A LA CARTE

Taxiarchis Deligiannis, Vasilis Tsiouvaras

Greece

Taxiarchis Deligiannis, Vasilis Tsiouvaras - Director
Taxiarchis Deligiannis, Vasilis Tsiouvaras - Writer
Ioanna Soultani - Producer
Christos Stergioglou - Key Cast

The Minister of Health is invited to a life style radio show, in order to hide a scandal he’s involved in. On air, he and the journalist are walking on a tightrope, that gets even tighter by the listeners’ revealing reactions and the pressure by the pharmaceutical companies and the government.

Taxiarchis Deligiannis was born in Chalkida, Greece, and studied Marketing and Business Administration at the American College of Athens (DEREE). He speaks English and Italian fluently and loves theater, cinema and fine arts.
Vasilis Tsiouvaras was born in Larisa, Greece, studied Law in Thessaloniki and was awarded a Master’s Degree (LLM) in Intellectual Property Law. He is an attorney specialized in the field of copyright law. He speaks English and German fluently.
They are both members of ASIFA HELLAS, the Greek branch of the International Animated Film Society.
The last five years they have written together a screenplay for a feature film (under the working title “UPSIDE DOWN"), which was approved and financed by the Greek Film Center in the category “Debut Feature” and by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation and is currently in pre-production, and also the following screenplays for short films:
-”A LA CARTE”(2021, also directors)
-“To the seventh”(directed by Konstantina Papadopoulou, participation in the “Creative Ideas” Pitching Lab for their script “Seventh floor” during the 22nd Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People 2019, Official Selection at the International Short Film Competition, Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People 2020)
-”Absent” (directed by Andronikos Dimopoulos,participated in NESPRESSO TALENTS 2020 competition)
-"Ivan"(Link: https://vimeo.com/272274053,password:ivan_movie), directed by Panagiotis Kountouras (official selection: Leeds International Film Festival 2018, Bucharest International Film Festival 2018 (Jury Award of recognition), Oxford Film Festival 2019, Transylvania Shorts (Jury Award of recognition for Christos Stergioglou),20minmax International Short Film Festival 2019, Fincortex-International Short Film Festival 2019, Open Window International Film Festival (Best Innovative Concept), Gastro Film Fest (1st prize), Edmonton International Film Festival, and 4 more awards and participations in more than 100 film festivals all over the world)
- "Open Wings" (animation, participated as work in progress in the International Animation Film Festival of Annecy 2018 &2019)
- “One more hour of life”(award for best short film screenplay 2018 by the Scriptwriters Guild of Greece)
- "Sleep'' (directed by Iphigenia Kotsoni, in competition in ‘Athens Film Factory”, organized in 2017 by the Hellenic Film Academy and COSMOTE)
-”Scram” (directed by Manos Arvanitakis, semi-finalist in “Athens Film Lab”, organized in 2015 by OPENING NIGHTS -Athens International Film Festival)
They are about to co-direct with Stelios Korres the documentary ”Double A Side” .
They have also written and are about to direct the short film “NO WAY” (in pre-production).
Finally, they have written three stage plays entitled “Promise”, “e-saka” (nominated for the Award for Best Greek Play by the Ministry of Culture) and “THE B’s“ and a 6-episode TV series, under the working title “COMIC -A MOCK!”, selected for TORINO FILM LAB NEXT TV 2021