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Season 13: The Koubares Season
After 12 incredible years on live radio on Agape Greek Radio, Dora & Irene are finally answering the call. By popular demand, the Doralicious Show is making its debut as a podcast. Season 13 celebrates the next chapter of this iconic duo: the Koubares Season. Sharp wit, bold opinions, cultural talks, and heartfelt moments that made listeners fall in love over the years. Dora and Irene bring their signature koubares chemistry to every episode, with stories, laughs, and candid conversations with exciting guests.
Get ready: 12 years in the making, and this is the season that changes everything.
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Season 13 - Episode 26, Sherif Francis on "Last Call"
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From the festival circuit to the dining room, this week is all about storytelling and the curation of modern hospitality.
First, we sit down with visionary director Sherif Francis ahead of the Toronto stop for the Greek International Film Festival Tour of Canada (GIFFT). He joins us to unpack his feature directorial debut, Last Call—diving into the creative hustle behind the lens, the jump to feature-length cinema, and bringing his vision to the Canadian audience.
Then, your favourite koubares, Dora and Irene, take the mic for an editorial look at modern lifestyle. We’re dissecting the lost art of entertaining at home. In an era dominated by restaurant culture and effortless outsourcing, has the romance of the intimate dinner party completely faded? Or is the effortlessly curated home gathering ready for a sophisticated revival?
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Α κουμπάρα μου. Γεια σα ⁇ όλου, για κουμπάρα. Τι μα ⁇ κάνετε πώ είστε, πώ ⁇ περνάτε, καλοκαιριά και νομίζω ακούγεται και στη διάθεσή μα, the way we speak about life.
SPEAKER_01Ναι, πρέπει να σα βάλουμε ένα από τα παλιά τα βίντεο, τα παλιά στα show μέσα στο Γενάρη, μέσα στο Φεβράει. Για τι κάνετε. Οκ, οκ, περίπτωμα, περιβάλλον. Είχαμε την ίδια. Διά είχαμε το χαμόγελο μέχρι που τα φτιά. Τι κάνετε πω είστε που θα πάτε φετά στο καλοκαίρι, τι γίνεται. Όχι, όχι.
SPEAKER_05Είναι seasonal, πώ έχουμε seasonal allergies, εμεί έχουμε seasonal happiness.
SPEAKER_01Είναι πραγματικό. Και το πρόσκλημα να προσπαθούμε και πέρα να ανεβάσουμε τον κόσμο, το καλοκαίρι είναι πιο εύκολο, παιδί μου.
SPEAKER_05So we can feel good throughout the winter. Γιατί κάνουμε κοινωνικό λειτουργεί, Μαϊρίνη. You get to walk out and you explore your own city sometimes. Like, for example, I hadn't gone to the distillery district in Toronto for so long. And I went and it was beautiful. Και δεν ένα παγκόσμια γέλια που χωρεύαν. Η δικάσα από το κύριο καφεδάκι έτσι προϊόνουμε σιμιράκι, είναι ό,τι πρέπει. Και ήταν και ένα που είχα καιρό να το δώ, είχε βάλει ένα κύριο στο τραπεζάκι του και έκανε magic. Μα τα χαρτιά το ένα το άλλο.
SPEAKER_01Είναι για να βγουμε έξω, παιδί μου αυτό ο κερό μου και κάθε σα πει την παιδιά. Βγγείτε. Μόνο για ένα περπάτημα, μόνο για μια βόλτα. Δεν χρειάζεται. Δηλαδή. Δεν είναι να πατήσει σε ένα ρεύμα σε ένα πάτο. Μόνο για ένα περπάτημα να πα ⁇ εκεί. Αλλάζει όλη σου η διάθεση.
SPEAKER_05Αλλά don't be like στον είχαμε βάλει περπάτημα και λέει πόσο περπατήσουμε, γιατί ούτε 10.000 βήματα δεν είχαμε κάνει.
SPEAKER_01Τώρα περίμενε για κάποιον που δεν περπατάει 10.000 δμήματα είναι πολλά.
