The inspiring work of Velvet Datsopoulou

Inside the world of Filmmaker Velvet Datsopoulou

Velvet bought her first film camera when she was 15 years old. This precursor event bespoke an incipient career in photography or film production. As it turned out, shortly after graduation from the esteemed London Metropolitan University, with a BA in Politics and International Relations, Velvet would land her first film production job with Anisma Films, which was responsible for the highly celebrated documentary “Great Directors” which Velvet was critically and indispensably involved in from its genesis to its completion.

 

She confesses to being influenced by monolithic film giants such as David Lynch, Bernardo Bertolucci and Francois Truffaut (for, as she puts it in the latter individual “a dose of practicality”)! Aside from her education in London, her training for film at Anisma Films, and later for Black Coral Productions, has been, admittedly, largely self-created. Being an insatiable movie fanatic also helped form a core and driven creative personality.

 

Her propensity for being a people-person allowed her great success as a campaign manager for up-and-coming political candidates, including participation and preparation of key speeches designed to heighten public awareness of whatever candidate she was assisting. This natural evolved to involvement in volunteer work, not only in the Athens City Marathon of 2013, but most notably, as a tennis complex technical coordinator for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Velvet understands that collaboration is key, along with teamwork, and had she been given the opportunity, she would have loved to have worked with film legend, James Dean. Perhaps in the near future, it will be one Velvet Ntatsopoulos that folks will desire to associate with in some legendary capacity!