Eames Demetrios

A compelling interest in images and their effect on one's imagination led Eames Demetrios to see more than 500 movies in his senior year of high school. After graduating from college in the mid-1980s, Demetrios moved from his native San Francisco to Los Angeles where he honed his filmmaking skills at various film and TV production companies. Mastering his craft, Eames Demetrios went on to create critically acclaimed award-winning films, videos and interactive media projects. The prestigious Long Beach Museum of Art Open Channels grant provided funding for Carpool, August 21, 1992 (1992). Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times issued a "highly recommended" mark to Demetrios' documentary recording the closing of the Charles Eames and Ray Eames studio, 901: After 45 Years of Working, which had also been invited to screen at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. 1992 also saw Eames Demetrios winning a Gold Medal for Best First Feature at the Houston Film Festival for The Giving, which he wrote,