Series of hourly broadcasts produced in 2024

"GREEK ACTS" travels, records, and presents the timeless cultural expressions of people and places. The journey, the music, the myth, the dance, the world. This is the destination of the show. The protagonist is the human, accompanied by mythical ancestors, in the local cultural events. It's where human adventure is distinctively traced in its authentic expression, across time. The show travels, explores, and reveals an enthralling human geography. The mosaic of the present creative and timeless cultural evolution of our country is showcased, with a selection of people-protagonists, events, and places, thus highlighting and complementing a living anthology. With music, stories, and images... With a revealing and sensitive gaze, with in-depth research rather than surface-level exploration, "GREEK ACTS" focuses on "unique" moments of human expression.
With a screenplay structured cinematically, each story, where the show focuses its lens, unfolds fully without "intermediaries", by the protagonists themselves, creating a documentary that "composes" the present with the past, the myth with history, where everyday people are the protagonists. Myths, history, time, people, and places harmoniously compose a complete set of creative expression. The direct and authentic documentation, by the genuine "bearer" and "expresser" of each story - rather than someone "interfering" - is the primary, inviolable rule guiding the research and realization.
Behind each documentary, there is extensive preparation. And the image eventually appearing on the small screen - the result of the efforts of the show's collaborators - constitutes a wholly original production, from the first to the last frame. In this year's journey from Crete to Evros and from the Ionian to the Aegean Sea, the show presents a feast of ethnographic, anthropological, and musical expression. Authentic creations of people and places.
The human, life, and its voice firsthand, the sounds, the images, the customs, and behaviors, the journey of rhythms, the history of dance "written step by step", the celebratory events, and every human endeavor, filmed in their natural and social context of action, at the moment of their authentic execution - and not through a fake representation - determine, create the form, style, and characterize the show.

The island of Kalymnos is known for only one of its multiple facets. That of the "sponge", which almost exclusively monopolizes the characteristic local idioms that derive from the "expressions" of its people. The great sponge history of Kalymnos "prevented" the other side of the island, the land side, from becoming known, where human activity preceded the sea side, founding and creating its own map of local experiences. The battle of human toil between land and sea was exhausting, since the difficulties of life, either in the wild mountains of the island or in the vast depths of the sea, were difficult and merciless... For the inhabitants of Kalymnos, the choice between these two possible career paths, the land or the sea, was an agonizing one. The lens of the show investigates exactly this two-dimensional aspect of the island, in order to show how these two social manifestations "co-operate" and produce the excellent results in their songs, in their "stylistics" and in their stories. Because behind the well-known lyrical and singing creations of the Kalymnians about the sea spongers and their "passions", are the same people who marched to the mountains, where they first sang the "pastoral" songs and the "stubborn"... This is a "battle"! "Stubborn" exchange of "fires" with "rhymes" that aim at the heart, commenting mockingly on the life and passions of Kalymnians! The "Stubborn" in the "shepherds’’" poetic lyricism, is one of the main "literary" achievements of the folk people which are created primarily and originally to be told and sung, completing the multi-faceted, highly aesthetic poetic substance of Kalymnos. The show investigates, collects and documents the lyrical idioms that it encountered, experienced and dramatically integrated in the life activities of its people on the island of Kalymnos.