PARK by Sofia Exarchou

2016 Greek & English 100 Greece & Poland

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Production Company Neda Film Amanda Livanou Producer [email protected]

Faliro House Productions Christos V. Konstantakopoulos Producer [email protected]

Madants (Poland) Klaudia Smieja, Beata Rzezniczek Co-Producers Athens Olympic Village, ten years after the Games: wilding youths, injured retired athletes and stray dogs among ruins and decaying sports venues. SYNOPSIS Isolated and abandoned, surrounded by decaying sport venues, the Athens Olympic Village is today a near-deserted place, its only residents a few working class families offered free housing following the 2004 Games. Stuck inside the Village, a group of boys wander around the ruins playing distorted versions of Olympic games and organizing dog matings for money. The eldest of the gang, Dimitris(17) along with Anna, a retired athlete of 22, will try to escape the confines of the Village for the seaside Β- class resorts in the outskirts of Athens. During their visits and as they penetrate more and more into the lives of the foreign tourists, Dimitris’ desire for acceptance is tested in brutal ways.

Dimitris Kitsos Dimitris Faliro House Presents a Faliro House / Neda Film Production in Dimitra Vlagkopoulou Anna co-production with Greek Film Center ERT Madants Sofia Exarchou Enuki Gvenatadze Markos Line Producer Yorgos Papadimitriou Hair Chronis Tzimos Makeup Lena Kitsopoulou Dimitris' Mother Kiriaki Melidou Costumes Marli Aliferi Sets Pinelopi Valti Sound Yorgos Pandeleakis Mother's boyfriend Stefanos Efthimiou Costas Varypobiotis Persefoni Miliou Valia Tsirou & Thomas Bo Larsen Jens Editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis Sofia Exarchou Music The Boy Director of Photography Monika Lenczewska PSC Associate Producers Klaudia Śmieja Beata Rzeźniczek Producers Amanda Livanou Christos V. Konstantakopoulos Written & Directed by Sofia Exarchou Village kids Julio Katsis Julio Goga Tsiklauri Goga David Szymczak David Supported by the Sundance Institute & the Onassis Foundation Minella Balli Panagiotis Papadopoulos Nikos Zeginoglou Mario Tzutti Developed with the support of the CNC Savvas Bakachashvili (Crossroads Thessaloniki Prize, 2012) Yorgos Monastiriotis & Teo Angelov the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe (Cinelink Sarajevo Prize, 2013) Director’s Note

Through the intersecting stories of the kids of the Sofia Exarchou was born in Athens, where she Olympic Village, Park tries to create the portrayal of received degrees in Electrical Engineering and Film a lost generation that has been deprived of its future. Studies. She studied theater at the Stella Adler Studio Among the abandoned sport facilities, the ruins and in New York and pursued post-graduate film studies the new-money tourist resorts, the film crosses in Toulouse. She has been working as an assistant Greece’s “glorious” past with the decadence of today, director in feature films and commercials since 2004. depicting a society unprepared for the brutal fall. She has written and directed two short films, In this remnant from the past, the kids' need to Distance and award–winning Mesecina. In 2014, belong is vital and their efforts increasingly violent she participated in the Sundance Screenwriters & and futile. Directors’ Lab. Park is her first feature films, which has already won multiple international development awards (Works in Progress Award, Karlovy Vary Film Festival / Eurimages development award, Cinelink- Sarajevo Film Festival, CNC development award, Crossroads-Thessaloniki Film Festival) The Cast

Dimitris Kitsos Actor, Dimitri

Dimitris Kitsos was born in Ioannina, norhern Greece. He graduated from the Drama School of the Greek National Theatre (2015). In 2008 he co-founded the theater group C (for circus). He has worked the Greek National Theater with the directors Dimitris Karatzas, Stamatis Fasoulis, Antzela Brouskou. Park is his film debut.

Dimitra Vlagkopoulou Actress, Anna

Dimitra Vlagkopoulou was born in Athens. She graduated from the Drama School of the Greek National Theatre in 2012 and Greek National School of Dance in 2005. She has worked the theater with the directors Akyllas Karazisis, Thodoros Moscho- poulos, A. Bennett, Ektoras Lygizos, Katerina Evagelatou, Stathis Livathinos. Park is her film debut.