SPEAKER_05Νομίζω έχει να κάνει και αυτό. Έχει να κάνει. Γιατί εμεί περπατάμε τώρα, νομίζω after COVID, COVID made us the walkers.
SPEAKER_01Συμφωνώ και όταν ανοίγει ο καιρό ⁇ το κάνουμε, βγαίνουμε. Εγώ α πούμε, δεν χρησιμοποιεί τα μάτια μου είμαι στην εβδομάδα καθόλου.
SPEAKER_05I walk. I walk to the supermarket να μου πει πόσα πέρα δεν πήρα πολλά πράγματα. But that's what I mean. Είμαστε δώμα δεν χρειάζεται να πάρω να πάω στο κόσκο, να πάρω κουτιά ολόκληρα. Πήρα ένα cucumber, μια πυπερά, δηλαδή.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Excuses. I found excuses every day to go out and walk. Excuses.
SPEAKER_05And it's worth it. I'm gonna start doing that at work. Because I get I find I work on Bay Street and we're always sitting down, or like, I don't leave the office sometimes. I'm like, no.
SPEAKER_01You should find excuses. Just find excuses. But you know, if you do three 20-minute walks every day, that's 10,000 βήματα και πέρα.
SPEAKER_05It's okay. It's okay. Exactly. It is fine. So you know how sometimes like I love reading the Greek news, just see what's going on. They arrested a man who was wanted for murder in Australia in 1999. I saw that.
SPEAKER_01And he was using a different name, he had changed like everything, uh, identity. Wow. And you know, what a better place to hide than Greece?
SPEAKER_05Nah, then he can do credit cards, then he can use the tape, yes. It's gonna be like I think we should do it before everyone else. Let's start writing about it. We'll talk about a murder in Canada and how someone goes to the Horyo and then he gets arrested 30 years later. Hypothetically speaking. Okay, actually, let me go back. So I would keep reading some Instagram posts. Oh, they're replacing mother and father. I'm like, what the heck are they talking about? In New York this, oh, the Democrats have gone too far. And I'm like, okay, I need to investigate. This is not what I'm reading. So I go in and I start I went to the Washington Times and it says that in New York there's custody laws. The legislation used the word mother and father. Absolutely. For that reason, the titles meant just eating parents and non-just eating parents. I'm like, I so this is what I was thinking. Like, I I don't necessarily agree with a change of the legislation, but I also don't agree with the way it was publicized. Oh, they're changing everything. It was just a very discrete law that was being changed, not everything. So do they have to change this for every case? No, it's just one legislation. Okay. And it's just one nomophesia forecasty that it's going to be changed in terms of the terms. And a lot of the lawyers were saying, well, we're already not using those terms because it has been so difficult with same-sex marriages and um but they have to adapt, like they have to adapt.
SPEAKER_01We accept these uh families, we accept this uh these ways of you know having a kid. So mother and father when it's not a mother and father. I think we have to adapt, we have to change at all. Alex, they didn't polyperi o to post.
SPEAKER_05And I was like, I understand why some people can be upset. I get it. Change is not for everyone either. But this misinformation, and then people keep reposting it, and like people repost and have no idea what they're talking about.
SPEAKER_01They don't have the time to read and think. They just, oh yeah, I'm mad about that too. Let me repost because this guy said it.
SPEAKER_05Let's get mad about the everything like that use your critical thinking. Like then it's took me like less than five minutes to Google exactly what happened, read the article. I'm like, okay, I understand what's going on. So let's just, you know, before we rush into like hating and blaming everything and being mad at the world, let's analyze it a little bit. I read this online and I wanted to talk to you about. And I wanted your reaction to this sentence. Okay the lost art of entertaining at home. Is it happening? Is it true?
SPEAKER_01No, I don't think so. Maybe. Okay, that's uh right now.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, food for thought.
SPEAKER_01I'm just thinking about that right now. Put you and I aside, right? Aside. Yes, who have never been to their house, or they've never been to my house ever. Like we can go out for other things, a la we've never been to each other's house. No.
