On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 18:30, Speech by Maria Sambatakaki, Panagiotis Rappa, and Kostas Spyropoulou at MSc. "Digital Culture, Smart Cities, IoT and Advanced Digital Technologies" of the University of Piraeus
On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, from 18:30 - 21:00, the guests of the MSc "Digital Culture, Smart Cities, IoT and Advanced Digital Technologies", of the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus, are Maria Sambatakaki, Panagiotis Rappas and Kostas Spyropoulos.
The speech by M. Sambatakakis, P. Rappa and K. Spyropoulos will be held for the students of the PMS via the internet, and in the context of the course "Advanced Media and Applications in Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Culture" of the "Digital Culture" direction.
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Panagiotis Rappas is an internationally renowned animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, director and producer of mainly Animation films. He has worked for almost all major Hollywood production studios as well as for many European 2D and 3D Animation co-productions. The main body of his work concerns children and especially the adaptation of children's literature into animated films. His work has won many international awards in Europe and the USA. Having a lot of experience in organizing the production of Animation films, he often takes on the role of a special consultant for corresponding productions, while from time to time he teaches through intensive seminars the art of Animation in Schools of Fine Arts and Colleges. He has also worked for the theater, one of his great interests next to painting, and has illustrated children's books. He is a Life Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.).
A few more words about his work...
P. Rappas after completing secondary education in Hydra continues his studies in Germany studying printmaking with Felix Jomü and Animation with Wolfgang Urchs, one of the filmmakers who signed the Oberhausener Manifesto (Oberhausener Manifesto 1962) and Hal Clay former associate of Disney Studios in California.
He would participate in two feature films for the cinema in Berlin and Munich before, in the late 80s, he was invited to be one of the first artists to man the studio that Spielberg's Amblin and Universal were jointly preparing in London and whose evolution will be today's DreamWorks. He participates in all the films prepared by the studio. In the middle of the 90s, he founded the Stardust Pictures studio in London and as a creative producer of the studio he would undertake the execution of parts of the production of many films for major Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros., Paramount, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks as well as European ones such as Trick Company and Munich Animation. In a dual role of Producer and Layout Artist/Animator he will oversee the production of part of the film “1001 Nights” for the Los Angeles Philharmonic based on Yoshitaka Amano's painting directed by Mike Smith.
In 1998 he moved to Los Angeles to participate in the Paramount, Nickelodeon and Klasky-Csupo productions “Rugrats the Movie” and “Rugrats in Paris” as Layout Supervisor and Sequence Director. Here, he co-founds the Time Lapse Pictures Production company based in Los Angeles and Athens.
In 2001 he returns to Greece where he continues to work for various Hollywood and European studios participating in their productions such as Paramount, Nickelodeon, Klasky-Csupo, Columbia, Filmax, Munich Animation. At the same time, he attends sculpture classes with teacher Nikos Tranos.
In Athens he will start collaborating with the Professor of Criminology at the University of Reading and well-known author of Children's Literature Evgenios Trivizas. A particularly fruitful and creative collaboration that will lead to the production of two Animation Christmas TV Specials in co-production with Hellenic Radio and Television (ERT). "The little mouse who wanted to touch a little star" / Panagiotis Rappas and Angelos Rouvas, 2007 and "Once upon a time" / Panagiotis Rappas 2009, which will be played at many international festivals around the world and will have a very warm reception from critics and public. The film "One Tree Once" will be voted as the best animation film for television by the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and the second best production for children and teenagers for 2009. The music of the film is signed by Dimitris Papadimitriou, one of the major contemporary Greek composers. Their collaboration will continue with the film "The Fountain of Youth" a film based on the short story by Lefkadio Hearn - Yakumo Koizumi and will premiere in 2011 at the Onassis Foundation's Arts and Letters Building, in an evening dedicated to the great Japanese author who was born in Greece from an Irish father and a Greek mother with readings of his work and an exhibition of his books from the collection of Takis Efstathiou. The film and the evening will become the occasion for the author to become known in the country where he was born.
