The Greek “Mr Oscar”

His origin is from Ioannina. He has recently visited for the first time Thessalonici for the Film Festival, and he did not hide his satisfaction that he came in Greece, for which as he says knows very few things, although as he claims «lately I feel more Greek than ever.»

As the previous president and current member of the American Film Academy, the organization that determines where the Oscars go to, Sid Ganis has written his own story, which someone has the impression that it could be a film script of his great love.

The 69 years old producer made his first steps in Brooklyn’s neighbourhoods and he managed to get himself to the greatest Hollywood studios, to establish his own production company and to be elected president of the Academy for Oscars in 2005. The cinema was, as he says, the main reason why he now feels more connected to his Greek heritage. «I met Greek filmmakers and started getting involved more with the Greek community in Los Angeles,» he explains and adds: «Yes, even my Greek blood is more powerful now.» In an interview to the “Eleftherotypia” newspaper,

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