cracking everyday life

about

Luton is the debut feature film of director Michalis Κonstantatos.
written by Michalis Konstantatos and Stelios Lykouressis.

It premiered in San Sebastian Film Festival – New Director’s competitive section, 2013

Awarded Best Directorial Debut – Athens International Film Festival 2014
Received Honorable Mention Copenhagen CPH Pix Award Best New Talent
Nominated for Best First Feature BFI London Film Festival, 2013
Nominated for Best Feature Stockholm International Film Festival, 2013

other select festival participations

Torino IFF, 2013
Poland, New Horizons, 2014
Sofia international Film Festival Balkan Competition 2014
Guadalahara International Film Festival Mexico 2014
Barcelona Auteur Film Festival 2014
Oldenburg International Film Festival 2014
Prague Fresh Fest 2014

As a project:

Selected by L’ Atelier Cinefondation, Cannes 2011
Selected for the Cinelink Development Workshop and Co-production Market of the Sarajevo Film Festival 2010
Participated in Crossroads 2010, Thessaloniki International Film Festival co-production forum & Agora Works in Progress 2012
Participated in Mediterrenean Film Institute Script Workshops, 2010, in Nisyros & Samos

site: www.luton.gr
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3112966/

story

Jimmy is a wealthy high-school student, about 17 years old. Mary is a trainee lawyer in her 30’s. Makis is a fifty-year-old family man and the owner of a mini-market.

Three very different people to each other and their everyday life.

In the frame of their conventional life that pressures them, when everything seems so still and expected, these three people find their own way out.

Director

Michalis Konstantatos studied Directing at Stavrakos Athens Film School, Sociology at the University of Athens and he completed an MA in Architecture in the field of «Designing Space and Culture» at the National Technical University of Athens.
Since 2002 he has been directing short films, TV dramas, music videos, experimental short films, video installations for public spaces and theatre plays. He is also the cofounder and director of the theatre company ‘blindspot’. He has written and directed two short films that were awarded in various international film festivals. ‘LUTON’ is his first feature film.

Filmography

LUTON (100′, 2013)
TWO TIMES NOW (35mm, 9′, 2007) Best Film, Stockholm Film iFestival – Best Film, Melbourne Portable Film Festival
ONLY FOR EVER (35mm, 11′, 2003) Greek Film Center prize, Drama International Short Film Festival

http://www.michaliskonstantatos.wordpress.com

Stills