Cyprus Comic Con Film Festival: The Official Selection!

29/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

We are happy to announce the 27 contestants for the 3^rd Cyprus Comic Con Film Fest.

One of the many parts of the CCC is an in-house film festival specializing in screening genre short films (sci-fi, horror, fantasy, fan films etc.) from local and international filmmakers, and this year is no exception!

You are all invited to Hall 28 in order to enjoy the 27 selected short films on Saturday, 2^nd of September between 11:00am – 13:00pm and Sunday, 3^rd of September between 10:30am – 12:30pm.

Our last year’s best local production winner, Y.K.AN., written and directed by Andreas Sheittanis, will also be screened on Saturday 2^nd of September at 13:00pm. Do not miss out on this opportunity to watch it once again on the big screen!

Once again, congratulations to all filmmakers and thanks to everyone who submitted. We cannot wait to watch your new films next year!

Here is this year’s lineup:

Screening Order for Saturday (11:00 – 13:00)

All The Marbles by Carl Petersen – Rating: G

United States – Runtime 17:31 – Rating: G | Director – Michael Swingler | Writers – Carl Petersen, Michael Swingler | Key Cast – Cole Sand, Carl Petersen, Helen Sadler, Christopher Franciosa | | In a magical world where marbles are as precious as gold, a timid boy named Jamison wins the most valuable marble of them all. When a villainous bully named Wolf decides to snatch his favorite marble, the boy challenges him to an epic match that could cost him much more than he expected. | | goo.gl/z7hVcS

Cam by Jennifer Begeman – Rating: G

Lanky Lad by Helen Dean – Rating: G

Canada – Runtime 01:44 – Rating: G | Director – Helen Dean | Writer – Helen Dean | Music – Drake Tuura | | A skinny man is training really hard for something. One might think it’s for a physical fight. However, the true fight is within himself. It is a fight for courage and bravery. Sometimes something as small as saying hello to some one is the biggest fight that some one can have. He overcomes his fear, reaching out, and ultimately wins his battle. | | goo.gl/MR5ykT

Little Conductor by Soo Yeon Lee – Rating: G

Starry Skies by Sarah Schmidt – Rating: G

United States – Runtime 02:11 – Rating: G | Director – Sarah Schmidt | Writer – Sarah Schmidt | | Starry Skies is about a little girl who loves stars and astronomy. Unfortunately, she lives in the city, where tall buildings and light pollution block her view of the night sky. Just as she loses hope of ever seeing the stars, a constellation comes to life and whisks her away on a magical journey through the stars. | | goo.gl/Wxdbj2

Icky by Parastoo Cardgar – Rating: G

Fear Of Heights by Benjamin Esterlis – Rating: PG

Equipoise by Gung-Kai Koo – Rating: G

United States – Runtime 03:00 – Rating: G | Director – Gung-Kai Koo | Writer – Gung-Kai Koo | | Equipoise is about positiveness, negativity and the opposite but complementary relationship between them. The spirit of the film is how they work together to reach the harmony and balance to react to stimulation, instead of judging the dominance or tendency of the two forces. | | goo.gl/CTCRmo

Chill and Shivering by Kwok Wai Chung Philip – Rating: PG

Hong Kong – Runtime 10:16 – Rating: PG | Director – Kwok Wai Chung Philip | Writer – Kwok Wai Chung Philip | | The protagonist is a typical young introvert who does not venture outdoors, lives in his own world, and is obsessed with computers, models and dolls. He occupies an old rented flat. One night, a mysterious thing happens. He is unaware that the dwelling was formerly a shop providing traditional Chinese herbal medical service, and that his environment has become supernatural. The experience turns out to be a life-changing one. | | goo.gl/2mYbAK

A Loft in Paradise by Alexandre Lança – Rating: PG

France – Runtime 17:32 – Rating: PG | Director – Alexandre Lança | Writers – Alexandre Lança, Vincent Menjou-Cortès | Key Cast – Vincent Menjou-Cortès, Manon Kneusé, Clara Bonnet | | Vincent and Emma die in a car accident. Arriving in Heaven, they discover a large and modern loft. But Charlotte, Emma’s sister and Vincent’s lover, eagerly wants to contact them in the afterlife…. | | goo.gl/hwNNye

Destroy Madrid by Joseba Alfaro – Rating: PG

Spain – Runtime 09:29 – Rating: PG | Director – Joseba Alfaro | Writer – Joseba Alfaro | Key Cast – Javier Server, Fernando Cayo, Ramón Quesada, Ricardo Reguera | | Madrid, 2030. In a world ravaged by the fight between governments and citizens, one member of the resistance has got a mysterious device that can finally end the war. Will he escape from the drones that guard the city? | | goo.gl/mTLmqp

