Tony Asimakopoulos

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Tony Asimakopoulos
File:Tony Asimakopoulos.jpg
Born Antonis Asimakopoulos
Montreal, Canada
Nationality Canadian of Greek origin
Occupation Film director
Years active 1991–present

Tony Asimakopoulos is a Montreal-based Canadian film director, cinematographer and freelance editor of Greek origin. He often collaborates with the Montreal-based Canadian film production company EyeSteelFilm. He is best known for his autobiographical documentary Fortunate Son.

Career

He was born Antonios Asimakopoulos to Greek parents Aristomenis and Vassiliki Asimakopoulos, who had immigrated to Canada and resided in Montreal. The Greek-Canadian Asimakopoulos, their only son, studied at Montreal's Concordia University earning a degree in film production in 1993. His short film Jimmy Fingers was awarded the "Prix de le Rélève", for most promising Quebec filmmaker, at the 1991 Festival de jeune cinema in Montreal. This was followed by his short Mama's Boy, that screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and in Montreal, Locarno, Göteburg and Melbourne.

He moved to Ottawa in 1995 to enter treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism. Soon after, he was featured in the documentary Confessions of a Rabid Dog directed by a fellow recovering addict, John L'Ecuyer.

After developing and teaching a video apprenticeship program for youth-at-risk, he resumed his own work with Horsie's Retreat, a dramatic feature made at the Canadian Film Centre in 2004, and the Global Television docudrama series Canadian Case Files in 2005 and 2006.

His work as an editor includes the ground-breaking 2009 EyeSteelFilm documentary feature RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, and the 2011 autobiographical bilingual documentary film Fortunate Son being a candid look at his relations with his own family.[1][2][3]

Asimakopoulos has also produced several comedy videos for the CBC Radio One program WireTap.[4]

Filmography

Director
  • 1991: Jimmy Fingers (short)
  • 1992: Mama's Boy (short)
  • 2005: Canadian Case Files (TV series)
  • 2005: Horsie's Retreat
  • 2011: Fortunate Son (documentary)
Cinematographer
  • 2011: Fortunate Son (documentary)
Screenwriter
  • 2005: Horsie's Retreat
Editor
  • 1999: No One Believes the Professor (documentary short)
  • 1999: Voices of Dissent: A Dance of Passion (short)
  • 2005: Canadian Case Files (TV series)
  • 2005: Horsie's Retreat
  • 2006: Mercy Seed (short)
  • 2007: Imitation
  • 2007: Family Motel
  • 2009: RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (documentary)
  • 2011: Fortunate Son (documentary)

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