Filmmaker Stella Kyriakopoulos is just $6,000 away from reaching the $25,000 needed to fund her short film, Volta.
The film follows a mother and her 5-year-old daughter as they travel through the Greek capital, mapping the changing neighbourhoods from the northern suburbs to the centre of Athens.
“I used to take the same journey the characters will take in the film to get to school every day with my little brother,” Kyriakopoulos says in her kickstarter campaign.
Volta is my reaction to coming back to Athens last winter, making the same journey again and seeing all the changes around me. I ended up doing most of my writing on these journeys around the city and everything that’s in the film is based on things I saw and conversations I had on them,” she explains. She has until September 24 to reach her funding goal.
A graduate of the MFA Film program at New York University, Kyriakopoulos is also a recipient of the Attica Tradition Foundation Scholarship. She is currently an MFA candidate at Tisch School of the Arts in New York and Volta is her thesis film.
Visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/volta/volta-a-short-film to donate.
Source: Kathimerini