Superman Meets Batman by Kacey Baker – Rating: PG

Australia – Runtime 19:21 – Rating: PG | Director – Kacey Baker | Writer – Kacey Baker | Key Cast – Troy Honeysett, Carmel Rose, Rupert Raineri, Alex Osmond, Christian Serge Charisiou, Erin Connor | | Bruce Wayne’s ego is tested when meeting Clark Kent via mutual friend Lois Lane. Superman helps The Batman finally catch The Joker without having to use his powers, proving once and for all that Superman if he wanted to, could dominate Batman in every way possible. | | goo.gl/sS2AEm

Knockers by Naima Chebahi – Rating: R

France – Runtime 23:55 – Rating: R | Director – Arnaud Mangin | Writer – Arnaud Mangin | Key Cast – Stephanie Kern Siebering, Gigi Ledron, Sophie Attelann | | When Sitcom characters must fight horror movies monsters. 80’s. Like every Saturday evening, Lisa and Friends want to get out. But something behind the door wants to get in…. | | goo.gl/xJQCDY

Screening Order for Sunday (10:30 – 12:30)

Gone Astray by Mabel Ye – Rating: G

She Never Felt The Cold by JD Gardner – Rating: G

Finito by Mauricio Bartok – Rating: G

Not That Beautiful by Miguel Quintero – Rating: PG

Canada – Runtime 05:49 – Rating: PG | Director – Miguel Quintero | Writer – Fernando Pintado | Key Cast – Cayetana Molla | | Snow White, fed up with the twists of her life, decides to have a few drinks at a bar, this being the start of a night you will never forget. | | goo.gl/Mn2uy6

Dinner For Few by Nassos Vakalis – Rating: PG

Greece – Runtime 10:09 – Rating: PG | Director – Nassos Vakalis | Writer – Nassos Vakalis | | “Dinner for Few” is an allegorical depiction of our society. During dinner, “the system” works like a well-oiled machine. It solely feeds the select few who eventually, foolishly consume all the resources while the rest survive on scraps from the table. Inevitably, when the supply is depleted, the struggle for what remains leads to catastrophic change. Sadly, the offspring of this profound transition turns out not to be a sign of hope, but the spitting image of the parents. | | goo.gl/FqUbhw

Wolves by Alvaro Rodriguez Areny – Rating: PG

Andorra – Runtime 11:50 – Rating: PG | Director – Alvaro Rodriguez Areny | Writer – Alvaro Rodriguez Areny | Key Cast – Isak Férriz | | World War II. Arthur, British Royal Air Force pilot, flees cross-country after his plane crashes. He begins a fight for survival in which he will encounter more than German enemies. | | goo.gl/GVsM7F

Sanctioned by Harry Ayiotis – Rating: PG

Cyprus – Runtime 17:51 – Rating: PG | Director – Harry Ayiotis | Writer – Harry Ayiotis | Key Cast – Andreas Tselepos, Antonis Katsaris, Marios Mettis, Nadia Mowafy | | In a dystopian future, it is legal to murder someone providing you have legally applied to the Ministry of Sanctioned Homicide to be given legal authorization to do so. Elias visits the Ministry to apply to kill one of his parents. | | goo.gl/4QGvrX

Absorbed by Dimitris Armenakis – Rating: PG

Greece – Runtime 08:27 – Rating: PG | Director – Dimitris Armenakis | Writer – Dimitris Armenakis | | A man is leaded to a mysterious house. As he follows the signs given, he is making a journey of no return. | | goo.gl/mX6hpW

Hada by Tony Morales – Rating: R

Spain – Runtime 09:00 – Rating: R | Director – Tony Morales | Writer – Tony Morales | Key Cast – Eva Isanta, Fernando Boza, Michel Hérraiz, Silvia Casanova | | Tonight, Hada comes to visit Daniel because her last child tooth as fallen out. What Daniel doesn´t expect is that his worst enemy is the light. | | goo.gl/Cnzr2U

Murder Springs: Chapter One by Adam Van Dyke – Rating: R

The Dark Hunger by Anthony Williams – Rating: R

United States – Runtime 15:00 – Rating: R | Director – Anthony Williams | Writer – Anthony Williams | Key Cast – John Crosthwaite, Nicholas J. Harden | | They took away his memory and his life, but gave him something worse in death. Now he must embrace the monster he’s become to regain his humanity. | | goo.gl/Ta6E1W

Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir by David Maire – Rating: R

United States – Runtime 13:10 – Rating: R | Director – David E. Munz-Maire | Writer – David E. Munz-Maire | Key Cast – Michael Lorz, Sean Weil, Anthony del Negro, Nancy Nagrant, Pooya Mohensi | | ‘Chateau Sauvignon: terroir’ follows the isolated adolescent son of a storied vintner family who finds himself torn between obeying his father’s callous restrictions and preventing his ailing mother from deteriorating further. When a doting woman and her indifferent son arrive seeking a tasting and tour of the winery, Nicolas sees an opportunity to help care for his mother, as well as prove his worth to his choleric father. However, his wayward plan quickly takes a turn for the worse, and his missteps puts his family’s secretive murderous ways in peril of being unearthed. | | goo.gl/3HQLZ8

