Symi Film News
Let’s start off the week with some film news. For anyone who has not already heard, the film that was shot on Symi in 2013, called ‘The 13th‘ will be shown as part of this year’s Symi Festival on Sunday 23rd July, at the sports centre in Yialos. Exact location within the complex and the exact time are yet to be announced. The event will be free, as all parts of the festival are. Here is the current version of the film poster. (It doesn’t read so well on screen, but apparently looks fine in real life.)
As you can see it carries a few laurels already. These are not always for awards. For some film festivals, just being selected is award enough to warrant a laurel. Which brings me on to the next piece of film news. The Symi International Film Festival. This is a new festival that’s being or has been set up by those who have been organising the Symi cinema and other events for some time now. All I know about it is, it should also be able to award laurels, and it is due to be held for the first time his year. It will become part of the Symi Festival too, so I am told. I was also told that it will be held between 18th and 22nd September, but there has been no official announcement made yet, that I know of.
Now then, here’s the thing. A few people have already asked me if there can be another showing of ‘The 13th‘ later in the summer when they are here on holiday. It doesn’t work like that. Although I wrote the screenplay, worked as an associate producer (which means you do a lot of work for no payment) and although Neil did the same and is also an associate producer, the film has nothing to do with us. We don’t own it, and we can’t say when or how it will be shown. All we can do now is support it. So, we are unable to whip it out of the can and put it up on a screen whenever we want to. If we did that publicly, we would be pirating it. It belongs to 1066 Productions and is their product. Where and when it gets shown is up to them, not me, even though I co-wrote it. If you are unable to see it in the Symi Festival, you will have to wait until it is shown again somewhere else. Where and when this might happen is out of my hands. The whole thing is out of my hands now. Backers should have been able to see it already as part of their perks from the Kickstarter programme, and if you’ve still not been able to do this, you need to contact 1066 Productions rather than me. I shouldn’t even be watching it at home without having first bought a copy. When that might be possible is also out of my hands.
I can, though, get a plug in here. If you want to know what the story is based on, then you can read the novel version of the original first-draft screenplay by buying a paperback or Kindle copy from Amazon, as regular readers will already know. Here’s the link. The Judas Inheritance.
Remember though, films are very different to books. And on that note, I will leave the film world and tomorrow, will return you to Symi.