SPEAKER_05But are we losing the art of hosting at home? And I actually love the the sentence art. I think we do. It is interesting. Some of my favorite memories have been in people's homes. There's something about opening your household, sitting with each other, umfjangstrape, you can say, Oh, I got drunk at this magazine. Okay, but how about those moments at the house that putravudasolimazi, it's that feeling of togetherness.
SPEAKER_01You know what it is? I think we think that our house is so personal. Nobody can come in, nobody like, and we don't open this anymore. Yeah. I have to say it's not for everyone. No. Like unless you speak, then in a yolk. Then in the option depot sexo.
SPEAKER_05No.
SPEAKER_01At the same time, we if we build bigger houses, but we don't invite anyone. It's sad. But again, still we don't open them up.
SPEAKER_05But in an apartment in Athens and where most people live, they're not as big as here for the most part, right? But you always made it work. There was, I remember one washroom, there will be 20 people. No one cares that there was one washroom.
SPEAKER_01It's totally different. The North American culture and the European culture is different. But I think even in Greece, they don't host anymore. It's the thing is the space. We don't have the space. Here you have the space, you have your backyard, you have your megalo saloni. In Greece, you don't have big, big um big houses, and that's why you're forced to go out, and it's cheaper to go out. But here, I think yeah, we're losing it. We're losing the art of hosting.
SPEAKER_05The art, the lost art of entertaining και να σα πω κάτι. Γιατί είναι. Γιατί να καλέσει κόσμο. Από μικρά πράγματα μέχρι το τρόπο που κάνει σε αιράπτο τραπέζι. Από το που θα έρθει, τι να σα δώσω. Δηλαδή είναι ένα νερά κι ένα. Δηλαδή, είναι πράγματα που δεν σταμαθαίνει αν δεν τα έχει ζήσει από του γονεί, τα έχει δει. Πώ να περιποιηθεί σε κάποιον. Δηλαδή μου έχει τύχει να πάω σε σπίτι ξένο που πηγαίνουμε σχολείο μαζί κτλ. Εκεί να σου έχουν βάλει τρία πράγματα και that was it. Even that in itself doesn't make you feel welcome. Δηλαδή ξυπνάτε πρώτα καλωσορίζει το μάτι.
SPEAKER_01And if you don't want a host, it shows. If you're forcing this, it shows. If you're not doing this naturally, it shows.
SPEAKER_05You open like a little bubbly or like a juice. You're all getting together, you know. And someone starts playing. Or like you put something that you get to talk about, and then the discussions around the food and the smells. Πόσο σημαντικέ είναι αυτέ τι οι μειροδέσει του φαγητού, του κεριού, που κάνει το σπίτι. Δηλαδή, είναι τέχνη το μπορεί να μαζεύει κόσμο, να ενώνει παρέσει που δεν είναι συνέχεια μαζί και να περνά τόσο καλά που να μην θε να φύγει. Πώ λέμε, αρμένη βίζα. Και ζητεύαινε αρμένικη βίζα, το έψαξα. Back in the day, για να πάω κάποια δικά στην Αρμενία, έπαινα να πάρει δύο μέρε. Δρόμο, π.χ. Οπότε όποιο ερχόταν έμεινε για καιρό, γιατί πρέπει να χειρονέρα και γίνει η Αρμένη Visa.
SPEAKER_01They have to come for stay there, exactly.
SPEAKER_05So the lost art of entertaining at home. But I also want to talk about another concept. Is the expectation to be perfect at the house when you're entertaining?
SPEAKER_01I think again, who do you invite? What are the expectations they have? Sometimes, you know, because we host a lot with Steve, we host a lot. Sometimes it's like, Miss Kemi's amazing, who cares? Like all the time. Sometimes you feel that the other person is like you have to try more. Like I think it's your guests. And I can tell us how comfortable with you are with this guest. Like, do you know them well? Is it like the first time? So if it's the first time, you're always more stressed. Allah, if it's like your friends and you're like, no expectations, and let's just have fun, and I prepare this for you, and they're happy. It's different. I think every time it's different. That's why you practice. You practice. For more updates in the latest news regarding a gumpy Greek radio woman. Follow us on Facebook at a gumpy drk radio or check us out at a gumpy greek radio deck. Okay, Tora Dora, and last is the art of entertaining at host lost. At home lost. Repeat that after me.