Munchies by Sinead Stoddart – Rating: R

United Kingdom – Runtime 02:21 – Rating: R | Director – Sinead Stoddart | Writer – Sinead Stoddart | | Zombie Lee has an outrageous hunger that won’t be silenced by food alone. With his growing need to feed increasing, misjudgment and disaster arise in the kitchen, until a simple solution is found. And his rumbling is quenched. | | goo.gl/AvGXsm

A Father’s Day by Chris Lane – Rating: R

United Kingdom – Runtime 09:53 – Rating: R | Director – Mat Johns | Writer – Mat Johns | Key Cast – Garth Maunders, Hazel Gibson | | Today is special. Apocalypse or not. Unexpectedly reunited with his daughter amongst the ruins of the world as they knew it, a father is determined to make this day special, even if they are already dead. | | goo.gl/EmEc3P

The CCC16 Film Festival Winner – Best local production – Saturday (13:00 – 13:15)

Y.K.AN. by Andreas Sheittanis – Rating: PG

Cyprus – Runtime 14:56 – Rating: PG | Director – Andreas Sheittanis | Writer – Andreas Sheittanis | Key Cast – Constantinos Tsiolis, Sofoclis Kaskaounias, Demetris Kafataris, George Anagiotos, Charis Aristidou, Violeta Lorens, Loucas Louca | | A group of some rather mediocre superheroes, attempt to defeat a sort of evil villain. | | http://www.andreasfilms.com/

*Rating Explanations:

G: General Audience, Suitable for all

PG: Parental Guidance, some scenes may not be suitable for young children

R: Restricted, not suitable for kids under 16, strong language or visuals

Artist Profile: LarLarLar Comics

28/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes the team of LarLarLar Comics to this year’s Artists’ Alley!

The LarLarLar Comics team consists of:

Andreas Michaelides

Andreas’ greatest love is words – what they mean, what they portray, how they change, how they are translated, what story they are telling. He has worked as a journalist and photographer, and has written crime and surreal short stories that were published in collective volumes (Είσοδος Κινδύνου, Ελληνικά Εγκλήματα 4, Κλέφτες και Αστυνόμοι etc.) or in newspapers (Metropolis, Σύγχρονα Αθηναϊκά Παραμύθια etc.). For the last decade, he has been working as a translator for publishers such as Alexandria and Metaixmio, and since 2010, he has been working with oral narrative and writing tales for adults.

His relationship with comics is just as complex as he is: from 2001 to 2007, he was an article writer for magazine “9” of Εleftherotypia. From 2003 to 2006 he released the fanzine Mangaijin together with Yiannis Dalkides. In 2005 he joined the COMICDOM team, writing articles for their website and participating in the organisation process of Comicdom Con Athens, which he continues to do to this day. Between 2014 and 2015, he collaborated with Maria Kouloumparitsi for the self-published comic titled Botch!. In 2014 he began collaborating with Valia Kapadai on a series of self-published works on Greek mythology (Νέκυια, Μυθρύλοι). In 2015 he started collaborating with Pavlos Pavlides, on the sci-fi comic titled Last Flight of the Swordbreaker. As a translator, he has translated books of popular science, history and literature, from English and French, including The Adventures of Young Sherlock Holmes by Andy Lane, The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Tuf Voyaging, by George R.R. Martin, and Joe Abercrombie’s Shattered Sea.

So far he has written three books: The fantasy novel “Το Αμόνι που Τραγουδά” (Mamaya Publications) and two noir horror novels in the series “Ο Εθισμός του Κριστιάν Αμπρόζ” (Nightread Publications). He is a founding member of the Greek Writers’ Association of Police Literature and of Στέ.Π.Πα (Στέγη Προφορικότητας και Παράδοσης «Μυθολόγιο»). To sum it up, he is basically a storyteller, buried in a cave made entirely out of books!

To see more from LarLarLar Comics, visit their blog as well as their page on Facebook!

Valia Kapadai

Valia is first and foremost a dreamer and a comic book “junkie”. During the day, she works as a graphic designer at the National Academy of Fine Arts (ΕΚΠΑ), while at night she likes to play with her watercolours and inks, making comics, at least when her “ghosts” allow it. She has participated in several anthologies (for publications of IDW, Insomnia, Accent UK, BLC, Dapshow Press, AyeSaw Comics, Markosia, ICCW, Ekdoseis tou Kampou, Parousia etc.) and until this day, 6 graphic novels have been published that contain her illustrations or colouring, by the publishing houses of A.R.Sobati, Photorama, Markosia, and Comicdom Press, one of which, soon, is expected to be released on the big screen as well. She also enjoys self-publishing her own stories. Since 2007, she has participated in several exhibitions (both solo and group ones), as well as several comic book events, both in Greece and abroad. She is a co-creator and active member of the artist collective LarLarLar Comics. In the last year, she has been working on the illustrations for a board game, as well as a theatrical play.

