Memoir of a Veering Storm
TITLE
Memoir of a Veering Storm
DIRECTOR
Sofia Georgovassili
COUNTRY
Greece
YEAR
2022
DURATION
14′
GENRE
Fiction
Memoir of a Veering Storm
It is a morning in September. A storm is about to break. Α mother drives a girl to school in the morning and picks up a woman at the end of the school day. Anna, a fifteen-year-old girl sneaks out of school, and with the help of her boyfriend, they visit a hospital. There, she has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Sofia Georgovassili
Sofia Georgovassili is an awarded actress and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. She is an Artworks fellow, 2020. Her lead part in Mavro Livadi by Vardis Marinakis, won her the best actress award at Seville European FF and Variety named her performance ‘remarkable as a first time thesp”. She is the supporting actress in Christos Nikou ‘Apples’ the Greek nomination for Oscars 2021. The movie opened Orizzonti section at Venice IFF 2020. Her first short film as a director, Preparation, had its world premiere in the section Short Cuts at Toronto International Film Festival, 2017. She travelled to many festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. Human condition and coming-of-age ground are at the heart of her films. She is now at the pre-production of her first feature film under the title Mignon, a trilateral co-production between Greece, Romania and France and for which she won ARTEKino International Prize at CineLink - Sarajevo FF. Mignon is also a Cinereach grantee, 2020.
- Director Sofia Georgovassili
- Screenplay Sofia Georgovassili
- Cinematography Tudor Pandurus
- Editing Giorgos Zafeiris
- Cast Daphne Peel, Maria Kallimani, Konstantinos Sideris, Stefania Sotiropoulou, Nikos Hatzopoulos, Elena Mengreli
- Producer/s Stelios Cotionis, Sofia Georgovassili
- Production Company Foss Productions
- Distributor/s Lights On
- Project Title Memoir of a Veering Storm
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date January 1, 2022
- Country of origin Greece
- Country of filming Greece
- Language Greek
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Sofia Georgovassili
Sofia Georgovassili is an awarded actress and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. She is an Artworks fellow, 2020. Her lead part in Mavro Livadi by Vardis Marinakis, won her the best actress award at Seville European FF and Variety named her performance ‘remarkable as a first time thesp”. She is the supporting actress in Christos Nikou ‘Apples’ the Greek nomination for Oscars 2021. The movie opened Orizzonti section at Venice IFF 2020. Her first short film as a director, Preparation, had its world premiere in the section Short Cuts at Toronto International Film Festival, 2017. She travelled to many festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. Human condition and coming-of-age ground are at the heart of her films. She is now at the pre-production of her first feature film under the title Mignon, a trilateral co-production between Greece, Romania and France and for which she won ARTEKino International Prize at CineLink - Sarajevo FF. Mignon is also a Cinereach grantee, 2020.
Berlinale Film Festival
Nominee for Crystal Bear, 2022
Tirana International Film Festival
Best Balkan Short Film, 2022
