SYNOPSIS
Shot and produced entirely in Greece, in locations around the cities of Kastoria and Florina, ‘Bandogs’ is based on the original script by Artemis Fradelou and is primarily produced as a short film. Still, there are more Bandogs where the first one came from and that is one of the upcoming projects of Spying Art Productions.
BRIEF
What would it be like if the ancient myth of the necromancers of the Acherusia lake survived till today? What if such oracles existed, that claimed they could intermediate to bring the living in touch with their beloved dead?
If they still existed, they would be bandogs. They lead a solitary life with the exclusive purpose of guiding a person who lost a beloved, in order to confront his cherished one… or confront that very absence… or the guilt and unanswered questions that rise from such a loss.
She is a bandog. Her past is dark enough to be one, and the pain she has been through herself is constantly implied by her scarred face. Despite her agony behind her, she is wise enough to guide him, light his path, help him avoid bitterness and dead ends. She is almost like the inner calm he has long lost.
He is a man of agitation and anxiety, that stirs up everything about his life: emotions, queries, conclusions. He seeks to communicate with his dead wife and daughter and finds her, the bandog that will take him there. But where? How does she do that? What is it that she really does? Does she know what death is?
Or, as she would correct him, ‘what death is NOT’?
QUOTES
A weapon can only be useful if you’re out of sense.
But if you have no sense, you’d better not have a weapon in your hands.
You keep trying to define death.
Death begins right where your definitions end.
CREDITS
DIRECTED BY
WRITTEN BY
Spyros Athinaiou
Artemis Fradelou
CAST
Giorgos Zois
Artemis Fradelou
Miltos Maleas
Vangelis Anastasiou
John Paneris
Spyros Athinaiou
Sergei ‘Monk’ Riamptsouk
Stella Giourouki
Stefanos Georgiadis
Aggeliki Matousi
Eleftheria Pantazi
Zisiana Kota
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
CAMERA ASSISTANT
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
EDITING – POST PRODUCTION
SOUND RECORDING
SOUND DESIGN
SPECIAL EFFECTS
MAKEUP & SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKEUP ARTIST
MAKEUP ASSISTANT & HAIR ARTIST
VOICE OVER
SCREENPLAY CONSULTANT
COSTUMES
HORSE INTRUCTOR
HORSES
Spying Art Productions – Artemis Fradelou
Sideris Nanoudis
Thanasis Tsakonas
Stefanos Georgiadis
Miltos Maleas
Stavros Symeonidis
John Paneris
Christos Sakellariou
Dionisis Thanos
Katerina Pismiri
Stella Giourouki
Spyros Athinaiou
Linda Olszewski
Artemis Fradelou
Sakis Voglidis
Sadam
Ivan
Maya
Sotiris
SOCIAL
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