The debut film by Yorgos Gousis won prizes for best film first-time director, screenplay and actress.
Newcomer Yorgos Gousis’s Magnetic Fields and Grigoris Karantinakis’ second film Smyrna have dominated the 2022 Iris film awards of the Hellenic Film Academy.
Magnetic Fields won for best film, first- time director, screenplay and best actress prizes, while Smyrna was awarded the trophies for best cinematography, production design and costume design.
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Magnetic Fields is a road movie about a man and a woman who have met by chance on a boat and decide to stick together...
Newcomer Yorgos Gousis’s Magnetic Fields and Grigoris Karantinakis’ second film Smyrna have dominated the 2022 Iris film awards of the Hellenic Film Academy.
Magnetic Fields won for best film, first- time director, screenplay and best actress prizes, while Smyrna was awarded the trophies for best cinematography, production design and costume design.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
Magnetic Fields is a road movie about a man and a woman who have met by chance on a boat and decide to stick together...
- 6/15/2022
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Araceli Lemos is a director, writer, and editor born in Athens, Greece, currently based in Los Angeles. Her debut feature, “Holy Emy” premiered at Locarno Iff 2021, where it won the Special Mention of the competition section “Filmmakers of the Present.”
Abigael Loma is an actress who made her debut in Holy Emy.
Joel Garber is a consulting producer in Holy Emy, and also a script writer, director, editor and actor. Other works of his include Connie (2017) and Scenes from a Real Marriage (2018).
On the occasion of “Holy Emy” screening in Thessaloniki International Film Festival, we speak with them a
Can you tell me a bit about how you ended up shooting a film about two Filipino sisters in Greece?
Araceli Lemos: In the beginning, the script was a theoretical idea about two sisters, which actually came from a short story from Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa, who was writing about her...
Abigael Loma is an actress who made her debut in Holy Emy.
Joel Garber is a consulting producer in Holy Emy, and also a script writer, director, editor and actor. Other works of his include Connie (2017) and Scenes from a Real Marriage (2018).
On the occasion of “Holy Emy” screening in Thessaloniki International Film Festival, we speak with them a
Can you tell me a bit about how you ended up shooting a film about two Filipino sisters in Greece?
Araceli Lemos: In the beginning, the script was a theoretical idea about two sisters, which actually came from a short story from Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa, who was writing about her...
- 11/17/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
It is not everyday we get to watch a Greek production about Filipinos in Greece, and even more, one that looks as a Filipino film at least as much as a Greek. Araceli Lemos, however, has managed to do just that, in a movie that is as weird as it is intriguing, and captivating on occasion.
“Holy Emy” is screening at the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival
With their mother having returned to the Philippines after some mysterious incidents in the house she used to work as a domestic help, sisters Emy and Teresa are left to fend for themselves for the most part, with the help of an aunt, Linda, and the Filipino Catholic community in Athens. Teresa works at a fish seller’s and she tries to convince the owner to hire her sister also, but Emy has an unusual condition that causes her to shed tears of blood,...
“Holy Emy” is screening at the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival
With their mother having returned to the Philippines after some mysterious incidents in the house she used to work as a domestic help, sisters Emy and Teresa are left to fend for themselves for the most part, with the help of an aunt, Linda, and the Filipino Catholic community in Athens. Teresa works at a fish seller’s and she tries to convince the owner to hire her sister also, but Emy has an unusual condition that causes her to shed tears of blood,...
- 11/12/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Araceli Lemos shooting her feature debut, Holy Emy - Production / Funding - Greece/France
The Greek writer-director is getting stuck into the shoot for her first feature, which follows a young woman suffering from a strange, supernatural condition. Splitting her time between Athens and Los Angeles, Greek writer-director and editor Araceli Lemos had her latest short film, Miguel Alvarez Wears a Wig, screened at several festivals, including Tampere and Leeds, among others. Lemos is currently shooting her debut feature-length film, Holy Emy, which won the North Macedonian Film Agency Award at Sarajevo CineLink in 2017, and which participated in the 2018 Eave and Ties That Bind programmes. The screenplay, written by the director and Giulia Caruso, follows Emy (Abigael Loma) and her sister, Teresa (Hasmine Kilip), who are both members of the Catholic Filipino community of Piraeus. For unknown reasons, Emy experiences some unexpected bleeding episodes. Teresa decides to hide her from the outside world and protects Emy by keeping her isolated, as she’s...
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