18 | BOROMAG.COM | JULY 2015 THE ARTS The Filmmaker Story By Thomas Caramanno New York has produced some of cinema’s greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Spike Lee, to name a few—visionaries who pushed the boundaries of film with harrowing narratives set against the backdrop of the gritty, dilapidated streets of the Big Apple. Today, a young director and New York native hopes to follow in the footsteps of such legends, all while developing his own distinct style and building a reputation as an imaginative auteur. Petros Georgiadis, writer and director of the shorts “Running Out” and “The Paradox,” hopes to engender buzz on the film festival circuit next year with his first feature-length production, “Sever.” Grounded in themes of intimacy, adultery and the foibles of human relationships, the film tells of a wife coming to terms with her husband’s extramarital affair over the course of a weekend. In describing his inspiration for the material, Georgiadis claimed he did not understand duplicity in relationships, and yearned to enter the mind of an adulterer. Though sex and infidelity are potent themes for any filmmaker to explore, Georgiadis attempts to infuse such dark, somber subject matter with more lighthearted tones. He describes his artistic style as an amalgamation of “tragedy and comedy, because that’s what life is—in 24 hours, we go through a range of emotions and that’s what I try to bring into films.” More than anything, it is the intricate fibers of life that Georgiadis hopes to capture with his work, and that includes creating a realistic portrayal of both the beautiful and unappealing aspects of the world. “I don’t like bullshit in my films, like ‘Transformers.’ I like to make films about real people,” he professed. Georgiadis specifically draws inspiration from filmmakers such as Spike Jonze and David O’Russell, whose quirky, idiosyncratic characters and story structures serve as a model for his own craft. In his shorts, both of which Georgiadis wrote in one day, he proves himself to be an adept, versatile storyteller, vacillating between romantic sentimentality in one and the depths of sexual and moral corruption in the other. “Running Out” investigates love and a marriage that transcends time and space, even in the afterlife. “The Paradox,” influenced by a poem written by Georgiadis’ friend Karina Vetrano, sheds light upon the prototypical battle between good and evil within the collective consciences of its two protagonists. “Running Out” was well received and lauded, being nominated for a multitude of awards at the Sparrow Film Project, a cinematic festival run by the Sparrow Tavern in Astoria. Georgiadis even took home the award for Best Director. Georgiadis, who was born in Greece but immigrated with his family to Astoria in 1997, dates his passion for film and entertainment to his time as a student at Long Photo of Petros Georgiadis by Sarkis Delimelkon
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