Podcast Series
Epirus is a historical and geographical region in North Western Greece. A spectacular European secret of natural beauty, storied history and stoic people. Follow me as I venture through this land that has, for so long, been mostly hidden from the rest of the world.
This is my love letter to a region that has stolen my heart, a document of its people and their passions, their pride in the community, and their hopes for the future. But more than that, it is also a journey of self-discovery, as I get to know a place, I hope to one day call home.
This is Epirus Falls – the first English podcast series available for the region, distributed on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Samsung Podcasts.
Host: Andreas Dermanis
Producers: Andreas Dermanis. Severine Penin, Adam Goodall
Video + Photography: Adam Goodall
Drone: Andreas Dermanis + Adam Goodall
Music: Panos Skoufis
Additional Music Production: Panos Papakostas, Alex Christopher
Sound Recording Ioannina: Noisyland Studios
Voiceover Recording: Panos Skoufis, Francesco Felcini
Sound Mix: Aris Athanasopoulos/ Panos Papakostas
GFX: Kayleigh Ariens
19 X 20 mins
Promo, 5 mins
Two films shot for internal purposes for the Hellenic Armed Forces whilst enrolled in military service at the Kasimitrou base in Epirus, Northern Greece.
The first video detailed the layout of the base, each building and the available facilities. The second video documented a day in the life of troops, used to explain to new arrivals how the barracks function and what to expect when beginning their service.
Director/ Editor: Andreas Dermanis
Producers: Andreas Dermanis, Dimitris Xatizpanagiotou
1X C300 Mark II, DJ Mini 2
2X Promo, 5 mins
TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | PRISHTINA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Documentary, 47mins
Andi Ngjela, who was baptised as Nikos Gelia when he came to Greece, is very different today from the days of his childhood in Albania. He is considered one of the most talented actors of his generation, who starred in the film "Xenia" by Panos Koutras, one of the most important films of modern Greek cinema.
Nikos Gelia was born in Albania in the early 1990s in a turbulent period for the neighboring country. At a young age he migrated with his parents to Greece. How was it for a child to look for his "identity" in a country that was not particularly welcoming at that time for immigrants from Albania? The story of Nikos, the boy once called Andi, is identical to the stories of all those people who, due to their circumstances, were forced to grow up without a sense of "national identity.” The documentary questions whether our "identity" is something to be attributed to us or whether it is something we build for ourselves.
We followed Nikos on a trip back to Albania, where he faces his past and his roots and for a while becomes Andi again.
Director / Producer: Andreas Dermanis
Director of Photography: Jonathan Dibley
Producer (Albania): Ilias Madouros
Associate Producer: Severine Penin
Editor: Giorgia Bembelou
Edit Assistant: Vanessa Zeri
Edit Assistant: Giorgos Kolios
Sound/ Sound Design: Aris Athanasopoulos
Color Correction: Ilias Panaritis
Production Assistant: Alexandros Stigkas
Original Music: Luke Smith
Music: The Dandy Warhols
Production Company: Vice Greece
2X Canon C300
Documentary/ Performance, 95 mins
Writer, Producer and Supervising Editor for ‘I Love Beirut’, a mix of documentary, music performance and readings from artists including Mika, Salma Hayek, Rufus Wainwright, Mashrou Leila, Danna Paola, Kylie Minogue and more, in response to the explosion which devastated the Lebanese capital on August 4th 2020.
Originally streamed on YouTube with all proceeds from ticket sales going to the Lebanese Red Cross and Save the Children, ‘I Love Beirut’ was later reversioned for Canadian, Italian, French and Lebanese television.
Producers: MIKA, Annalisa Leo, Andreas Dermanis
Written By: MIKA, Andreas Dermanis, Anouk Burel, Severine Penin
Musical Director: Tim Van Der Kuil
Sound Recording & Mixing Engineer: Massimo Barbieri, Eric Spring
Director (Florence): Leonardo Cianci
Director of Photography: Massimo Costanzi
Technical Director: William Moretti
Supervising Editor: Andreas Dermanis
Story Editor: Severine Penin
Additional Editors: Stefano Mazzoni, Nicola Spaccucci
GFX: Yarza Twins, Yasmine Penniman, Alex Hutchinson
Supervising Sound Editor: Aris Athanasopoulos
Production Companies: Dodgy Holiday, SkyItalia, France 2
Documentary, 27mins
Not only has the Greek economic crisis made life much more difficult in Greece, but it's also made dealing with the death of a loved one nearly impossible, causing an entirely separate burden from dealing with the initial loss.
With a limited amount of space in traditional burial grounds, an aversion to cremation due to the region's dominant Christian Orthodox faith, not to mention the exorbitantly high cemetery fees, families are forced to look for more economic alternatives to burial, like donating bodies to scientific institutions.
In this episode of VICE INTL, VICE Greece investigates the country's lucrative death business, noting the high cost of death and the different ways the industry is developing.
Shooting Director: Andreas Dermanis
Producer: Mohammed Ben Gkouzi
Presenter: Antonis Diniakos
Camera: Theodoris Konstantinos
Editor: Spyros Kokkas
Assistant Editor: Andreas Dermanis
Production Company: Vice Greece
1X Canon C300, 1X Canon C100
MOVIEMENT ATHENS | HOFKINO BERLIN | AL-RIWAQ GALLERY BAHRAIN | SHASHAMOVIES
Documentary, 56 mins
Filmed over a period of six months from the Greek-Turkish border to Athens and the Serbian border town of Sid, ‘Lost Youth’ captures the complex world of a group of young Afghan men who arrive in Europe chasing a western dream.
