Comments on: Berlinale Invites Greek Director Vasilis Kekatos, Sparking Industry Outrage https://filmindustrywatch.org/berlinale-invites-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-outrage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=berlinale-invites-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-outrage Exposing the shell games of the film industry - we won't let them hide. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Fabrizio https://filmindustrywatch.org/berlinale-invites-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-outrage/#comment-156 Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:04:05 +0000 https://filmindustrywatch.org/?p=6787#comment-156 This industry is utterly pathetic. I’m Facebook friends with an “important” committee member from Venice, and every time he posts a photo, no matter what it is, it racks up 400 likes. It could be a picture of an apple, a bench, or an empty street, and the same crowd of sycophants will run to shower him with attention. I could write that I’m dying of cancer with only two weeks to live and I still wouldn’t get 5% the attention this guys gets. Why? Because people know that this is how the game is played. As I said, pathetic. What this post describes is wild, you’d think this guys award should be revoked and everyone involved shamed out of the industry. But it’s just business as usual. Then they wonder why films lose money and nobody is watching them. The disconnect is staggering.

]]> By: Film Industry Watch https://filmindustrywatch.org/berlinale-invites-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-outrage/#comment-154 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:48:53 +0000 https://filmindustrywatch.org/?p=6787#comment-154 In reply to ROBERT IOLINI.

You’re welcome Robert. Feel free to send us your contributions, our articles are all written by members of the film community.

]]> By: ROBERT IOLINI https://filmindustrywatch.org/berlinale-invites-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-outrage/#comment-152 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 01:42:22 +0000 https://filmindustrywatch.org/?p=6787#comment-152 Thanks for your diligent attention and persistent efforts to expose and share important knowledge around film industry corruption. These issues are particularly pertinent when it’s tax payers money that subsidises much of the European Film Industry.

]]> By: Berlinale Invites Disgraced Greek Director Vasilis Kekatos, Sparking Industry Outrage – De-normalizing nepotism in the film industry. – Kon/Spira[l] https://filmindustrywatch.org/berlinale-invites-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-outrage/#comment-149 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:22:36 +0000 https://filmindustrywatch.org/?p=6787#comment-149 […] In a move that stunned the Greek film industry, the Berlin Film Festival has invited disgraced director Vasilis Kekatos to premiere Our Wildest Days, his first feature, at the festival. This invitation follows the director’s failure to secure a slot at Cannes last year, despite his short Palme d’Or win, allegedly due to the controversy — Weiterlesen filmindustrywatch.org/berlinale-invites-disgraced-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-o… […]

]]> By: Veem Wanker https://filmindustrywatch.org/berlinale-invites-greek-director-vasilis-kekatos-sparking-industry-outrage/#comment-148 Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:32:23 +0000 https://filmindustrywatch.org/?p=6787#comment-148 It’s simple: you’re either in the mafia, or you’re not. If you don’t grovel, don’t kiss the ring, we’ll blacklist you. But if you play the game, if you flatter us, we’ll support your project, screen your film, doesn’t matter if it’s trash or genius. Merit? We don’t care. Everything is politics, money, connections. If we didn’t abuse our power, what would be the point? Without it, we’d be nobodies, stuck in this dead-end job, sorting through thousands of films for 15 Euros per hour. But this? This is power. We turn it into currency, social capital. It gives us importance, makes us untouchable. And frankly, it’s less work. Why waste time watching films when we can just decide who matters and who doesn’t?

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