SPEAKER_05No, it was pretty good. It's the lost art of entertaining at home. That was the sentence that I read in one newspaper article. And I think we're changing and we're losing it in a way. Again, I love the fact that it's an art. Εγώ χαμαι να έχω κόσμο στο σπίτι, δηλαδή. Να φανταστείτε είχα κάτι φιλήσω με την νομική. Δύο μέρε ⁇ λέω ΟΚ, θα πάω να πάρω αυτά, είχα φτιάξει ένα μενού στο μυαλό μου, το είχα γράψει κάτω. Είχα κάνει τη λίστα από το Παμπούρα. Είχα βάλει το μπουκάλι με το σιν στο ψυγείο, μια μέρα νωρίτερα. Είχα ετοιμάσει τα κρίστα λάβου που λέμε. Είχα κάνει ο και, θα βάλω αυτά τα charger plate, θα βάλω εκείνο. Οπότε I get so excited and I want everyone to have a good time. So I think it has to do with the person αλλά how you've grown up too. I think my parents are also hosts. You care about everyone. And you want everyone to have a good time.
SPEAKER_01So I think we're losing it, but it's also because I think it's like again, we said it earlier, like o cosmos a lazi, we changed the laws. O cosmos alazi in this case too. O cosmos a la zona.
SPEAKER_05But I have to say, in your 30s, because a lot of my friends are having kids, it's a lot easier for them to come to the house. And then to go in the restaurant. Yeah. And I did this with uh my girlfriend. She brought her my she brought my niece, Pamela. She's two years old. So what did I do? I went and I got mark uh markers, mono crayons, kaliterata crayons, kati balaikas, kathi puzzles, giftis, then it's the mono and iligis, but you're also bringing children there. So how are you gonna keep the kids entertained? Even the food, because I know like she's pasta, right? So I made sure there was pasta there to incorporate her, and the kid had a sit at the table. Because I think it's also important to ensure that children from a young age learn to be very European lifestyle too, learn to be around the table.
SPEAKER_01Well, I I I love it. I think we should go back to the back. But that's the art of a good host, right? You have to think about everyone. Okay, that what they're gonna drink. No, it's not like what do you like? Okay, I like gin. Tai homono, gin sush pitimo. No, it's like what your guests like, and like you have to, oh, I know they love this uh whiskey, this, this. Like, have it. It's okay, just have it. Show them that you care. Show them that you know you you're thoughtful and you you think about everything, and you were looking forward to host them. That's why you have their favorite things, for example.
SPEAKER_05It's good because people will always remember how you make them feel. For example, I had my friends over from Vancouver, and I know she loves Diet Coke. And I try not to have pop at my house most of the time. That's better. No, first of all, me too. But yeah, I knew she was coming. I made sure I had Diet Coke.
SPEAKER_01So she would feel comfortable and taken care of. That's I think art of hosting is that like you care about them, you know what they want, you you know, you ask about allergies, you ask about what they want for breakfast, for example. Since they're gonna since they're gonna stay at your house, ask them like, do you eat breakfast? What do you do? Let me make sure I have the bacon you like, or eggs, or something that you might not have in your fridge.
SPEAKER_05Mastiha ke collyandro.
SPEAKER_01Mastiha ke collyandro, kolyandro, doctora. Mastiha to si genese. Okay.
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SPEAKER_05Like, so these are the two things you're never gonna find in my house. I know it's a very selfish approach, but you're never gonna find them.
SPEAKER_01It's okay though, because uh, mastiha, like that. No, so it's okay. It's okay.
SPEAKER_05This is my nightmare.
