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ENCRIPTA, Latin America's largest distributor and core partner of Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Amazon, Sony Pictures, Miramax, Universal, Lionsgate, etc. has acquired the distribution rights to the film "FRANKENSTEIN" by Costas Zapas for 18 countries of Latin America. The film will be released in Spanish and Portuguese language next year in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Uruguay, Paraguay, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guyana.
"FRANKENSTEIN REC"
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Frankenstein REC" novel has been adapted into a feature film and will be released internationally in Sept/Oct. 2021 by the US distributor "House of Film". See the official film trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttvssJrMgE
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Published by one of the leading Greek publishers, “Kastaniotis Editions” (ISBN: 978-960-03-5826-1)
New revised by author edition 2020
240p, English translation available for publishers
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A theatre troupe comes to town performing “Frankenstein”. A young female reporter, who is investigating the legend, believes that the novel is not a fiction but the true story of a group of alchemists, founded by the young doctor Victor Frankenstein. In 1817, they managed to defeat mortality and return from the dead. Interviewing the theatre troupe members, the reporter is confronted with the dark heroes of the novel, who appear in the city more alive than ever. Her investigations lead her to a universe of monsters and finally to a revelation about the secret of an eternal love that defies even death. But what is real and what is just her imagination? Who are these “actors”? Why have they come to her town? And who even it this young reporter?
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Reviews
"FRANKENSTEIN REC is a fascinating new take on the 19th-century gothic classic that renews the story of Victor Frankenstein in an unforeseen way. "
Grady Harp, top 10 Hall of Fame reviewer
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"Mary Shelley and Victor Frankenstein in an electrifying conspiracy for the creation of the new living deaths give a new take on the infamous Monster and its creator. This astonishing book on the famous tale is a welcomed surprise."
ComicBookMovie.com
BLUE HEART
166 p. Greek edition by "Kedros" -
in development for film
Poseidon, an alcoholic teenager working as underpaid transporter at the harbor, meets his girlfriend Lydia and his best friend Fotis, a young male whore, in a no-name fast food in the poor suburbs of Athens. Lydia met an Arab full of cocaine in his villa and Fotis is trying to convince them to steal the stuff and set up a business. They will hire young Greek-Russian emigrant women to sell the stuff. The discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Poseidon’s mother and his autistic sister in her wheelchair. His mother has to go to work and he has to take care of his over-aged grandmother and his autistic sister at home. They decide to hit the Arab. Lydia will date the Arab in his villa and Poseidon and Fotis will organize to hit him. But when things go wrong, everything around them changes. To survive they have to live beyond any rules and regulations. Rough heroes living on the edge. Life is recorded as it is, funny and tragic.
"Costas Zapas confronts Greek society with its actual nightmarish actions – the actions that nobody dares to talk about"
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COSTAS ZAPAS
With books in major Greek publishers like "Kanstaniotis" ("Frankenstein [REC]") and "Kedros"("Blue Heart") and his latest film "Frankenstein" sold for world release in 2021 to the LA-based "House of Film, Costas Zapas has also worked with Lars von Trier production company Zentropa that co-financed his film “Minor freedoms". Cineuropa named Costas Zapas as "one of the most outstanding directors of contemporary cinema", The Guardian as "one of the main protagonists of the burgeoning Greek new cinema wave», and Latin America daily Pagina/12 characterizes Zapas as “the most explosive vein of the brilliant new wave of Greek cinema”. “Costas Zapas confronts Greek society with its actual nightmarish actions – the actions that nobody dares to talk about” (I.B.Tauris, Realism in Greek cinema). Zapas’ work is compared to Antonin Artaud, Jonas Mekas in an in-depth analysis by acclaimed Cinema Journal, and with the work of Jack Smith, Russ Meyer, John Waters, Andy Warhol, and the adventurous films of Gregg Araki.
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