Virginia Axioti

Athens painter turns blockbusters into motion picture art

Greek artist Virginia Axioti's work is seen by thousands of people every week, but none of it is digital. As the designer of hand-painted billboards that hang over the entrance to Athens' Athinaion cinema advertising the newest film, she can count on a regular audience without having to embrace the internet.

Greece's last film poster painter soldiers on

By Sophie Makris

Far from the limelight of Cannes, Greece's last painter of film posters toils away in a little garden studio to deliver his latest commission.

Vassilis Dimitriou is 80 years old, works alone and knows his days on the job are numbered -- his left hand trembles from the early onset of Parkinson's disease.