In Athens they must choose between enrolling in the asylum program or continuing their journey north of the border to more affluent EU nations. Paralysed by the enormity of the difficulties they face, the men soon find themselves losing sight of their dream and risk becoming part of the city’s underworld.
Director: Andreas Dermanis
Producer: Andreas Dermanis
Supervising Sound Editor: Aris Athanasopoulos
Original Music: Ben Vince
Cinematography: Andreas Dermanis
Editor: Andreas Dermanis
Sync Editor: Niki Malliotaki
Consultant Producer: Severine Penin
Translator: Qais Alamdar
Translator: Tamim Yousefi
Interview: Anouk Burel
Sound Recordist: Aris Athanasopoulos
Sound Recordist: Pan Papagiannopoulos
Sound Recordist (Serbia): Danilo Crnogorac
Production Assistant (Serbia): Marko Zivkovic
Post Production: Green Rock
Colour Grade: Sarina McCavana
Visual Effects: Matt Birch
Online: The Ark
Equipment Rental: RentPhotoVideo
Production Company: Odelay Productions
Funded by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
1X C300 Mark II
Documentary, Cinema
Performance/ Documentary, 48mins
Mika marked Pride Month this year with a special live-streamed concert in partnership with Indeed. The performance was streamed on his YouTube channel with proceeds going to Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.
Producers: MIKA & Annalisa Leo for Dodgy Holiday
Artistic Director: MIKA
Director: Luigi Antonini
Director of Photography: Ivan Pierri
Musical Director: Tim Van Der Kuil
Sound Recording & Mixing Engineer: Massimo Barbieri
Backstage Photography: Danilo D’Auria
Post Production: Soulmovie
Editors: Giuliano Abbate, Alessandro De Mariassevich
Supervising Editor: Andreas Dermanis
Supervising Sound Designer: Aris Athanasopoulos
Executive Producer: Dusty Bennett
GFX: Mike Grau
Production Company: Dodgy Holiday
Interview/ Performance, 30mins
The Kooks performed songs from their latest album 'Listen' at Bermondsey's Music Bank as part of MTV's 'Live Vibrations' series.
Vintage CRT monitors were placed on set and fed a mixture of graphics and live shots by placing X4 robo cameras around the band. The system was fully analogue and the signal distributed via an image pro scaler.
Director: Andreas Dermanis
Producer: Jess Eldridge
Director of Photography: Kelvin Richard
Editor: Andreas Dermanis
Production Company: MTV, 3DD Productions
3X C300, JIB
Live Performance, 23 mins
Interview/ BTS, 80mins
Made In the A.M. is the fifth and final studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction, released on 13 November 2015, by Columbia Records and Syco Music. This album is also the group's first album following the departure of Zayn Malik, who left the group on March 25, 2015 and the group's last album before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
The album was released alongside a 90 minute film which featured interviews with each of the band members, a track by track commentary of the new music and unseen documentary footage.
The band teased listeners by releasing a song a day online and then held screenings of the film in cinemas worldwide on the day the album was released.
Producer/ Editor: Andreas Dermanis
Production Company: Odelay/ Sony Music
It is often forgotten that democracy in Ancient Athens was not an instrument for equality but rather one of exclusion. Voting and the associated privileges were reserved for a fraction of the ancient city’s inhabitants; no rights or assistance were provided to those Athenians who had fallen on hard times and were indebted to the state or to the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and slaves that made up the bulk of the population. Today in the once impressive Omonoia or ‘Unity’ Square, we see that as the buildings and fabric of the city fall further into disrepair, this ancient theme of the state excluding the dispossessed remains as strong as ever.
Omonoia was historically a key meeting place within the city that had a magnetism that drew people to it, especially those new to Athens. As the area has fallen into disrepute and disrepair, Greeks now tend to gather two kilometres away in Syntagama and leave Omonoia for the drug addicts and prostitutes to roam at night. During the day, the lifeless rings of Zongolopous’ Pentaklikon sculpture tower over an ever-dwindling community of South Asian migrant workers. Indeed, the only ‘unity’ that now exists in this square is that of the camaraderie amongst these modern day ‘slaves’ who gather here often just to stare into space, waiting for something to happen or in the hope that an opportunity may come their way.
Director: Andreas Dermanis
Editor: Thanasis Totsikas
Performance/ Interview, 25mins
Courtney Barnett checked into Radio 1 to play a session at their Maida Vale studios.
Alongside an interview with Annie Mac, the Australian songwriter also showcased three tracks from her debut album ‘ Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’. Courtney played ‘Pedestrian At Best’, ‘Dead Fox’ and the jetlag-humming ‘An Illustration Of Loneliness’.
Director: Andreas Dermanis
Producer: Andreas Dermanis
Editor: Sian Fever
Director of Photography: Kelvin Richard
Camera: Jon Dibley
Production Company: TBI Media
Documentary/ Performance, 30mins
The Shins: 360 Sessions - A unique music series driven entirely by the artists and filmed in major cities around the world including New York, LA, London, Cardiff and Copenhagen. This episode features James Mercer and his band as they perform songs from the latest Shins album ‘Port of Morrow’ as well as giving us a tour of Portland, Oregon.
Directors: Andreas Dermanis & Adam Goodall
Producer: Jess Eldridge
Director of Photography: Birk Webb
Editor: Jamie Tucker
Post Production: Green Rock
Production Company: 3DD Productions
5X Canon 7D Mark I
