Docu-Series in development: “Hollywood Greek Fire – ΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΧΟΛΙΓΟΥΝΤ”

documentary-series in development

director Sakis Lalas

scriptwriter Valentina De Giorgi

Patrick Tatopoulos is a production designer, but he looks rather like a rock star. He loves freedom and cruising the Pacific Coast Highway on his black bike. It was natural for him to design the most spectacular Batmobile Batman has ever driven.

Spyros Skouras Jr. grew up on bread and cinema: his grandfather Spyros Skouras was the legendary President of the 20^th Century Fox (from 1942 till 1962). Today he is a Hollywood agent, with a great passion: archaeology. To which he dedicates all his free time.

Mary Zophres is a costume designer, she designed the costumes of cult movies like “Lalaland” and “The Big Lebowski”. But she is above all a mother: every day, before going to the studios, she makes breakfast for her child and puts away his toys scattered around the house.

Jim Gianopulos is the former CEO of Paramount. He always looks forward, he does not keep up with the times, he anticipates them. But there are two constant things in his life: the continuation of traditions and his guitar, that he always plays while sipping a coffee, strictly Greek.

Stratton Leopold is a film producer. He is big on family and, even in his years as Vice President of Production at Paramount, he never stopped to run the ice-cream parlour opened by his parents who emigrated to US from Greece.

These are just some of the characters of this docu-series, dedicated to Hollywood’s big names united by their Greek roots.

“Hollywood Greek Fire” started as a Sakis Lalas photographic project and an exhibition displayed in Athens in December 2018, during the Film Factory of the Hellenic Film Academy.

Now it becomes a documentary-series.

Every episode is a sneeking into the lives of people that made – and still today make – the history of cinema, TV and theater. Men and women with strong Greek roots that they never forgot, because from those roots comes their strength, their ability to accept the challenges knowing that everything is possible. Their ardent passion is a fire that never dies out. A Greek fire.

Production stage:

The docu-series is currently at the development stage. The Dark Candy Productions has already secured access to all the subjects involved and are now looking for funding and Co-Producers.

For more info contact: sakis@thedarkcandy.com

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Read the press about us:

Kathimerini Newspaper

Senal News magazine

ASVOFF Paris Fashion Film Festival

Cosmopolitan magazine

STYLE Corriere della Sera magazine

O Globo magazine

Marie Claire magazine

LIFO magazine

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KARY ANTHOLIS – Former President HBO (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

JIM GIANOPULOS – Former CEO Paramount (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

STRATTON LEOPOLD – Producer Mission impossible III (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

PATRICK TATOPOULOS – Production Designer Batman V Superman (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

MARY ZOPHRES – Costume Designer La La Land (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

LIZZIE GEORGIOU – Make Up Designer Guardians of the Galaxy I (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

JO KATSARAS – Costume Designer Fear the Walking Dead (Sakis Lalas@photo)

MARIA MENOUNOS – TV Anchorwoman E!News U.S.A. (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

JOANNA TOPETZES – Stage Producer (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

EVAN SPILIOTOPOULOS – screenwriter Beauty and the Beast 2017 (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

ANTHEA SYLBERT – Costume Designer Chinatown & Rosemary’s Baby (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

HARIS ZAMBARLOUKOS – Director of Photography Cinderella 2017 (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

CHRISI KARVONIDES – Costume Designer American Horror Story (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

 

PHEDON PAPAMICHAEL – Director of Photography Nebraska (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT – Composer The Grand Budapest Hotel (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

ROMAIN GAVRAS – Director The world is yours (Sakis Lalas@photo)

 

SPYROS SKOURAS Jr. – Hollywood talent agent (Sakis Lalas@photo)