“Great Ideas”
with Jim Gianopulos


Jim Gianopulos, Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, has visited Greece as part of the “Great Ideas” series and addressed public audiences in Thessaloniki and Athens on November 22nd, 23rd and 24th, respectively.

Since 2006, the “Great Ideas” series has supported educational and cultural connections between Greece and the United States. The series is organized by the Fulbright Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Greece, and is supported by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
On Monday November 23, at 19:00, Jim Gianopulos spoke at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), Banquet Hall, on the topic of Hellenism and Hollywood: from Aristotle to Alexander (Payne).

Present at the lecture was the US Ambassador in Greece, Daniel Speckhard and his wife Anne, the Prime Minister’s wife Ada Papandreou with their daughter Margarita, Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pavlos Geroulanos, the Member of Parliament, Anna Dalaras, the Director of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Despina Mouzaki and the President of the Festival George Corraface. Attending the event were well-known Greek directors Giannis Smaragdis, Tassos Boulmetis and Dennis Eliadis, as well as the actors, Constantinos Markoulakis, Alekos Syssovitis, and Mimi Denissi, the singer Glykeria and the director of ANT1-TV, George Levendis. Moreover,the board members of the association “Together with the Child” Marianna Latsis and Alexandra Martinou , the President of the Levendis Foundation, George David, the CEO of the HSBC group, Simon Gukes, Mr. & Mrs Panos Marinopoulos, as well as Zachos Hatzifortiou, Lambis Tagmatarxis, and other Greek and foreign VIP’s.

For more info regarding the Series you may visit: www.fulbright.gr, www.SNF.org, http://athens.usembassy.gov, http://thessaloniki.usconsulate.gov and www.mosaiko.gr

©2009 NEOCORP MEDIA

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