SPEAKER_01I think it's uh it's um because I know many people like you. They don't like kolyantro and they don't like masticha.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I'm gonna make a t-shirt. Sherry Francis will be joining us here on the Ralicia show. Tonekumak Norrisha Popula music videos. Like he's made so many music videos that you've seen, and now his first movie, The Last Call. He had an arfea who stayed a few weeks on the show. Now he's joined to talk about the film. So stay tuned, the Relicia Show.
SPEAKER_06Your number one station for Greek music. This is my station, Guppy Greek Radio. Hello, Sharif. How are you?
SPEAKER_03I'm good, I'm good. How are you? Good. I'm so excited to have you on the show. And we're gonna have a piece of you, your latest and first feature film to the Toronto films, into the Greek International Film Festival, especially here in Toronto.
SPEAKER_04Last call. How do you feel about that?
SPEAKER_00Well, first of all, I'm deeply honored. I'm deeply honored for you know to have my film uh in the festival, and I'm excited. to see the reaction from from uh people uh from people in canada greeks in canada and you know according to my conversation with uh standley you know they have they have a more affinity towards you know more um uh genre movies yeah so uh i'm really excited and uh to see you know to to uh to uh for the feedback and the reaction you know what and now i get to pick your brain let me learn more about you and how you got to that though so share if more i understand your background was a lot of music video commercials you've you've done so much of that so why this feature film how did how was this born well i to be honest um i i did a lot of music videos but i never uh considered remaining or making it uh a lifelong career in music videos music videos are a good entry point if you want to get into filmmaking to understand yourself as a filmmaker so uh it was a very good uh school uh very good learning ground uh as far as uh learning how you know how the practical aspect of filmmaking works you know and considering that music videos don't have dialogue and my style in music videos was making small stories so a lot of my short film exactly a lot of my my um my music videos were short films essentially but they didn't have any dialogue so you learn doing music videos the the power of the angle the framing in order to tell a story without you know without actually having any words to use you know that's like very like very high end films that no one understands what's going on and there's no dialogue no but these are more you know you kind of you kind of work with the with the with the um uh emotions that the song brings out and you try and build a story on that absolute and do you have any favorite of your music I know I know people say I love all my music videos but do you have any that stand out for you? Well the ones that stand out to be honest are you know I when I started making my website you know I wanted to put you know my work I you know and uh I've done over 300 400 music videos and you know that's quite a number of music videos and you know I I didn't want to put all of them I just wanted to put the ones that really represented me and as I was you know making my website and I was picking out the ones that I that I felt represented me it uh turned out to be uh after having done that I I realized that the ones I ended up picking were the ones where the artists or the record label uh gave me carte blanche to do you know whatever I wanted and you know I realized that only after I had made the selection. You explored your own exactly exactly because you know uh when you do music videos or commercials you are essentially you know you have a client it's it's a client-based filmmaking uh so you know so a lot of the times you get requests on what they want but uh the ones that they let you do whatever it is that you want to do uh you know you get to explore your creativity there and uh they're the ones that actually ended up making my you know uh my selection as far as my work uh you know on my website okay give me a song the ones that are on my website are are are are gonna be my favorite okay give me a song and let me see if I can envision the music video uh a song um uh a song uh any song any song where you directed a music video and I'm gonna see if I remember it let's play a game um let's see um uh how about uh Vegas in Vegas okay okay top well tell me more which song Philly oh my god I remember it I remember it so um I have that all in my mind and there's a bunch of things happening and there's a lot of movement in the background no no I'm thinking of Piopsila uh Piopsila is with the teddy bear yes of the singing the teddy bear okay yeah okay give me more like what's happening that music video it's gonna come to me it's uh a couple dancing okay yeah it's an old music video I know but it's I I can't like I almost see it I almost see it in my mind well another reason I I you know it's um it's also uh uh it also happens to be a song that I wrote oh okay so it's it's more personal yeah yeah he's a unica artist in everything you do whether you're directing or writing and it seems you talked about other people being your clients but in last call you're your client are you a good client exactly exactly are you a good client well uh here's the thing you know when you work with um you know so many years with client-based filmmaking that's how I call it like when it comes to music videos and um and uh commercials um you tend to be less selfish about uh the filmmaking you want to do and you