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Exclusive: Cate Blanchett and her team at Dirty Films are coming on board as executive producers on the Christos Nikou-directed Apples, the film which opened Venice Orizzonti section to strong reviews and was also a selection of Telluride and TIFF and is a potential for the Greece’s choice for Best International Feature Film.
Blanchett, Andrew Upton, and Coco Francini of Dirty Films are now exec producers of the pandemic-set film, which is now playing all the festivals. While most of those festivals were virtual, Venice was the exception and Blanchett discovered the film while she presided over the jury of the Golden Lion section, and took time to see the film in the Orizzonti section. She formed a new creative collaboration with the film and Nikou, who made his debut as director after working as Ad for filmmakers including Richard Linklater and Yorgot Lanthimos.
“Apples is an unforgettable,...
Blanchett, Andrew Upton, and Coco Francini of Dirty Films are now exec producers of the pandemic-set film, which is now playing all the festivals. While most of those festivals were virtual, Venice was the exception and Blanchett discovered the film while she presided over the jury of the Golden Lion section, and took time to see the film in the Orizzonti section. She formed a new creative collaboration with the film and Nikou, who made his debut as director after working as Ad for filmmakers including Richard Linklater and Yorgot Lanthimos.
“Apples is an unforgettable,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Apples
Christos Nikou makes his directorial debut with Apples, produced by Marius Wlodarski, Angelos Venetis and Iraklis Mavroidis and Aris Dagios. The title stars Aris Servetalis and Babis Makidris (the director of 2012’s L and 2018’s Pity). Nikou served as as assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013). His short debut Km was released in 2012.
Gist: Co-written by Stavros Raptis, Apples focuses on Aris, a thirty-something solitary man afflicted by an unexplained surge of amnesia which seems to be sweeping the city.…...
Christos Nikou makes his directorial debut with Apples, produced by Marius Wlodarski, Angelos Venetis and Iraklis Mavroidis and Aris Dagios. The title stars Aris Servetalis and Babis Makidris (the director of 2012’s L and 2018’s Pity). Nikou served as as assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013). His short debut Km was released in 2012.
Gist: Co-written by Stavros Raptis, Apples focuses on Aris, a thirty-something solitary man afflicted by an unexplained surge of amnesia which seems to be sweeping the city.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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