Vasilis Kekatos, who won the Palme d’Or and the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 for his short film “The Distance Between Us and the Sky,” is prepping a TV series centered on an unwan…
Vasilis Kekatos, who won the Palme d’Or and the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 for his short film “The Distance Between Us and the Sky,” is prepping a TV series centered on an unwanted pregnancy in a provincial Greek town.
In developing his first series, Kekatos was inspired by his childhood on the island of Kefalonia, a place far removed from the bright lights and pulsing life of Athens, where time ground to a halt each year with the onset of winter. The director recalled being surrounded by other dreamers like himself, among them female classmates whose plans for the future were often cut short by unwanted pregnancies. “I never stopped thinking about them,” he said. “I always reflected on everything that was taken away from them, and when we run into each other after years I can see all these unused possibilities dancing around them.”
Kekatos said the series would address what he sees as a shortfall in Greek television, where both financial constraints and conservative social mores have prevented “youthful and daring content” to flourish.
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