you want to m entertain as many people as you want so you you know you uh you look into making whatever it is that you're making to appeal to as many people uh as possible so yeah I mean that this is my style like I I'm not I I don't consider myself a a filmmaker that does something very niche in the sense that you know something that that that uh that addresses uh niche topics or you know is is about niche um is for niche you know uh subjects that has a limited audience you know uh working in a very commercial environment you you tend to understand the joy of having a lot of people enjoying your work yeah it's more mass media in the sense that people will go and check it out in the big screen and it's because you know sometimes some films are only made for a very small crowd that will only go to certain kinds of things I totally get what you're saying. So last call how was this born come about it well I I I I wanted to do a movie like throughout the years as I was doing music videos and commercials I wanted to do a movie so I you know I started writing uh the script the screenplay for uh last call uh but I was uh you know I was writing it in between work so I you know I'd write a page here and there you know a page one page every three months you know whenever I had the time you know or whenever I wasn't tired and then um COVID hit so you know I sat at home I was at home and um I saw this very interesting um ex uh phrase I don't know I I saw it somewhere on the internet which you know struck me uh uh struck me which was you know now that you know now that there's COVID and everybody's sitting at home pretty much doing nothing um you know if if whatever it is that you wanted to do you know your excuse was you didn't have enough time if you don't do it now then time was never your problem so that hit me hard so it's like okay I better get started on the uh it pinched the nerve dilemma it pinched exactly exactly so you know yeah because if if your excuse was you never have time well here you go you have time now so you know what's your excuse um so uh and what also triggered me to do it to work uh harder on it was that uh Tanwear Productions had posted um a pitching forum uh they were looking for screenplays so I saw that it it it had a deadline uh about a month I had a month deadline and I was like on page 10 from you know like the past couple of years I was like writing uh one page every now and then you know when procrastination gets to you when the deadline is coming out exactly exactly so um I sat down and uh I pretty much finished the first draft of the screenplay about a day before the deadline and uh I sent it in and I didn't expect much to happen really you know until I got uh you know an email from Tanmir Productions that it was selected amongst uh the screenplays you know for you know to present it so they had a forum where I went there I presented the screenplay and then you know several months later they showed interest in the screenplay and then things started rolling from there and um about uh um February of last year maybe January February of last year uh they basically said you know green light let's go and you know I was like okay um is there a possibility maybe I could direct it you know I was I was I was you know I was a bit reluctant because you know um giving it to someone who hasn't done a feature film before you know it's it's a big risk for uh for any company yeah to do that but you know um you know to their to the you know that they they were they were kind enough and generous enough to you know to give me the opportunity. So what did you find harder or maybe what challenged you especially considering the difference between a music video which has been kind of your niche versus a full feature film well I'm very comfortable because of all the filming that I've done I'm very comfortable on film sets. I'm very comfortable around crews I'm very comfortable around all that stuff so uh the thing that would I would say challenged me the most would be the things that I had the least interaction with during music videos and commercials which was um actors you don't have a lot of actors in uh music videos you mostly might have a model maybe you'll have a guest actor but you know actors and dialogue you know and uh it was something that you know I needed to uh was was well I would say it was challenging but it was fun because it was something new so you know I enjoyed doing it but it was something that I needed to get into quickly. And it was also part of your personal growth in a way if you think about it. Yes yes I mean you know and and and to make things harder you know we had a lot of uh A-list actors you know it wasn't like a movie where you know I had also actors that were you know just starting out you know and you know we were on the same you know uh artistic level like that stuff you know uh most of the actors you know they were uh they've they've done movies before and with you know with great directors uh you know with famous directors so you know it was it was a bit you know you know you had actors that were experienced so you know the the the extender was high didn't he make you a little nervous I would be a little nervous it did it did it did make me a little nervous but they were all amazing to work with they were all very professional they all uh you know we had great conversations about each one's character and you know and I enjoyed building the characters of of the movie with you know with each um actor you know with Orfeas building the character of Nicolai with uh with Jorgos Benos building the character