The award was given within the framework of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
The award stressed the crucial role of the technical expertise of the location manager in bringing a cinematic universe to life, while searching for the right places that are capable of hosting a genuine artistic vision.
According to the Jury, composed of Marios Dimopoulos (Location Manager of last year’s winning film RIVIERA by Orfeas Peretzis), Niki Saliagkopoulou (Location Manager of last year’s winning film RIVIERA by Orfeas Peretzis) & Neoklis Mantas (Film Commissioner): “For yet another year, the Hellenic Film Commission of the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center presents the Location Award to a location manager of a Greek film by a first-time director, which premieres in the Festival’s official program. Acting as catalysts during a film’s production, location managers play a crucial role in bringing a cinematic universe to life, seeking out the appropriate locations that can accommodate the vision of each creator.
In the film, the selected locations (the industrial sites, the shipyards and the refineries of Western Attica) are effectively “placing” the story in a post-apocalyptic timeless artistic universe. Combining the futuristic image of the majestic refineries—the mechanical heart of an uninhabited Gotham City—with the pervasive—both narratively and historically—sacred myth of Mother Earth’s death and rebirth, the film manages to speak, in a distinctive glocal cinematic manner, about the urgent need for a paradigm shift. Thus, Elefsina and its environs succeed in becoming the ideal setting for hosting an eco-feminist story about the days that follow the end of the world as we know it”.
The award was received by Petros Chytiris (location manager of GORGONá), and Stavros Liokalos (production designer of GORGONá).
