KOSTIS ALEVIZOS
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Kostis Alevizos was born in Athens in 1988. He studied under a scholarship at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos. In 2017 his script for the short film Weight of the Sea was selected and funded by the «microfilm» programme of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. The film premiered at the Drama International Film Festival, where it received an Honorary Distinction for Photography and an Honorary Distinction for Best Female Actor. In addition, the film won an Honorary Distinction at the 9th Athens International Digital Film Festival, an Honorary Mention at the 13th Larissa International Film Festival for Sissy Toumasi’s acting and was nominated for the 2020 Hellenic Film Academy Awards. The film was selected by the Athens International Film Festival, the Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, the United Kingdom No Dialogue Film Festival, the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, the Athens Marathon International Film Festival, the Patras Steps Film Festival and the Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival. In 2019 his first book, entitled Gios (The Son), was published by Vivliopelagos press. In 2020 his script for the short film Τhe Tooth and The Rock was selected and funded by Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation as part of the programme microfilm. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).