of Abdonis with Maria Napliotu of you know the character of Carolina you know and you know and with Dmitris Lalos building the character of uh and um and I I like that that was my method like my method was you know I want to give room for the actors to kind of bring in their own um their own input their input into you know how they see the character and you know and then that developed into actually working with the dialogue because once they started getting into the character they were they would like okay my character wouldn't say it like that maybe they would phrase it like that I was like great let's uh let's change the dialogue like I I like to give them a lot of space to you know to explore their own characters especially when you have um very experienced actors like that it's very collaborative really if the approach of working with each other that way yes yes so how did you feel when you ended up seeing the end product of your baby it came to life you carried for so long and now we were born well the thing is I was I was there on every step of the way like we had to finish the editing with uh Favoris Armaz the editor we had to finish the editing quite fast so we were together seven days a week 12 hours a day you know editing the film and we were watching it you know second by second being built and then you know I was there with the sound design with Aris Luziotis and Kostas varybobiotis you know we were I was there with him like you know for many hours you know building the sound the sound design of the world um you know so it wasn't like I just saw it one day uh finished but seeing it in a movie theater because all this time you're seeing it in in monitors and screens but then when you see it in a movie theater it it just hits differently you know it's like wow like the movie is in a movie theater and it's you know it it just um you can't describe that feeling really did you pinch yourself did you pitch yourself like yep it's real um well I think my wife pinched me so what do you expect people in North America to take from this film well first of all I would like I I would I would hope that they enjoy the film I would hope that they they they sit and watch the movie and it captivates them and it brings them into uh the world that we created uh and from there perhaps um because I I don't like to discuss like like I've I I figured that I don't like to discuss as far as um themes I don't like to discuss local themes but more universal themes you know brought in from a local from a from a specific country but you know when you're talking about things like uh corruption you know that's that's a universal theme um the media is a is a universal theme um people that are um that are abandoned by the system uh that's a that's a universal theme that you know you you know you don't that anybody like you don't need to have be to be a uh uh not even a a Greek person that lives in America but you don't even need to be a Greek person yeah to to relate to those themes so you know I'm hoping they uh they understand it perhaps they see something you know in their own culture or not see something or learn something from there you know it it's it the the beautiful thing about movies is that you know each person receives the movie differently but at the end of the day I think they should all just enjoy it.
SPEAKER_03And where is Latco traveling to uh the film yes or the story of the film?
SPEAKER_00The film where is it traveling to so I know it's coming to Canada through Git where else I I don't know to be honest yet like I I'm uh you know I I don't know really I think I think it might be traveling to Edinburgh beautiful and that's as much as I know so far. We say in Greek and everything's gonna go really well from now on I hope so um and uh well I you know uh the you know any you know anywhere it goes it's it it's great um my I think as far as my first my first target is that it like here in Greece it plays in the movie theaters it it did amazingly well as far as even as far as ticket tickets are concerned like you know it's projected like by the end of the summer to do about 200 000 uh tickets which by Greek standards that's that's a that's a hit that's a that's a great hit and you know you know for a first film with all that stuff you know I think I I think you know it it you know my my my first motivation or my first m goal was to you know was to prove that I can be in that industry. And I think you've proven yourself. So what's next for you Sheriff Well now I'm pretty much working on my next one writing the screenplay for my next one you got the bug now you got the screenplay I got the bug now yeah exactly and um you know I'm I'm spending you know my mornings pretty much you know working on it writing and you know trying to um to basically uh try to to write something that I want to watch you know try and get you know like I I try not to let that move like last call kind of dictate the way I write my next one I just try and keep the feeling of uh how what got me to write next call to guide me into the next one.
SPEAKER_02I love that well good luck with it and hopefully we'll get to feature that as well at the Greek International Film Festival tour of Kenda and I hope to see you in person very soon.
SPEAKER_04I told you we are the lucky charm if you're speaking to us in Durha show you're gonna make it here at some point. Oh wonderful wonderful wonderful sheriff it was such a pleasure to get to know you and get to know the film and we look forward to having it here with us in September of 2026.
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