A young guy, listening to "Power Of Love" on repeat, gets prepared to offer himself as a sex-toy to his boyfriend, as a celebration gift for their 3rd anniversary.
YORGOS SAMARAS
DIRECTED BY
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS
PRODUCER
SEE-GREEK DIRECTOR’S GUILD
WRITTEN BY
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS
GRIGORIS SKARAKIS
CINEMATOGRAPHY
FANOURIOS KAZAKIS
EDITING
PANOS AGGELOPOULOS
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS
SOUND & SOUND DESIGN
CHRISTOS SAKELLARIOU
“SPARKLING CANDLES”
A SEE-ΕΕΣ PRODUCTION
WITH A COLLABORATION OF THESSALONIKI IFF
GENRE: LGBTQ+ - Short Film - Comedy
YEAR: 2019
RUNTIME: 09:30 min
FORMAT: 2K | 4:3 | 24fps | 5:1 Sound | DCP |
SUBTITLES: English, TBA.
COUNTRY: Greece
DIRECTOR: Thanasis Neofotistos
PREMIERE: 43th Frameline (USA 06.2019)
WEBSITE: www.sparklingcandlesfilm.com
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*ΣΠΙΝΘΗΡΟΒΟΛΑ ΚΕΡΑΚΙΑ ΣΥΝΟΨΗ
Ένας νεαρός άνδρας, με την Celine Dion στο repeat, ετοιμάζεται και περιμένει τον φίλο του, στα τέσσερα, για να γιορτάσουν την τρίτη επέτειο τους.
*ΣΗΜΕΙΩΜΑ ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΤΗ
Ένα μικρό αποχαιρετιστήριο γράμμα προς το σπίτι μου και μια πέρα για πέρα ρεαλιστική προετοιμασία πριν την ερωτική πράξη.
● The song, that the young guy hears on repeat, is Céline Dion : "The Power of Love".
● The film is like a part of a mixed tape - a quick guide before sex - made as an old DVC Camcorder's Cassette.
● The location/house of the film was the home of the film director.
● It's the actor's Yorgos Samaras first film.
● Our mascot's name of the film is the yellow toy with hearts: The Heart-Boy!
INTERNATIONAL SALES
RADIATOR IP SALES
"This film is a farewell-letter to my home and a tribute to all gay-“normality”, dedicated to the cuteness and weirdness of stuff ...before sex!"
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS is a Film Director, Writer & Architect from Greece. Berlinale Talents alumnus and Head Programmer of Student Int. Competition at Drama ISFF. His short film, PATISION AVENUE (13’-2018), premiered at 75th Venice Film Festival, won 3 awards at 41st Clermont-Ferrand 2019 (Jury, Canal+, EFA) and has already been selected in more than 90 top-tier film festivals. ROUTE-3 (13’-2019) world premiered in official competition of 44th TIFF (Toronto) and had its European premiere at competition of 42nd Clermont-Ferrand 2020. GREEK SCHOOL PRAYER (20’-2014) was his successful thesis (Golden Dionysus), and SPARKLING CANDLES (9’-2019) is his LGBTQ+ sparkling short film, premiered in 43rd Frameline. He is now in the financing stage of his first-debut feature film, which he envisions as a dark, coming-of-age, folktale, PETER AND THE WOLF; the film got the main GFC & Media funding and has been developed, amongst other, at First-Films-First, MFI, Sarajevo Script Station. His next feature film project, WILD BOARS, is developing in Torino Film Lab & MFI.
DIRECTOR’s FILMOGRAPHY
► ROUTE-3 | Trojka (Fiction-2019-13’)
► SPARKLING CANDLES (Fiction-2019-9’)
► PATISION AVENUE (Fiction-2018-13’)
► FOUR DIMENSIONS AND ONE LAMP (Doc-2017-30')
► POGONISKOS (Documentary-2015-11')
► PROSEFHI: Greek School Prayer (Fiction- 2014-20')
► THE SUN AND THE WIND (Experimental 2013-10')
43th Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Festival
*Founded in 1977, the "Frameline" San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest and most widely recognized LGBTQ+ film exhibition event in the world! As a community event with an annual attendance of 60,000+, the Festival is the most prominent and well-attended LGBTQ+ arts program. | *read more:
● 43rd FRAMELINE LGBTQ+ (06.2019)
● 59th THESSALONIKI (11.2018)
● 18th PINK Screens Brussels (10.2019)
● 3rd FAROE Islands Minority IFF (10.2019)
● 30th HAMBUURG Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage IFF (10.2019)
● 4th NAHIA Film Fest Spain (11.2019)
● 27th QUEER SCREEN Mardi Gras IFF Sydney (02.2020)
● 23rd AMSTERDAM LGBTQ+ Film Festival (05.2020)
● 35th FREIBURG Schwule Filmwoche Germany (05.2020)
& 40 more IFF!
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