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Special Guest: George Georgiou

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Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce brilliant actor George Georgiou as one of our esteemed Special Guests for CCC16!

Born in London of Greek-Cypriot parents, George received his actor’s training at the prestigious Drama Centre London alongside Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender.

George has appeared in some of the best quality shows to grace our screens over the last few years, both in the UK and the US.  More specifically, he was recently seen on Season 6 of the massively popular TV series ‘Game of Thrones‘ (2011– ) – reprising his role of Razdal Mo Eraz from Season 3 (a high-born leader of the Yunki slave tribe). George has also been acting in the most current Season (5) of political thriller series ‘Homeland‘ (2011– ) where he plays the recurring character of Al Amin.

In 2015, he appeared in hit US TV shows ‘The Americans‘ and ‘Bones‘ for Fox as well as playing a lead in NBC’s ‘AD: The Bible Continues‘.

Make sure to visit George Georgiou’s official website for more information about his illustrious career in film and television.

Other worthy TV credits include a regular in the award winning ‘The Honourable Woman‘ opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal playing the Palastinian Ambassador.

George also played one of the lead characters in a TV pilot called ‘Bubbles‘ set amongst the Greek Cypriot community in London – also starring Marina Sertis (Star Trek) and Peter Polycarpou (Birds of a Feather).

On the big screen George has starred alongside Meryl Streep in ‘Mamma Mia!‘ (2008) playing Panos, her housekeeper and then went on to appear in action movies such as ‘300:Rise of an Empire‘ (2014) and ‘RED 2‘ (2013).

Most recently, George starred in the award-winning ‘Killing Jesus‘ (2015) for Scott Free Productions as well as ‘God the Father‘ (2014). He can also be seen in Fatih Akin’s latest film that premiered at Venice Film Festival (main category) in 2014, called ‘The Cut‘ (2014) that is set in pre-WW1 about the Armenian Genocide. George takes on the role of Vahan, an Armenian that gets taken to a concentration camp which he does not survive.

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George recently played Greek Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras for a BBC Radio 4 play titled ‘A Greek Drama‘ (2015) about what went on behind the scenes in the lead up to Greece’s decision to stay in Europe. He also voiced a character in the highly acclaimed video game ‘Tom Clancy’s The Division‘ (2016).

George has worked on the stage both on and off West End since leaving Drama School.

Some stage productions he participated in include:

The Bacchae – The Royal National Theatre
Chicken – West End – Trafalgan Studio
Our Counties Good – West End – Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Battle of Green Lanes – Theatre Royal
and many others.

As well as acting,George set up the ArtHouse Crouch End Cinema – that won the Time Out Award for best cinema in London for the past 2 years running.

 

Featured Sponsor: Synergia Media

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Cyprus Comic Con is pleased to announce S. Synergia Media as one of our sponsor’s for this year’s event!

Company Profile

S. Synergia Media Ltd was created by the merging of two of the biggest companies in the area of professional sound, visual, professional lighting, conference and interpretation systems, organizing and producing conferences, congresses and events. The team of S. Synergia Media has been in the field of providing such services for more than 18 years.

S. Synergia Media Ltd is now a leading force among rental companies that deals with visual, professional sound, professional lighting, conference and interpretation systems in the Cyprus market. Each event, from the simplest to the most complicated one, is classified as important. Therefore, each customer’s need is carefully examined in detail and with the appropriate respect. The company’s main aim remains to present the most professional and productive result.

Vision
Their vision lies on the expansion of the company and the ongoing update of our services, by keeping up with any new technology in sound, vision and light equipment, conference & interpretation systems and design and construction tools. Furthermore, their high skilled personnel constantly attends seminars within or outside the company so as to be trained in new technologies, products and customer relations.

At the same time, S. Synergia Media Ltd continuously explores new ways of providing its services in the most efficient way, as well as new area fields so as to offer the most completed packages of services possible.

Mission
S. Synergia Media Ltd aims to offer a complete package of equipment and services to the customers, so as to help them in the most convenient and still professional way. They guide their customers all the way through, consulting them and helping them so as to achieve the most desired results.

Their services are provided by experienced and well trained personnel, using the newest and most advanced technology as well as the most reliable and compatible equipment. The company’s primary concern is the fulfilment of the customers’ needs, to keep all customers satisfied by providing our services in the best possible way with competitive prices.

Company Website
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Featured Participant: Write CY

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Write CY is a Nicosia-based community creative space dedicated to bringing the creative writing experience to the public. They offer intimate writing classes and workshops led by professionals in Greek and English for all ages, interests and abilities, and collaborate on community creative writing projects in Cyprus and abroad.

‘The Comic Book Project’

‘The Comic Book Project’ has taken 5 talented scriptwriters from Write CY’s first comic book writing course and put them in touch with a team of insanely talented local artists to produce 5 original comic books in time for Cyprus Comic Con 2016. Why? Because they thought it would be very very very cool!

