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In June 2007, filmmakers Ersi Danou and Angeliki Giannakopoulos, and joined by documentary filmmaker Avra Georgiou, introduced the first Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) to a community that was ready and willing to connect with Greek creators from Greece, Cyprus and around the world. For the first time ever, Los Angeles was getting long-term Greek cultural representation with the establishment of an annual event; and, for the first time, Greek filmmakers would have the opportunity to repeatedly experience the center of American and global entertainment, meet local professionals, absorb diverse perspectives, develop their projects, and get to know transatlantic fellow creatives.
Red Carpet Opening Night Celebration at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood; reception provided by PETROS
Hollywood Scene and Be Seen Bash at The Godfrey Hotel Hollywood Rooftop
Theatrical Screenings/Live Q&A with filmmakers
Filmmaker Brunch hosted by Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles Hon. Christina Valassopoulou (exclusive) at Mi Alma Gardens
Red Carpet Closing Night Celebration and Orpheus Awards at the Egyptian Theater, Hollywood; reception provided by PETROS
“My dear friend and collaborator Dean Tavoularis has passed, a profound loss. I would be unable to list the many ways he benefited my work and my personal life. He was a great artist, a great friend, a great production designer and a great man.” Francis Ford Coppola
Join us on May 27th, 2026, on Opening Night of the 20th edition of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival; where we are honored to present a remembrance of one of our greatest and most respected artists in the seventh art, Dean Tavoularis.
The remembrance will precede the Opening Night film screening, and it is included in the Opening Night ticket price.
“Alexandre is in my opinion one of the best, if not the best composer alive. He is a guy who knows exactly why he is doing something and exactly how to achieve an emotion and exactly how to make the music eloquent.” — Guillermo del Toro
The cinematic scores of multi-award-winning Composer Alexandre Desplat are all deeply connected to the core of the story. From the balalaika in Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL to the bandoneon in Guillermo del Toro’s THE SHAPE OF WATER – both Oscar wins for the maestro – his music has always served as a delicate storytelling device that never overpowered the visuals.
Born in Paris to a Greek mother and a French father, Alexandre Desplat began playing instruments at an early age; developing an appreciation for film music via listening to the movie soundtrack albums his parents would bring back from the U.S. He studied at the Royal College of Music, at the Conservatoire de Paris, and also took a summer course under avant-garde Composer and Music Theorist, Iannis Xenakis.
Continuously working on films as a Composer since the mid-eighties, Directors such as Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Jonathan Glazer, Kathryn Bigelow, Matteo Garrone, Costa-Gavras, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Michel Hazanavicius, Jacques Audiard, Greta Gerwig and numerous others have relied on the brilliance of Alexandre Desplat’s evocative and stunning scores to bring another dimension to their pictures.
During the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers of Music discussion Alexandre Desplat stated, “It’s the beauty of the film I’m invited to be part of, that allows me to slide into it, the way an actor would. The composer is just a guest in this theatre. I use the tools I’ve stockpiled: musical tools, of course, but emotional tools too – fed by what I’ve read, museums I’ve visited…then share all that with the film…”
Join us on May 31, Closing Night of the 20th edition of Los Angeles Greek Film Festival; when we are honored to present our 2026 Tribute and Honorary Orpheus Award to an artist whose genre-bending work has inspired and influenced generations of storytellers, Composer Alexandre Desplat.
The 19th edition of the festival will be held across 6 days, from May 27 to June 1. The nonprofit organization brings filmmakers from Greece and Cyrpus, as well as films about Greece, to Southern California.
PACT.gr with the support of The Hellenic Initiative & Global Greek Film Initiative (GGFI) of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, is organizing a highly demanded Assistant Director workshop.
After a decade of programming in Los Angeles, Discovery Days had an inaugural run in Greece as an extension of the work done earlier in June.
Los Angeles Greek Film Festival is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.
