fiction works for a program that includes high schools throughout Greece. He was the head writer for the series ΙΧΝΗ for the MEGA television channel. He directs television programs and commercials, and teaches directing at Aristotle University and New York College, where his students awarded him the prestigious Best Professor award in the Film Studies Department in 2006.
Known For
A young boy slowly drifts into illness. As sight + sound begin to dwindle, his love for life does not…
Rare Land
Deep into the soil, a living species is threatened with extinction by a mysterious disease. This Christmas, the three top scientists from Asia, Europe and Africa are called upon to implement a groundbreaking form of treatment: the waveform transformation of a human being. Which of the three will be transformed into a worm to save the entire planet?
Christmas Anti-fable
An adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's short story. Passion for a woman and some desperate thoughts push a young man to secretly take a stranger's boat and set sail. The wind carries him away and he is shipwrecked. He comes to in a cave, near the deserted shores, among three eccentric people who, each for their own reasons, live on the margins of society. He listens to them recount their personal stories with humour and self-deprecation. But behind their seemingly ill-fated romances, he discerns true love.
Shores of Twilight
Markos, Dimitris, Haris, Daphne and Anna are part of a select group of Forensic Science detectives who investigate cases and solve mysteries. Together, they prove that even the most careful criminal leaves behind... Traces.