Thomas Bo Larsen Actor, Jens

Thomas Bo Larsen was born in Gladsaxe, Denmark. He is an actor and frequent collaborator of Thomas Vinteberg, known for The Hunt (2012), Festen (The Celebration) (1998) and Pusher (1996). He was nominated for a Bodil Award in 1995 for Best Supporting Actor in "Sidste time", and later won two Robert Awards, the first in 1996 for Best Actor in "De største helte", and a second one in 1998 for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Festen" by Thomas Vinterberg. He has appeared in 54 movies since 1984. www.thomasbolarsen.dk The Crew

Monika Lenczewska PSC Pinelopi Valti Director of Photography Art Director

Monika Lenczewska is a member of the International Born in Greece, she has worked with Panos H. Cinematographers Guild (ICG) and Polish Society of Koutras in "Xenia" (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2014) Cinematographers (PSC). She has been listed & "Strella" (Berlinale Panorama 2009), "The Eternal among Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch Return of Antonis Paraskevas" by Elina Psykou 2016. Her work has been selected in numerous film (Berlinale 2013) and her follow up "Son of Sofia" festivals including Sundance (nominantion for best (in post production), and Alexis Alexiou's "Tale 52" cinematography in 2014 for DIFRET – EP Angelina (2006). Jolie), Cannes, Tribeca, Rotterdam and Camerimage (Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition). Monika is a cinematographer of over thirty award-winning short and feature-lenght films including Chiki Anadu’s Marli Aliferi B for Boy, Malik Vitthal’s Imperial Dreams and Sofia Costumes Exarchou’s Park. Monika participated in the Sundance Directors Lab 2014. In 2015, She also served as Filmography: "The Eternal Return of Antonis DOP in her first full-lenght Polish filmStrange Paraskevas" (2013), "Runaway Day" (2014), Heaven directed by Dariusz Gajewski. Monika is the "Suntan" (2015), "Son of Sofia" (2016 - post cinematographer in Message from the King directed production). by Fabrice Du Welz, starring Alfred Molina, produced by David Lancaster (Drive, Whiplash and Nightcrawler). The film is currently in post-production.

Yorgos Mavropsaridis Editor

He lives and works in Athens. He has edited countless films and is the frequent collaborator of Yorgos Lanthimos, having edited all his films since his 2005 debut "Kinetta", and is presently editing the new feature by the director "The Killing of a Sacred Deer". Other credits include Dennis Iliadis' "Hardcore" (2004) and "Plus One" (2013), Athina Rachel Tsangari's "Chevalier" (Best Film, BFI 2015), Venice Special Jury Prize winner "Sivas" by Kaan Müjdeci (2014), "Yellow Mud" by Renard Vimba (Best Feature Film, Berlinale Generation 14plus 2016), "Modris" by Juris Kursietis (2014), "Luton" (2013) by Michalis Konstantatos and many more. About Production Companies

Neda Film was established in Athens in 2014 by Faliro House was founded in 2008 by Christos V. MADANTS/ Klaudia Śmieja & Beata Rzeźniczek producer Amanda Livanou as a vehicle for the Konstantakopoulos and has since produced and One of 2016’s EFP Cannes ‘Producer’s on the Move’, production of feature and documentary films as well co-produced more than 40 films, includingThe Klaudia Smieja’s most recent co-producing credits as for international co-productions filmed or with Founder by John Lee Hancock, Little Men by Ira include the award-winning Icelandic hit Rams and Greece. Amanda has previously produced 10 feature Sachs, Midnight Special by Jeff Nichols, Chevalier by Anne Fontaine's Innocent, shot entirely in Poland, films, including"L" by Babis Makridis (World Drama Athina Rachel Tsangari, The Lobster by Yorgos which premiered at Sundance this year. Her current Competition, Sundance Film Festival 2012, "They Lanthimos, Before Midnight by Richard Linklater, slate of projects include (lead Producer on) Glow in the Dark", by Panagiotis Evangelidis, Winner, Stratos by Yannis Economides, Miss Violence by Agnieszka Holland's Gareth Jones and minority Best Documentary, Hellenic Film Awards 2014, Alexandros Avranas and Only Lovers Left Alive by co-productions, which she produces together with "Screamin Jay Hawkins :I Put a Spell on Me", Jim Jarmusch. Upcoming projects include Pity by Beata Rzeźniczek underMadantsSp z o.o. : SofIa’s by Nicholas Triandafyllides. Babis Makridis, The Names by Alex Ross Perry, Exarchou debut Park, Claire Denis’ highly anticipated based on the book by Don DeLillo, Voyage Of Time High Life, Hafsteinn Sigurdsson's multi-character In addition Neda produces commercials and corporate by Terrence Malick, Park by Sofia Exarchou,The drama Under the Tree, Foam at the Mouth by Latvian videos for selected clients. Neda is currently in post-­ Tunnels by Paul Greengrass, Membrane by Yannis director Janis Nords and PITY by Greece's Babis production for its first feature film“Park” by Sofia Veslemes, Stranger Here Myself written by Emma Makridis. www.madants.pl Exarchou, in collaboration with Madants Films Doxiadi, Ballad For A Pierced Heart by Yannis (Poland). Currently in editing are the new documen- Economides and Love Me Not by Alexandros Avranas. taries from Panagiotis Evangelidis and Eva Stefani. www.falirohouse.com Neda is developing Filippos Tsitos' new film "Receptions", his follow up to 2011's "Unfair World". Currently in post production is Sofia Exarchou’s feature debut Park (Eurimages Award, Cinelink, Sarajevo FF 2013), Sundance Screenwriter’s lab, 2013) and in development Babis Makridis’ Pity. www.nedafilm.gr