Greek Island of Evia, Which Hosted ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Shoot, Placed in Locations Spotlight
variety.comTara Karajica Evia Film Project, Thessaloniki Film Festival’s green initiative forged in the aftermath of the calamitous wildfires on the Greek island of Evia in 2021, focused primarily on location scouting this year. “It was the most important action of this project because it’s about the future and this is the most important thing.
How can we leave a trace here? And a trace will be a movie, a TV series, a documentary…,” says Thessaloniki Film Festival topper Orestis Andreadakis.
Two Fam Trips – familiarization tours of locations – a town walk and a masterclass were organized for the location scouts and managers, and other film professionals attending the event.
The Fam Trips aimed to give prominence to the physiognomy of Northern Evia and highlight locations in the municipalities of Istiea Edipsos and Mantoudi-Limni-Agia Anna, while the walk around the town of Loutra Edipsos showcased empty buildings, beaches, thermal baths and other hidden treasures. “The island of Northern Evia has a variety of physical locations such as mines, lakes, beaches with an apocalyptic, dystopian background, but also buildings and mansions from the 1800s, such as the Candili Estate, that can double for U.K.
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