Peter Salapatas
Camera
Biography
Panagiotis Salapatas was born in Australia in 1965. There he studied Theoretical Mathematics and Classical Literature in Translation Bachelor of Arts and continued in New York with studies in cinema, Bachelor of Fine Arts and then in Los Angeles with a Master of Fine Arts also in cinema In 1997 he follows an exiled Sudanese priest from Kenya back to the Sudanese war where he carries much needed goods for his fellow villagers. His experiences are also mentioned in the book War and Faith in Sudan (published by Wm. B. Eardmans Publishing Co. 2005) by Gabriel Meyer, a fellow travel journalist. In 1999 he works in the Philippines as a director of photography in the independent film production KAMO. In 1999 he returned permanently to Greece and created the film production company Two Stroke Films with Yiannis Fagras. He works as a cinematographer/cinematographer and co-producer in the film project Tell Morphine I'm Still Looking for her, which won the Panhellenic Union of Film Critics award at the Thessaloniki Festival in 2001. In 2006, he directed the documentary THE FOREST DANCES, which won the audience award at the PLATFORMA festival VIDEO. In 2008 he photographed the film SLAVES IN THEIR BOND directed by Toni Lykouresi. The film won ten awards at the Thessaloniki festival in 2009. At the end of 2008, he filmed the film FORGET ME NOT, directed by Yiannis Fagras. The film takes place in New Orleans and Alaska. He works as a lecturer at Aristotle University in the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Department of Cinema.
Known For
On a cold November night, three couples, each at a different point in their relationship, drift through the city as they face moments of love, heartbreak, and the fragile hope of new beginnings.
I Will Love You in November
Penniless at the end of another tourist season, Panos and Jimmy grasp the chance for an easy buck aboard Captain Nico’s tired sailboat. As she navigates the east Aegean in search of sunken treasure, their secret aspirations quickly unravel. Suspicion, greed and the brutality of Greece’s sea border will force a change of course for this motley crew.
Little Man-Eater
A road movie at sea and a love adventure. The story of two lovers at the world’s edge. Shot on location in the North Pacific, the Bering Sea, Alaska and New Orleans. A movie, with two Greek protagonists, about a myth that knows no borders.
Forget Me Not
Two hundred years after the Greek Revolution, a coup d’état is underway in Greece. A man named Odysseus hides in a theater for three days. On the third night, a woman named Athena finds him in his shelter. As the night passes by, they slowly transform into the mythological characters of the same name.
A Night at the Theater
Ricky rides her motorcycle among real and imagined dangers, to arrive unscathed, but unalterably changed, at the end of summer. The unrelenting wind of the season disrupts a landscape of inaction, theft and drug use. The end of innocence has already begun and a new path, dark and hopeful, stands waiting like the ships beyond her window. It will be an act of violence that thrusts the girl into womanhood and leads her to a new life where, not without pain, everything is possible.
Still Looking for Morphine
A musician wonders around the Greek province. On his way to Athens he picks up a young girl.
Elvin
A man trapped in an endlessly repeating space resembling a subterranean parking lot with multiple levels, is searching frantically for the exit.
E71 (Level 71)
During the pandemic and the Greek lock down, the locked down relationship of a married couple with kids reaches a pivotal point at the sight of a younger and in love couple who lives in the opposite apartment.