Tasos Boulmetis

Tasos Boulmetis Greek Τάσος Μπουλμέτης Istanbul 1957 is a Greek director He has directed the films Politiki Kuzina Notias and 1968 Politiki Kuzina is the film that has made the most tickets in Greece He was born in 1957 in Istanbul but in 1964 with the expulsions of Greek citizens of Istanbul he settled in Greece He initially studied physics at the University of Athens and then with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation he studied film and television production at the University of California at Los Angeles He returned to Greece and began directing television shows and commercials He also worked with digital special effects In 1990 he made his directorial debut with the film Dream Factory which was shot on Beta sp video and converted to 35 mm film a pioneering technique for its time DREAM FACTORY won eight state awards and the Fantasy Award at the Houston Film Festival in 1990 In 2003 he directed his next film Political Cuisine2 of which he was the screenwriter and coproducer The film was a great commercial success in Greece with approximately 1500000 tickets sold which is the most ever for a film in the country The film won the Best Film award at the State Film Quality Awards and at the same awards Tasos Boulmetis won the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards His next film was the autobiographical film Notias which was released in 2016 In 2018 a dramatized documentary about AEKs victory over Slavia Prague in the 1968 European Basketball Cup final was released titled 1968 He was an assistant professor at the University of California Berkeley for a period and has taught directing at IEK Akmi In 2009 he was elected the first president of the Hellenic Film Academy