Olga Malea was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. After a Ph.D. in Psychology at Yale she went back Greece and became a film director. From 1997 till 2007, she wrote and directed six feature films. The first five were all comedies and big box office hits in Greece. VARIETY regularly included her in its shortlists about European cinema, as in Ten European Directors to Watch (2000), Europe Now: The Critics’ Choice (2001), Ten European Mavericks (2003), and several others. From 2008 till 2011, Malea worked in television directing two TV series, both hitting above 20% of the audience share. |