"TA NEA" PRESS CLIP

THE NEWS (TA NEA) PRESS CLIP

Respected film critic Pavlos Kagios of prestigious newspaper TA NEA (THE NEWS) that outsells all others on a daily basis and is owned by media giant THE LABRAKIS JOURNALIST'S GROUP (DOL) was the very first to write/publish about the scandal of corruption of Greek Film Center officials turning down SOCRATES...Corruption runs high on every level of the Hellenic public life and things are getting worse every day...The blogger's joke goes that since Greece is the country that gave birth to drama (in the widest sense of the term including theater, entertaiment) it's also the country that's gonna give (it) the (kiss of) death.
So long for optimism!

EPSILON PRESS CLIP

A press clip from magazine EPSILON of newspaper KIRIAKATIKI ELEFTEROTYPIA (SUNDAY FREEPRESS) written by journalist Yiannis Triantafyllou on SOCRATES.

HERMES

Mr. Hermes....

Here's our poster.

DANCE CLUB

Here's Turbo El and rapper Tritonem at Manhattan dance club.

Here's a photo of Turbo El.

... In the meantime we have prepared the first hilarious adventure of Turbo El. Called "The Turbo El Show", it's an animated tv series with the time-travelling adventures of Turbo El, Socrates and Hermis-see www.socratesfilm.com- and many other characters from the film and others designed from the scratch...
The pilot is called "Archie's Principle". Coming soon at a small screen near you.

And a very heartfelt THANK YOU to FOX FILMED ENTERTAINMENT, President & CEO James N. Gianopulos, one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. His epistle-about SOCRATES- reads:"...I know your devotion to your craft ....will bring you success in the future..."

Thank you for your generocity Mr. Gianopulos.
And your words of encouragment.

...We are currently working at sound fx and music for the film. Days are very hectic. It's a lot of work but somehow we create magic that's going to make filmgoers very happy indeed...

Our film SOCRATES is 110 minutes long without the end titles. It's wide screen, 2K, resolution, the first ever feature length animated film to come out from Greece. It's an international co-production, with an English script. Has superb music tracks and lots of sound FX. Hope you'll enjoy it. It took four years out of my life. Eight years since my first short-length feature "ANCIENT GREEK'S SYMPOSIUM" came out in the theaters. My third short-length animated feature was distributed by VILLAGE ROADSHOW, along with domestic blockbuster "A TOUCH OF SPICE". Over 1.650.000 admissions and a record-breaking 60 prints. A collector's DVD was distributed by AUDIOVISUAL, which distibutes Disney, Touchstone, Buena Vista, Sony. It outsold the summer of 2004 many bigger budget foreign and local productions...During the Olympic Games of 2004 I started writing the script of SOCRATES, aiming to do an upbeat, positive thinking film. People who read the script find it hilarious and funny. In another post I"ll take the opportunity to thank the people who believed in me and supported my vision during the "cultural Middle Ages" we are still suffering in Hellas, the country that once was the cornerstone of the Western civilization...

You Tube Sample

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEwQr8GmgSI
You can see a sample, albeit very compressed, in You Tube. This is not the final cut.

SOCRATES

Merry Christmas to you all.
Hopefully 2008 will bring animated film SOCRATES: LOST IN OLYMPIA to a multiplex near you.
We are also developing a SOCRATES videogame and a time travelling comedy/adventure hal;f hour animated tv series.

THE START

Visit the websites for my films:
www.aslsmovie.com
www.socratesfilm.com
More to follow...