Gabriella Kapsaski
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Biography
Gabriella Kapsaski is a writer and theatre & film director/producer. Kapsaski has a long background in theatre. She was the founder and Producer of the "Ancient Theatre Alive Festival" (2000-2002) as well as producer for the Antitheatro, Athens (1998 - 2002) and Act Provocateur International (2005-2006) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She also produced and co-wrote two Radio series, "Europe between the Wars" (1981-1982) [ET1] with Kostas Mazanis and "Under the Light of the Full Moon" (1981-1983) [ERT2], National Radio Greece. She produced the films "Spidarlings" (2016, released by "Troma" in 2018), "My Head Hurts" (2000) and "Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" (2019). She is the Co-Founder and C.E.O. of Après Vague Productions and was a producer for 37 episodes of the US TV show London Calling. Kapsaski directed "Artemis of the Wildland" (2018) and is in pre-production for "Kawaii" (2019).
Known For
Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.
Spidarlings
News, reviews and interviews. Topical magazine program about what's going on and happening in London.
London Calling
Lloyd Kaufman from Troma sits down for a Q&A at The Prince Charles Cinema in London on the evening of a Troma Triple-bill.
An Evening of Troma-tainment with Lloyd Kaufman
"Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" is a bare all Avant-garde Anthology homage to silent stag films.
Films Confiscated from a French Brothel
A young man, Jason, is on his way home and meets two beautiful women, Hope and Alexis. He falls for Hope, but has sex with Alexis. He doesn't know that Alexis' husband has hired a private detective to trail her, and the man reports back to Alexis' husband about her affair with Jason. The husband kills Alexis but the police suspect Jason. He and Hope have to clear his name and find enough evidence to prove the husband is the killer.
The Hot Month of August
Sasha returns to Manchester to discover the city has been taken over by aliens in this apocalyptic queer Sci-Fi movie.
The Moon is a Hologram
Horror film set in Victorian Manchester following a young group of Scuttlers.
Scuttlers
Marianne an elderly woman who devoted her life to the occult predicts her own death, afraid for her life she makes a deal with a strange man who calls himself 'The Fool' who tells her he could alter her future and save her from her destiny. When strangers start to move into her house, and she loses all control over her life she realizes that a worse destiny is awaiting her.
My Head Hurts
Logan takes his girlfriend Isla to Kawaii Cafe for her birthday. Everything is perfect and so very cute. But how much sweetness can one handle before things turn sour?
Kawaii
A film crew enters a wax museum at night to secretly film a porn parody of House of Wax. By disturbing the displays at night Wax Elvis and Bettie Page come to live to terrorise Manchester and murder innocent citizens.
Waxhouse Rock
Baron von Harden is rich and highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at Mephisto's House of Ill Repute exchanging his soul for unlimited worldly pleasures.
Mephisto's House of Ill Repute
Surreal short film based on Aleister Crowley's poem The Red Lips of the Octopus. English Occultist Aleister Crowley reminiscences his love affair with Herbert Charles Pollitt.
The Red Lips of the Octopus
A stop motion animation film based on the legend of the Black Shuck.
Curse of the Black Shuck
Nefeli (Nefeli Papaioannou) moves to her boyfriend's (Iraklis Savvopoulos) flat. After a while she discovers that strange hallucinations invade her life. Being afraid of her boyfriend's reaction to the bad news, she decides not to let him know about that situation. But after a while, she gets to know why those hallucinations became a part of her being.