In 2015, a collaboration with Ever After Tales, a Los Angeles-based company that creates e-books and applications for children based on children's literature with animations, also begins. He assumes the role of Art Director and Animator of the company's applications. The book "The stone cherry stalk and little Emily" based on a fairy tale by Evgenios Trivizas will win the important Kidscreen Award for the best e-book of the year in the USA.
Special Effects and Digital Cinema is also an important part of his creative output and being a very experienced Vfx Animator he has often taken charge of this very important area for 3D Animation and Live Action films.
Special Effects and Digital Cinema is also an important part of his creative output and being a very experienced Vfx Animator he has often taken charge of this very important area for 3D Animation and Live Action films.
During 2018-2019 he worked for the Cartoon Saloon studio (http://www.cartoonsaloon.ie/ ) where he worked on an Amazon Video Kids series, based on the New York Times best-selling children's book, which is called Pete the Cat. The music of the series was signed by Elvis Costello, the enfant terrible of the London rock scene in the 70s and 80s. Until today, he is a Partner of Stegi Tou Onassiou. Panagiotis Rappas also edited the animation for the 2021 Commission film "I know you by sight".
Maria Sambatakaki studied History at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and the University of Helsinki, and Literature at the University of Cambridge.
Her path in the field of historical research began at the Historical and Diplomatic Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).
Since 2004, she has been systematically dealing with Public History as an article writer and scientific collaborator in newspapers (Ethnos, Eleftherotypia), magazines (History, Historical Issues) and publishing houses.
In 2014, he created the "historistai" Group, an original structure that prepares programs for the utilization of primary historical research in the fields of culture, economy and education and is active in the production of audiovisual works, the upgrading of museum-historical spaces and archival collections, the provision of content in technological services offered (mobileapps, webtv, search engines) and in the (re)branding of locations in the context of cultural tourism development.
He has collaborated and taught at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic). He has undertaken the creation of the Archive of the Public Real Estate Company S.A. (ETAD). She is a scientific associate in Public History at the Hellenic-American Union.
Finally, Maria Sambatakaki was the Historical Advisor of the film "I know you from the Side" of the 2021 Commission.
Kostas Spyropoulos is a journalist. He studied at the Economics Department of EKPA and retrained in television at the Frank Maggit Institute, Iowa, USA.
Between 1989 and 1992 he was Deputy Director of News at MEGA CHANNEL, in 1992 - 1999 as General Director of News and Information at ANTENNA TV, in 1999 - 2001 as General Director at TEMPO TV, in 2001 - 2004 as CEO at Greek Business Channel , in 2004-2007 as General Director of Television at ERT, in 2007-2010 as General Director of Information and News at SKAI TV, in 2012 as General Director of ERT Television, in 2013-2014 as Presenter of the Weekly Show "Political Kitchen" on Action 24 , in 2015 - 2017 as Director of Information at MEGA Channel and in 2019-2020 as CEO at EURONEWS BALKANS.
In 2013 he founded the AegeanDocs International Documentary Festival (www.aegeandocs.gr), of which he is still the Director. Also, from 2015 until today he is the Director of the Arcadian Screenings International Cultural Festival (www.arcadianscreenings.gr).
Between 2016-2019 he was Project Manager of the international cultural action Home New Home (www.homenewhome.gr) in five countries (Greece Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine) with partners the Anna Lindh Foundation, the High Commission of the O. UN, the Goethe Institute and the donor Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Between 2011-2014 he was Project manager and Communications Officer at the international cultural initiative The Life of the Others, in six countries (Greece, Germany, Malta, Algeria, Morocco, Israel-Palestine).
From 2008 until today he is the Director of the Educational Institute STORYDOC, (www.storydoc.gr).
In 2004-2005 he was a Board Member of World History Producers and in 2006-2007 Board Member of the History Makers Association.
He has also worked as an editor, columnist and editor-in-chief in the newspapers Kathimerini, Eleftheros Typos, Eleftherotypia, Avgi, Proti, and in the magazines Thachydromos, ENA, Agora, TETARTO, ANTI.
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