November 7-11, 2012 at the University of Oklahoma

This seminar will give students a unique opportunity to meet and discuss film-making with an
award-winning filmmaker.  Olga Malea is an award-winning Greek filmmaker, as well as the director of a number of Greek television series, and a documentary filmmaker. The focus of the seminar will be her five feature films.  The class will meet in the mornings for discussion of some of the social and political issues that have provided Malea with her inspiration, and in the afternoons to watch and discuss the films. Students will have a rare opportunity to learn and talk about cinema outside of the Hollywood tradition and to gain a better appreciation for the creative process of writing and directing films by discussing with the filmmaker herself.  Finally Malea will offer her own perspective about how to achieve success in a male- and corporate-dominated medium.  All students are welcome to apply since the focus covers everything from film studies, international and area studies, women’s studies,to political science and more.

Click here for draft syllabus

Readings (provided by OSLEP)

• A History of Greek Cinema by Vrasidas Karalis

• Reading Packet

Olga Malea is screenwriter and director with a law degree from the University of Athens and a PhD in Psychology from Yale University, where she also studied screenwriting and filmmaking. From 2008-2011 she worked in television, directing three TV series (20 episodes each), both hitting above 20% of the audience share.  She has made six popular feature films and several documentaries and short films and has frequently been chosen by Variety media newspaper as one of the Top Ten European Directors to Watch. Her film include The Cow’s Orgasm (1997) The Mating Game (1999), Risotto (2000),  Honey & The Pig (2005), Little Greek Godfather (2007) and The Chess Game (2012). To visit her website, click here