By Christopher Vourlias

A week after Greece's Oscar selection process descended into chaos, with all but two of the 23 nominated films withdrawing from the international feature film race at the 97th Academy Awards, film industry representatives met with government officials this week to discuss their grievances and devise a solution to growing frustrations over the state of Greece's troubled film industry.

Producer Maria Drandaki, who was part of a delegation from the Audiovisual Producers Association of Greece (SAPOE) that met with representatives of the Ministry of Culture on Tuesday, said the Oscar debacle is just "the tip of the iceberg".

"I think the problem is now bigger than the Oscars," she said. "This very wrong approach to the situation is combined with the tension that has been here for months in the audiovisual sector." She added: "There is a lot of tension that we have tried to manage… and we have never been heard [by the government]."