Pavlos Pavlides

Pavlos is a new comic book creator that first revealed his work as part of the Comicdom Athens event in 2009. He started drawing comics much earlier than that, with the comics from the American underground scene as his primary influence. His favourite tool is a pentel pen brush, which he considers more of an extension of his own arm and he uses it to bring his black and white fantasy worlds into life. The has self-published the titles Unstrung! , Fixed! , Such a waste..! , Full Bloom, Just one fragment , ..and after this What, as well as Lamda Together with Valia Kapadai and Lee Grice. He is currently working on various projects of his own, as well as collaborations. He has been working with the LarLarLar Comics team since 2014, on self-publications of various genres and themes, such as mythology (Νέκυια), science fiction (Last Flight of the Swordbreaker), historical fantasy (Iasis) and others, while they also work on other projects, helping each other whenever possible.

Artist Profile: Opaque Happiness

27/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes talented illustrator Christiana Efthimiou, also known as Opaque Happiness, to its Artists’ Alley!

Christiana Efthimiou is a 21 year old self-taught artist born and raised in Limassol, Cyprus, who makes digital art. Her drawings usually have a sad, melancholic, dark, bittersweet or calming theme featuring pale characters with tired eyes and sometimes she likes to draw birds and flowers as well, because she finds them very pretty. Her main inspiration to draw is the music she listens to, which fits with her drawing themes, but sometimes inspiration can strike out of nowhere. Artists who have inspired her greatly are the works of Obsolete World and Adam Tan.

In the past Christiana used to draw a lot of digital anime/manga-related art and monster/kaiju designs but then slowly switched to her own style with colored pencils. It was around last year that she switched back to using digital art again and started to develop her style through it. Her future goals are to become a better artist and create more works that people can identify with, illustrate and publish her very own storybooks! Oh and own a pet parrot!

Visit Christiana’s page on Facebook for more images of her work.

Artist Profile: Nasia Decomposed

25/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Our next Featured Artist is Nasia Decomposed!

Decomposition is the name of the portfolio freelance artist Nasia Stylidou started to make since 2013 and it consists of mainly dotting and lining techniques. She has been primarily working with musical groups for T-shirt designs, album covers, logos etc. Furthermore, she has been collaborating with tattoo artists for commission designs. Nasia has also been a participant at Comicdom Con Athens for 4 years in a row and has self-published four fanzines. She is currently finishing her architecture studies in Volos. She is a self-taught designer and illustrator and she loves occult and metal backgrounds.

Visit Nasia’s art blog to see more images of her work! (Warning: contains explicit material – 18+)

Special Guest: Miltos Yerolemou

25/08/2017 by Cyprus Comic Con

Cyprus Comic Con has the honour of announcing the return of Game of Thrones’ actor Miltos Yerolemou, as our Special Guest for CCC17!

Miltos is a critically acclaimed, Shakespearean trained actor, best known for his seminal appearance as Syrio Forel, First Sword of Braavos, in HBO’s global hit TV show Game of Thrones. He is British-Cypriot in descent and his family live in the village of Ayios Theodoros.

Miltos has an impressive list of theatre credits to his name, as well as a number of television appearances, most notable the British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, Black Books and My Family.

Other big-screen credits include The Danish Girl (2015), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Murder on the Orient Express (2017), due to be released this November.

Water Dancing Lessons

Step into the shoes of young Arya Stark and train in the Braavosi sword art of the Water Dance, at two exclusive Water Dancing classes taught by Miltos Yerolemou on Saturday 2nd of September, in Hall B (Section B)!

Both classes are limited to just 30 people per class and have an attendance fee of €25.00 per person as well as include a signed certificate of attendance and selfies with Syrio Forel himself!

To secure your slot, you need to pre-purchase your ticket using PayPal or credit card and print out the e-ticket receipt or save it on your phone as proof of purchase. You will be asked to show your e-ticket receipt when you arrive.

Class 1: 17:00 -18:00

Class 2: 18:30 – 19:30

Reserve your spot now!

As Syrio Forel – Game of Thrones’ Water Dancing Master

Miltos first major role on TV was portraying the character of Syrio Forel in the first season of Game of Thrones, master of the Braavosi sword art of the Water Dance, who mentored the young Arya Stark in sword-fighting. Syrio received a lot of love from fans of the series and some of his quotes still remain as some of the most memorable, including the fan-favourite:

Syrio Forel: What do we say to the god of Death?
Arya Stark: Not today.

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