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Mother Company

a docu-fiction short film

by Alexander Raptotasios &. Konstantinos Thomaidis​

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Aesthetica Film Festival (UK), BEST ARTIST FILM AWARD​

Poff Shorts - Black Nights Film Festival

Art Speaks Out - Enviromental Initiative 

Berlin Indie Film Festival, BEST NEW DIRECTOR & EDITING AWARD

Petit Plan Europa (GR)

Athens Digital International Film Festival

Tromso International Film Festival

Two Short Nights Festival (UK)

KINO Athens Film Festival

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Blending verbatim performance and choral music, Mother Company follows a children’s choir amidst an abandoned power plant in Northern Greece, role-playing as generations of workers of this de-industrialised area. A chorus of young voices reflects on environmental catastrophe, public health and economic depravation while a ‘Green Future’ is promised to save them.​

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CREDITS

Directors: Alexander Raptotasios & Konstantinos Thomaidis
Sound Design: Jeph Vagner
Editing: Christos Giannakopoulos, Vassilis Zervos
Choral Music: Konstantinos Thomaidis
Research Advisor (Social Policy): Vassiliki Aga
Production Supervisor: Panagiotis Demos
Special Collaborator: Kosmas Kotsi
First camera operator: Vassilis Zervos
Second camera operator: Alexandros Soumas
Third camera operator: Elena Peppa
Production manager: Yannis Hadjigeorgiou
Production assistant: Fanis Ganis
First sound engineer – Boom: Panagiotis Paraskevas
Second sound engineer: Zisis Sapnaras
DoP Second Unit: Thanos Tsigas
Drone operators: Alexios Kasnakis, Asteris Gaitanis
Performed by: The Children’s Choir of the Varvoution Municipal Conservatory of Ptolemaida (conductor, Nicole Papazoglou, artistic director: Lazaros Tsavdaridis).
Produced by: Ferodo Bridges