One of my favourite moments of our premiere weekend was this one:
It’s my sometimes reticent 15 year old son Harry being bailed up by the video promo guy we hired to enthuse about his Dad’s film. Harry didn’t make the first cut of the video above, he’ll be pleased to know.
I never thought I’d contribute an ‘excited people raving outside cinema’ piece to the world, but we’ve done it! All we really had to do was surf the energy at any of our sold out screenings piece some lovely reviews together.
We have two encore screenings as part of the Greek Film Festival. They could show the film a maximum of eight times, and they are doing just that:
Sessions times are:
Sydney - Norton Street cinema, Leichardt, Sunday 3rd November, 4pm Tickets
Melbourne - Como Cinema, South Yarra, Sunday 10th November, 7pm Tickets (fewer than 100 left)
We’ve had so many good reviews, like this one in Neos Kosmos, or this one on letterboxd.
There are three possibilities in the football: can be the winning; can be the losing; or can make it the draw – Ferenc Puskás
As a Greek-Australian football fan from Melbourne I might be a little biased, but I absolutely fell in love with the story of how one of the greatest footballers of all time came to call Middle Park home.
Some of the anecdotes are all time, in the humour they add to the story and in evidencing how far ahead of his time Puskás was both in the football he played and his style of man management. Loved this from Kimon Taliadoris in the post-film Q&A: “He was most interested in making each individual feel positive about themselves and in the football they played, playing it the beautiful way.”
Fingers crossed this film can get the funding it needs so that this wonderful story can be more well known, both across Australia and the footballing world.
[Puskás and Ange] serve to celebrate football as managers - they make the game the hero, and not themselves – Miki Petersen
When he says, ‘get the funding it needs’, we have long been chasing the funds required for a commercial release ($30,000 more for Australia wide, $80,000 more for worldwide). At the moment we have archive license clearances for film festivals only.
But people are loving it! It’s going to come out widely, hopefully world-widely.
And my favourite review so far? This lovely one that bipped into my phone as we had some drinks at the Railway Hotel, after the Astor screeening.
Sessions times are:
Sydney - Norton Street cinema, Leichardt, Sunday 3rd November, 4pm Tickets
Melbourne - Como Cinema, South Yarra, Sunday 10th November, 7pm Tickets (fewer than 100 left)
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