Brando with a Glass Eye to have Australian premiere at Greek Film Festival

"Brando with a Glass Eye" by award winning Greek Australian director Antonis Tsonis will have its Australian premiere at the 29th Greek Film Festival to be held 15 - 27 October.

"Brando with a Glass Eye" is produced by Tia Spanos Tsonis and Blake Northfield and has received 6 festival nominations for best feature film to date including Slamdance Film Festival  and Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film is distributed in Australia by Screen Inc.

Starring Yiannis Niarros, Kostas Nikouli, Alexandros Chrysanthopoulos, Xenia Dania, Chara Mata Giannatou, Maria Kallimani, Giannis Tsortekis, Alkistis Giraud, Ioli Charalampopoulou, Panos Zygouros, and Panagiotis Exarheas "Brando with a Glass Eye" is the story of a young method actor who works as a mechanic in Athens, where he gets away with a heist that goes wrong. He befriends the critically injured victim, as he tries to reconcile his guilt before he leaves for his one shot audition in New York City.

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THE STORY:

Luca is a talented method actor who has brutally abandoned his emerging career in the Athens theatre scene, as he is determined to leave for New York City and study method acting there. He works as a mechanic for 4 euro an hour and lives in Kypseli with his younger brother, Aleko, in a run-down apartment. Their mother has passed away after suffering from a series of beatings by Kosta, their father, who is in jail for a different crime.

The two brothers are in conflict with their future. The pragmatic Aleko is determined to lift himself out of poverty and focuses on opening a Cognac Bar. For Luca, the loss of his mother threatens to spell the death of his being if he cannot translate it into a meaningful artistic expression.

Ο Λουκάς, ένας ταλαντούχος μεθοδικός ηθοποιός που έχει εγκαταλείψει βάναυσα την ανερχόμενη καριέρα του στη θεατρική σκηνή της Αθήνας, είναι αποφασισμένος να φύγει για τη Νέα Υόρκη και να σπουδάσει υποκριτική εκεί. Εργάζεται ως μηχανικός με 4 ευρώ την ώρα και μένει στην Κυψέλη με τον μικρότερο αδερφό του, Αλέκο, σε ένα ερειπωμένο διαμέρισμα. Η μητέρα τους πέθανε μετά από μια σειρά ξυλοδαρμών από τον Κώστα, τον πατέρα τους, ο οποίος βρίσκεται στη φυλακή για ένα διαφορετικό έγκλημα.

Τα δύο αδέρφια βρίσκονται σε σύγκρουση με το μέλλον τους. Ο πραγματιστής Αλέκος είναι αποφασισμένος να βγάλει τον εαυτό του από τη φτώχεια και επικεντρώνεται στο άνοιγμα ενός Cognac Bar. Για τον Λουκά, η απώλεια της μητέρας του θα φέρει το τέλος της ύπαρξής του, αν δεν μπορέσει αν δεν μπορέσει εκφραστεί καλλιτεχνικά.

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Screenings: Sydney Wed 23 Oct, 8:30 pm, Melbourne Thursday 24th October 2024, 7:00pm

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ABOUT ANTONIS TSONIS

Antonis Tsonis is a Greek born, writer/director, who studied law and history and received his Doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Antonis' narrative and visual inspiration comes from Italian neorealist cinema, the French poetic realists and the independent American new wave movement of the 1970's.

A contemporary filmmaker, Antonis is especially focused on stories about characters struggling on the fringes of society. His themes are contemporary, and his style is timeless - his stories could be set in any language or in any city.

Antonis, is celebrated as one of Greece's most successful independent short filmmakers. His body of work has received critical acclaim and has also resonated particularly well in Italy and within the U.S. independent film circuit. His short films have played in over 100 film festivals and have received many awards and nominations worldwide. In 2013, his independent short film, The Firebird, received many awards and won Best Dramatic Short at the Manhattan Film Festival. In 2016, 3000 participated in over 70 International Official Selections and awards festivals, won 18 awards and received 18 nominations for Excellence in Film.

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