Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Foivos Dousos Fotografia / Photography: Mihalis Gkatzogias Montaggio / Editing: Fil Ieropoulos Musica / Music: Lykourgos Porfyris Suono / Sound: Giorgos Kravvaritis, Pantelis Pilavios, Christos Sakellariou, GeorgieBoy Effetti speciali / Special Effects: Petros Antoniou Animazioni / Animation: Angelos Charalambous Interpreti / Cast: Marisha Triantafyllidou (voce narrante / narrator), Kangela Tromokratisch, Er Libido, Aurora Paola Morado, Parakatyanova, SerGay Patakatyanov, McMorait, Cotsos, Lala Kolopi, Veronique & Cruella Tromokratisch Produzione / Produced by: FYTA Films, Fil Ieropoulos Coproduzione / Co-produced by: Frenel in associazione con / in association with Love Your Media Con il sostegno di / Supported by: EKK/Greek Film Centre Distribuzione internazionale / World Sales: WE ARE HERE
“In the poetic documentary Avant-Drag!, we follow the lives of ten Athens-based drag performers as they create their temporary worlds as a refuge against a hostile reality. By closely watching the protagonists’ lives and modes of expression, we get in touch with a new scene that has been blossoming in recent years and discover through them how the art of drag can transform reality and create safe spaces for people marginalised by Greek society … Avant-Drag! breaks the conventions of queer/identity documentaries that at times take a journalistic/cinematically minimal and distant, ‘objective’ approach, choosing to create instead a surreal collage in which narratives and images are built alongside the very subjects presented. A community speaks for itself without the mediation of an outsider’s gaze … The colourful world of the protagonists intertwines in a psychedelic assemblage of images and references, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, literal and metaphorical, the filmmaker himself and the protagonists.” (F. Ieropoulos)
Fil Ieropoulos
Film director Fil Ieropoulos was born in Athens in 1978. He studied film, cultural studies and communication in the UK and in 2010 he completed his PhD with a specialisation in film poetry at the University of Kent. His second feature, Avant-Drag! premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and won a special jury mention at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
2020 Trilogy XYZ mm / ml 2021 Orfeas2021 2024 Avant-Drag! Radical Performers Re- Imagine Athens; Premi / Awards: Thessaloniki IDF – Menzione speciale della giuria / Special Mention of the Jury
