Mr. Aaron is a leading Hollywood film professional who runs his own production company, Suntaur Entertainment, and for the past 20 years has owned a management company, Elsboy Entertainment, which primarily represents writers.

Some of Mr. Aaron’s credits include the following: Writer/Director of the feature film “Maxie” starring Glen Close; writer/producer of the feature film ‘In Too Deep” for Miramax Films, “A Different Story,” and “A Force of One.”

He has written screenplays for Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Films and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

In addition to feature films, Mr. Aaron has developed original dramas for HBO, CBS, NBC and other television and cable networks. In association with Robert Redford’s company Wildwood Enterprises, Mr. Aaron developed and served as the Executive Producer with Robert Redford on a the three-hour dramatic mini-series, “Grand Avenue,” for HBO. Mr. Aaron co-created and executive produced a three-hour mini-series for HBO, entitled “Laurel Avenue.” For television: Director of “The Miracle Worker,” “In Love and War,” “When She Says No,” “Thin Ice,” and “Maid in America".

Mr. Aaron, in cooperation with the Academy of Cinema, taught a one-week master screenwriting workshop in Athens, at the Karamanos Studio. In addition, Mr. Aaron gave a series of lectures in Athens entitled "The Language of Hollywood." Mr. Aaron also teaches a course for the University of Miami which is held in Los Angeles each summer. Mr. Aaron graduated from Bennington College and holds an honorary doctorate in cinema.
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Mr. Carey is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His latest documentary, School Board Blues premiered at the 2004 Woodstock Film Festival, and is now being distributed nationally. Some of his documentaries include, Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System, Indian Point-Nowhere to Run, Woodstock Summer of '94, and Cancer:Just a Word...Not a Sentence. He has a Masters Degree in Film from Boston University.
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Before forming The Academy of Cinema, Mr. Cohen was a Hollywood film producer. Among many films which Mr. Cohen developed and produced under his public company banner, Co*Star Entertainment, Inc., were “Last Flight Out” starring James Earl Jones, for NBC Television Productions, filmed in Thailand.

The film received the International Golden Eagle Award. “Blind Judgment” starring Peter Coyote and Leslie Ann Warren for CBS Television. In addition, Mr. Cohen has also produced feature films, some of which include, “The Gig,” and “The Luckiest Man.” Both of these films were written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner, Frank D. Gilroy.
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Ph.D Candidate ,University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in English Literature;
Master of Fine Arts, New York University, Tish School of the Arts, Graduate Film Department, B.A. University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School of Communications. Director/Screenwriter “Shores of Twilight,” Feature film; “Trinity” Short Fiction Film;
“Relics; Short Fiction Film, all three films won awards in various film festivals in America and Europe. Mr. Hatzis, has also directed four documentaries. Mr. Hatzis teaches film directing, screenwriting and cinematography in three colleges in Greece;
New York College, Akmi, and the National Greek Film School, Aristotelio University.
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Mr. Iakovidis is the leading production manager in Greece, having served on numerous foreign productions.

He arranges for AOC students to observe and participate on Greek and foreign productions while attending the Academy. He is also a consultant to the Karamanos Studio.
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NELLIE KARRA is a Greek-American actress, director, and choreographer. Her career began with Paul Baker at the Dallas Theatre Center in Texas, followed by years in New York, where she was choral director for “Iphegenia at Aulis” for the Roundhouse Theatre and Cubiculo Theatre, and for “The Trojan Women” at Skidmore College. She taught theatre at the Ethical-Culture School in Riverdale. Nellie returned to her family roots in Greece in 1976.

Since then she and has been a central figure in theatre in Greece. She taught at the drama schools of Pelos Katselis, L. Trivisas, Morphes Theatre Company, National Theatre, and the University at Athens before founding her own theatre company “Organismos Theatrikis Kinisis” in Athens in 1982. It was the first experimental theatre workshop in Athens.

As director, Nellie has done choral direction for the National Theatre of Greece, as well as other theatre companies in Greek tragedy, at Herod Atticus (Athens), Eleusina, Delphi, and Epidaurus-- the largest festivals of ancient theatre in the world. Her work includes “Prometheus Bound” (Aeschylus), “Orestes” (Euripides), and a multimedia performance by T. Suzuki. She did the stage movement and choreography for Buddha” (Katzanzakis),the rock opera “Sakura” and was assistant choreography for the ballet, “The Trojan Women” by Rallou Manou. She has also directed a number of modern plays in avant-garde Athens’ theaters in Greek and in English.

Her translations from Greek to English include Stratis Karras’ “The Vaudevillians” and Dimitri Kehaides “With Power from Shorditch.”
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Ms. McGrath, is a guest lecturer at New York University teaching acting for the past decade. Her recent feature film, “Au Pair Chocolat,” which she produced has won the Best of Festival at several film festivals, including the Black International Cinema, Berlin Germany, Pan African Film Festival and African Diaspora Film Festival. It has appeared in over 17 festivals both in North America and Europe.

As a casting director in New York City, she has been involved with numerous feature films and worked with such talents as Brad Pitt, F. Murray Abraham, Andy Warhol, Frank Gilroy and many others. She is the Founder of the Helene Johnson & Dorothy West Foundation for Artists in Need, a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to identifying and encouraging artists.
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In 2004, Mr. Moonjean’s book was published, entitled, "Bring In The Peacocks – Memoirs of a Hollywood Producer”. He was the producer of “Dangerous Liaisons,” directed by Stephen Frears, which was nominated for an Oscar as best picture of 1989. In addition, he has produced three films starring Burt Reynolds, all directed by Hal Needham; "Hooper,” “Smokey and The Bandit II,” and “Stroker Ace.” He also produced "Paternity," directed by David Steinberg, "Sharkey's Machine," directed by Burt Reynolds, "The Incredible Shrinking Woman," directed by Joel Schumacher, and "Beauty and the Beast," directed by Fielder Cook. He was the Executive Producer for “The End,” directed by Burt Reynolds and “The Fortune,” directed by Mike Nichols.

Mr. Moonjean graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in cinema. He is a visiting professor in film at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, teaching film courses.
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Mr. Carey holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film. While a student, for two semesters he studied painting and film in Havana, Cuba, where he was mentored by a well-recognized Cuban artist and a feature-film editor. In his senior year he traveled across the United States driving a vegetable-oil fueled Mercedes while co-producing and directing the documentary, "Greasy Rider", which features interviews with Morgan Freeman, Yoko Ono and Noam Chomsky.
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Ph.D Harvard University (Dissertation To Be Completed 2007; M.A University of Washington;
B.A. Arizona State University in both English Literature & Religious Studies.
Presently teaching history & archeology at The Arcadia Centre in Athens, Greece.
Areas of teaching experience: Ancient Greek History; Great Books of Western Civilization; Introduction to World Religions; Byzantine History of Art.
Teaching experience: Harvard University, University of Berkeley, St. John’s University Study Abroad in Greece, Lake Forest College Study Abroad in Greece.
Languages: English, Greek (Classical, Biblical, Byzantine, Modern) French, German.
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