CURICULUM VITAE

EIRINI VACHLIOTI

DIRECTOR

Home/office: Ploutarchou 17, 106 75 Athens

Telephone: (+30) 210 72 45 317, (+30) 693 77 53 933

e-mail: irinivac @otenet.gr

Studies- Proffessional experience

Born in Athens.

Studied filmmaking in the University of Westminster in London.

Founded her own company IRIS FILMS, in which she worked as an editor for

seven years, in Soho, London, in collaboration with Richard Jobson and Warner

Brothers.

Her first film «Skipper Straad» won 14 awards. It was screened in central cinemas

in Athens and international television – including the German-French TV channel

ARTE.

For the last years she has been working as a documentary director for Greek and

international productions, including a 12 part series about charity help for the

children of Peru screened on ITV channel called “Amazon Heartbeat”, a feature

documentary about the journalists that were killed in the Iraq war called “Dying for

the Truth”, a BBC documentary about a philanthropic village in Bangladesh called

“Back Down to Earth”.

Her last documentary work as co-director “Written by Mrs Bach” was shown on

BBC and won several awards on international festivals and is now up for theatre

release.

She has recently completed a script for her first feature fiction film based on a book

of a famous Greek author.

Filmography

2015, «Written by Mrs Bach», a feature length documentary questioning the

authenticity of some of Johann Sebastian’s Bach music .

Co-production between WRITTEN BY MRS BACH, LΟΟΚS FILMS and

GLASGOW FILMS.

Co-director with the award winning director-producer Alex McCall.

DISTRIBUTION

BBC, ARTE

AWARDS

St Tropez International Festival, BEST DIRECTOR

Indie Fest Film Awards, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

New York Festival, GOLD MEDAL

2013, «Back Down To Earth», a feature length documentary about a philanthropic

village in Bangladesh.

Co-production of BBC and GLASGOW FILMS.

Filming in Bangladesh.

DISTRIBUTION

BBC

2010, «Dying for the Truth», a feature length documentary about the journalists

that were killed in the Iraq war.

Co-production between ODEON, National Greek Television and CL

Productions.

Directing on location – filming in Bagdad and other places

worldwide.

DISTRIBUTION

Screened on ODEON CINEMAS, television and worldwide

festivals.

2008, «Amazon Heartbeat» Ι&ΙΙ, twelve part series about charity help for the

children of Peru and the medical assistance given to the deserted villages of the

Amazon river.

Co-production between ITV CHANNEL and GLASGOW FILMS.

Directing, filming in Peru and the Amazon.

DISTRIBUTION

The series was shown in ITV1 in August 2007 with excellent critics.

It was choice of the week for many weeks in major TV magazines

and newspapers and had 17% of viewing rates, just next to the

famous soap opera the «East enders».

AWARDS

New York Festivals, FINALIST AWARD WINNER.

PRESS PUBLICATIONS-CRITICS

«Documentary maker with a heart. Lovely Irini Vachlioti is

proof that not all TV documentary makers are big-bearded

blokes in sandals.»

Daily Express, 2007.

2/5/2008, Interview on «BROADCAST» magazine.

Big press coverage in England and Greece.

2005, «A designer’s journey-Denny Vachlioti», a feature lenght documenatry

about the work and life of the costume designer Denny-Theoni Vachlioti.

Production of the National Greek Television.

Directing.

CRITICS

«… it reminded us of what the ideal television should be»

TO VIMA, 24 February 2005

2003, «Skipper Straad», fiction film, 38΄, 35mm BW film, inspired by the greek

poet Nikos Kavadias

Co production between THE GREEK FILM CENTER, CL PRODUCTIONS and

Eirini Vachlioti.

Script-Directing.

AWARDS

Won 14 prizes in 2004, including:

Award for Best Short Film by the Ministry of Culture in

Thessalonika Film Festival.

Award for Best Balkan Film.

Jameson’s award, given to the best twelve European short

films, which are then screened in all major festivals in Europe.

Special Prize for Best Film in the Mediterrenean Festival of

Tangiers in Maroco.

Award for Best Film in the Short Film Festival of Drama,

Greece.

The Award of the Greek Film Critics Association.

Awards for Best Photography, Costumes, Sets, Sound Design

DISTRIBUTION

Screened for four weeks in the two central cinemas of Athens,

IDEAL and DANAOS with excellent critics.

Shown many times on the Greek televison

Screened by the French-German TV chanel ARTE.

PUBLICATIONS-CRITICS

«Art cinema with a capital A. Its cinematic language

astonishes the viewer.... We rarely see such quality on Greek

cinema, even by mature filmmakers».

Νέα Εστία, έτος 770, τόμος 154ος

«Sometimes a short film can be a very big movie.»

Time Out Athens, 2004

1996, «A short film about Laughter», short film, 15΄, 16mm film.

Script-Directing

AWARDS

Award for Best Newcomer Director in the Short Film Festival of

Drama, 1997.