Biography

Director and Screenwriter, Film, Television, Theatre and other theatre, Playwright, Librettist, Lyricist, Lyricist, Audiovisual Theorist, Film and Music Producer, Editor and sometimes Actor or... Singer, occasional journalist, editor, television presenter and teacher of directing, with four International Awards and more than 40 National Awards, member of the Academy of European Cinema and the Alliance Mondiale du Cinema, representative of the E.E.S. at FERA, Costas Ferris is, if nothing else, Europe's most versatile Renaissance artist-creator.

From the book "Kostas Ferris" by the Society of Greek Directors

DISTINCTIONS AND PARTICIPATIONS
* Silver Bear Berlin Festival, "Rebetiko", 1984
* Special Committee Prize, Valencia Festival, "Rebetiko", 1984
* Grand Prize of the Alexandria Festival, "Rebetiko", 1985
* Life-time achievement Award, Smyrna Festival 2009
* Most Popular Greek Film, "Rebetiko", IMDB 2000
* 35 Awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival (for 5 of his films)
* 40 Awards and Distinctions in Greece and abroad.
* Many participations in foreign and Greek Film Organizations

MYTHMAKING FILMS: Your eyeglasses are shining, 1961, short film, A Delican, 1962 (in the titles he is referred to as "technical advisor for directing"), Some prefer khaki, 1965, The Slayer, 1974, Prometheus in second person, 1975, Two moons in August, 1978, Rebecca, 1983, Oh! Babylon, 1988

TV SHORIAL: The Merchants of Nations, The Menexenian State, Helen of the Donkeys. Love and Revolution, The Crime of Psychiko, The Zardis Family, Escape, Katie Gray: My Life Witch (Like a Fairy Tale), etc.

MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL SERIES, DOCUMENTS, etc.: The Assembly of Animals, Common Acceptance, Come to Light, Tonight at Thomas's, Dream Hellas, Macaron Earth Thessaloniki, Paraskinio, Macedonia, Folk Instrumentalists, Xenaki Polytopon, Tsitsanis, Crucifixion-Resurrection, Klaketa, The Screen of Rock, Cinema and Music, The Civil War Within Us, History of Rebetika Singing, etc.

THEATRE SCENES: Erotic Vitamins, L' Opera des Oiseaux, Rebetiko Mystery, Fire, Oniru Hellas, Don't step on my feet Pangalos etc.

THEATRICAL WORKS AND LIBRETTOS: L' Opera des Oiseaux, music by Antoine Duhamel, Opera de Lyon * Rebecca Mystery, music by Thesia Panagiotou, Smaroula Theatre, Athens, 1981 / Rhodes Municipal Theatre, 2000 / Haifa Municipal Theatre, 2002 / Ankara State Theatre, 2007 / Odeon of Herodes Atticus 1916 * Don't step on me, Pangalos, revue * 666 The Apocalypse, music by Vangelis Papathanasiou with Aphrodite's Child, Paris 1970 * Akritas, music by Logaridis-Tassoulis, Athens 1974

SCREENING: Le Sang, with Serge Ouaknine and the director, film by Jean-Daniel Pollet. 1972 *
Exiled on Central Avenue, film by Nikos Zervos. 1979 * "Like a fairy tale" (My life a witch), TV series by K. Ferris, 1996 etc.

BOOKS: Rebetiko fiction, The Alchemy of Cinema General Theory of Cinema