It’s almost a month before this year ends and producers are hustling through funding sources like the National TV (ERT) and MEDIA for cash (a respectable amount) for me to make my film. And although this campaign goes significantly okay and the script is treated like a really good one that needs coherent support, here is the director of Greek Film Center rejecting it for – hear hear – being similar* to Julia Ducournau’s TITANE… And I should be angry and bitter cause I’ve been writing this piece of cinema for three year’s now but boy oh boy, don’t I love to be compared with a filmmaker and writer I admire and definitely want to impress? Oh yes I do.
*It’s not really similar tho, it just relevant to car fetishism and objectophilia or something and even that is a far fetched comparison cause the way my script (and in my opinion Ducournau’s film) is using the bond between the human and the machine may be trauma oriented and somewhat disturbing but it is mostly a form of process that tries to go from self-destruction to healing.
So here’s to Julia and to me. I’m humbled, honored and freaking excited!
life is a horror film synopsis 