Tonia Marketaki (Greek: Τώνια Μαρκετάκη; 28 July 1942 – 26 July 1994) was a Greek film director and screenwriter. She was born in Pireas and spent many of her childhood years in the Zografou district of Athens. Her maternal origins are from Kardamyla, in the island of Chios. She received her formal training at IDHEC in Paris and upon her return to Greece she worked as a film critic in various newspapers from 1963 until 1967. The same year sees the completion of her first short-film creation and subsequent imprisonment by the then recently established Colonels' regime. Upon her release Marketaki fled abroad, working as an assistant editor in the U.K. and a director of educational films for illiterate farmers in Algeria. In 1971 she again returned to her home-country. Apart from her three full-length films, she also directed a number of theatrical plays and a television series called Lemonodasos. Her final film Krystallines nyhtes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. She died suddenly of a heart attack two days before her 52nd birthday.
Weet wanneer de volgende film van Tonia Marketaki uitkomt
Volg één keer, wij laten het weten zodra hij in de bioscoop draait.
Tonia Marketaki was een baanbrekende filmregisseur en scenarioschrijver, opgeleid aan IDHEC in Parijs, die de nationale cinema na de dictatuur vormgaf.
Ze staat bekend om het regisseren van veelgeprezen speelfilms zoals John the Violent, The Price of Love en Crystal Nights.
Haar laatste speelfilm Crystal Nights ging in première in de sectie Un Certain Regard op het Filmfestival van Cannes in 1992.
