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.

Gramvousa with its castle has been the site of important historical events from the ancient times and the Venetian rule, to this day. The impressive and particularly beautiful Cape, with has had "a thousand songs" sung about it, a reference point for many composers, who praised its multiple aspects and the great conflicts that took place there.
Over the years, the people who have "inhabited" it, have combined their fascinating history with the wild and untamed form of the rocky islet.
A key reference point for Gramvousa is the famous music composer
Nik. Tzegas. The "fisherman of Gramvousa", who sang about it all his life, until,that the same night of the famous shipwreck of the "Heraklion" in Falconera, in 1966, he drowned in its waters... at the place he loved and lived all his life.
His wife, Maria, could not keep him on board the boat because of the terrible sea storm. Alone and helpless, she stayed all night out at sea, struggling to save him...
Most impressive of all is that as a lyricist, N. Tzegas, had "predicted" his own death in his songs:
- "When they lower Tzegas into Hades
and if it be daylight, pitch deep darkness..."
- "Gramvousa to dress in black once Tzegas dies,
for he was fishing for you, for he was feasting on you..."