Learn more about the project at ‘The Comic Book Project‘. If you’re a writer or artist and you’d like to learn how to make a comic book at Cyprus Comic Con, keep reading to find out more about ‘The 48-Hour Comic Book‘.

Press Release

The 100% community-sourced ‘Comic Book Project’ has brought local writers and artists together to produce five original comic books for Cyprus Comic Con 2016. The project—a first on the island—was the brainchild of comic book writer Antonis Bargilly and writer Max Sheridan, and came out of their 8-week comic book script writing course at Write CY, a community creative writing space in Old Nicosia.

Once they had the scripts, the next step for Bargilly and Sheridan was to find 5 local artists to bring them to life with their artwork. The open call for collaboration surpassed all expectations and the Comic Book Project now boasted illustrators, letterers, cover artists and even an architect.

Bargilly and Sheridan will be launching their comic books at Comic Con 2016 and organising a two-day event for aspiring comic book writers and artists called the ‘48-Hour Comic Book‘, which will give the public the opportunity to learn the basics of comic book script-writing and illustrating and to actually produce a comic book in just two days. The event will be open to the public but space is limited.

For more information about the ‘Comic Book Project’ and how to apply for the ’48-Hour Comic Book’, visit this page.

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The ’48-Hour Comic Book’

Aspiring comic book writers and artists have the unique opportunity to learn the fundamentals of comic book script-writing and illustrating with professionals and produce an original 12-page comic book at Cyprus Comic Con 2016.

The program includes:

—introductory meeting before Cyprus Comic Con
—comic book scriptwriting and illustrating workshops at Comic Con led by professionals
—5-hour scrip-writing and illustrating sessions, guided by scriptwriters and artists from The Comic Book Project

 

 

Registration is free with entrance to Comic Con, but space is limited. Please don’t forget to provide a link to your work. The final date for submitting your application is Friday August 26, 2016.

About the Creators

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Max grew up reading comic books and watching a lot of horror movies but ended up becoming a short story writer. His short fiction has appeared in a number of publications in the US, UK and elsewhere. He’s the director of Write CY, a creative space in Old Nicosia dedicated to creative writing and community storytelling, and co-director of Storyline Creatives, where he helps other people tell their stories.

For more info visit his personal website.

If you have a creative project you would like to discuss, drop him a line at info@writecy.com.

 

 

Antonis+250x250Antonis Bargilly

Antonis has been storytelling since childhood. Even as he became a professional musician and composer, he continued to tell stories (albeit a lot of them would be told with sounds rather than words), and use different means to craft them. Along with his friend, Antonis Aristodemou, he opened Ant Comics, the first comics shop in Cyprus, almost a decade ago.

It was during this period that he founded the Cyprus Comic Society, a 2-year project that brought local writers and comics artists together. He studied education and has over 20 years of experience teaching in different disciplines and to all ages and group sizes. At Write CY, he is bringing everything together – comics, teaching and storytelling – in his unique Comics Writing class. (Well, everything minus the music, obviously!)

Artist Profile: Kritonia Eleftheriou

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Kritonia Eleftheriou is returning to Cyprus Comic Con as one of our Featured Artists!

Kritonia is 17 years old and she is still a student. She has always been fond of the world of comics and it has been her main motive to practice and improve on her art skills in order to one day become a professional comics artist. Her first drawing projects consisted mainly of anime character fan art, while later on she started studying anatomy and developing more of a personal style.

Visit Kritonia’s page on Facebook for more of her creations.

At first she started experimenting with traditional art (pencil and ink on paper) and then she got more into digital art. Kritonia always looks for inspiration by researching other artists’ work, brainstorming ideas and writing notes. Her art teacher played an important role in her life and taught her many things that have helped shape her as an artist to this day.

Kritonia recalls her previous participation in Cyprus Comic Con as one of the “best experiences in her life”, for allowing her to meet other like-minded artists, learn different styles and techniques and more. She says she is always looking forward to the Comic Con every year and is very thankful to be able to participate once again!

 

The Gaming Tournaments at CCC16!

17/08/2016 by

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A number of exciting gaming tournaments will take place at this year’s Cyprus Comic Con! Keep reading to find out more details if you are interested in participating or even just spectating any of the following games!

The gaming tournaments will take place in Elia and Elia VIP rooms at Filoxenia Conference Centre. More information regarding the full tournament schedule will be announced in the following days.

More specifically, there will be tournaments for Hearthstone, CS Go, League of Legends, League of Legends 1v1, Super Smash Bros, Tekken, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat X, FIFA and PES!

The gaming tournaments will be running for the whole duration of the convention weekend. To contact the individual organisers and to find out more information regarding each tournament, visit the following links. Please note that the games below marked with an asterisk (*) are tournaments where the competing teams and players have already been decided for and you will not be able apply to compete in.