Acting
Volos, Thessaly, Greece
Lena Divani
Acting
Biography
Eleni (Lena) Divani (1955, Volos) is a Greek writer and former professor at the Law School of the University of Athens, where she teaches 20th century Greek and Balkan history of foreign policy at the undergraduate level and minority problems of the Balkans at the graduate level. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University, at King's College London, twice at the League of Nations Archives at the United Nations Library in Geneva and a fellow at the Greek Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She cooperated with the historical archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece in order to publish the diplomatic documents of Greece related to the national issues. She also collaborated with the National Book Center in preparing a bibliographic proposal on the problem of minorities and with the Foundation of Greek Culture on the subject of the Greek diaspora. She is a founding member of the National Commission for Human Rights. She was a member of the Board of Directors of ERT, vice-president of the National Book Center and the Organization for the Collective Management of Speech Projects.
Feature Films (2)
One night in Athens, during the filming of a scene for a commercial, the view of the Acropolis darkens. All hell breaks loose. Not only are the Acropolis lights out, but both the cast and crew are unable to gather due to a nearby brawl. Finally, the shoot is called off altogether, when three gunshots are heard.
Shooting
Lena is a 20 year old woman who lives in Athens, works at a local supermarket and lives with her family.What if keeping her baby is the only way to keep her job?
Life in a Beat
Television & Series (2)
From the very founding of the Greek state, territorial expansion was one of its main foreign policy goals. Watch how Greece claimed and incorporated the territories that now make up the body of the country.
The Greek Borders
Discover the lives of nine memorable couples, whose relationships were directly, indirectly or unexpectedly involved in Greek history. Along with their romances, the era that 'fueled' them revives, too.