Washingtonia starts when the giraffes heart can no longer be heard.
Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because it’s heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.

Direction: Konstantina Kotzamani

Script: Konstantina Kotzamani

Production: Artemis Pattakou, Artemis Pattakou

Cinematography: Giorgos Karvelas, Giannis Kanakis

Editing: Leonidas Papafotiou

Production Design: Nefeli Livieratou

Costume Design: Kika Karampela

Sound: Persefoni Miliou

Original Score: Panou Manouilidis, drog_a_tek drog_a_tek

Cast: Mamadou Diallo, Eytuchia Stefanidou

Original Title: WASHINGTONIA

Original Languages: French, Greek

Subtitles: English, French, Greek, Spanish

Film Production Country: Greece

Website: www.washingtoniafilm.com

Biography of the Director/s
Konstantina Kotzamani is a graduate student of Film Department of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki. Her short movies have participated in several International Festivals and have gain several awards. Her short film ARUNDEL has been financed by the Greek National and also with the script of the same film has participated in Euro Connection Program at Clermont Ferran Film Festival.

In 2012 she was a participant in Berlinale Talent Campus and Sarajevo Talent Campus as well. Her short film Morning Prayers co-directed with Katarina Stankovic, financed by Sarajevo City of Film program, was premiered in Sarajevo Film Festival 2013.

Her last film Washingtonia premiered in Berlinale 2014 in Berlinale Shorts Competition program and was nominated for the Golden Bear. Washingtonia was awarded by the Greek Film Academy as the best Short Film 2014 and also Awarded by the European Film Academy with the EFA award in Gent International Film Festival.

Konstantina Kotzamani was chosen to take part and present her work in Future Frames at the 50th Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2015.

Her last short film Yellow Fieber will premiere in Locarno Film Festival 2015 in international competition Pardi di Domani

Awards Won
Gent International Film Festival- EFA AWARD
Greek Film Academy Award- Best Short 2014
Chicago International Film Festival,(Special Mention)
Curtocircuito International Film Festival (Grand Prix, Best Short Film )
International Short Film Festival ŻUBROFFKA (Grand Prix & Best Cinematography Award

World Sales:
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Artemis Pattakou
Stournari 4
Athenes, 10683, Greece
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +306979048116

Press:
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Artemis Pattakou
Stournari 4
Athenes, 10683, Greece
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +306979048116