Final Shooting

FINAL SHOOTING

 

Thriller

Duration: 80’

Actors: Nikolas Piperas (Cameraman), Romina Katsikian (Sandra, the leading actress), Paola King-Borrero (Jenny, the assistant director), Marc Blake (Chris, the producer), Giannis Georgoulis (assistant cameraman), Costis Malkotsis (editor), Savvas Mavrikidis (director), Maria Carras (Kate), Melina Lee Son (make up artist)

Original Score: George Golegos

Editing: Periclis Eliou

Cinematography: Vassilis Karountzos, Andreas Margiolas

Written, directed and produced by Stella Belessi

New Year’s Eve. In a European country. Scourged by the financial crisis. A country, where, besides their personal issues, people are afraid of losing their underpaid jobs. A country, where everyone can be placed in the Black List. The producer, the leading actress, the cameraman and the assistant director of a T.V. series are closed by accident in the studio. There is no way of communication with the outer world. The are going to get out of there  on January the 3^rd when the studio will open again. The producer is the first to be murdered. The invisible murderer isn’t going to stop until he kills everyone……….

“The world is a dangerous place to live in, don’t you think?” asks Jenny, the assistant director who recently broke up  from her boy- friend she intended to get married. “It’s not only the break up. It’s this feeling. This void. There’s no future. There’s no future because  some people sequestered all the other people in a strange and invisible prison. And they are exterminating them. In every way.

Without consideration, without pity, without shame
they have built great and high walls around me.

And now I sit here and despair.
I think of nothing else: this fate gnaws at my mind;

for I had many things to do outside.
Ah why did I not pay attention when they were building the walls.

But I never heard any noise or sound of builders.
Imperceptibly they shut me from the outside world.

C. P. Cavafy  “ WALLS”(1896)

“Is it possible not to hear or see anything?”asks the cameraman the assistant director. “Did you hear or see anything? she answers. No one heard of anything. No one saw anything. And the sequestered people, why they  don’t react? Why they don’t  break the door? Why they are passively waiting for their murderer?