Katerina Philippou-Curtis
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Thoughtful and provocative drama about Europe's current sociopolitical crisis told through the allegory of a crumbling and twisted marriage. Europe, the wife, trapped in a boom and bust relationship with her young and immature husband Rich, feels lost and disconnected from reality. Unable to deal with his sexual demands and the tragedy that has occurred because of his misconduct, Europe embarks on an unusual journey to find herself. On her way she’ll meet the people that have haunted her marriage and affected her life: Rich’s decadent mother, his corrupted friends, his innocent victims and most importantly his domineering lover Adam - a man who seems to dictate the fate of many, including hers. The film is shot both in Colour and Black and White. This aesthetic is vital to the story as it best represents the wife's dichotomy. Life inside the apartment is monochrome, unhappy, unloving, brutal. Life outside - in her mind, is colourful, truthful, challenging but hopeful. These symbolisms not only reflect the continuous moral dilemmas Europe faces but also expose the mental and psychological process that leads a woman to seek a divorce. More details and background can be seen at the film's dedicated website www.marriage.film
Marriage (2017)
Director: Kat Phillipou-CurtisThoughtful and provocative drama about Europe's current sociopolitical crisis told through the allegory of a crumbling and twisted marriage. Europe, the wife, trapped in a boom and bust relationship with her young and immature husband Rich, feels lost and disconnected from reality. Unable to deal with his sexual demands and the tragedy that has occurred because of his misconduct, Europe embarks on an unusual journey to find herself. On her way she’ll meet the people that have haunted her marriage and affected her life: Rich’s decadent mother, his corrupted friends, his innocent victims and most importantly his domineering lover Adam - a man who seems to dictate the fate of many, including hers. The film is shot both in Colour and Black and White. This aesthetic is vital to the story as it best represents the wife's dichotomy. Life inside the apartment is monochrome, unhappy, unloving, brutal. Life outside - in her mind, is colourful, truthful, challenging but hopeful. These symbolisms not only reflect the continuous moral dilemmas Europe faces but also expose the mental and psychological process that leads a woman to seek a divorce. More details and background can be seen at the film's dedicated website www.marriage.film
- Distributor: Amazon Prime
- Production Company: Inventome, IRIS Productions
- Awards: Cardiff International Film festival - Best Drama (2017), NYC Indie Awards - Best Feature, Best Director, Best Score, Best Cinematography, Best VFX, Best Actress (2017), Mindfield LA Film Festival - Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best VFX (2018), Hollywood IMPFF - Best Drama, Best Score, Best VFX, Best Cinematography, Best Woman Filmmaker, Best Actress (2018), Accolade Global Film - Best Woman Filmmaker, Best Film Feature (2018), IndieFest - Film Feature, Woman Filmmaker (2017), Madrid Art Film Festival - Best Drama (2017), European Cinematography Awards ( 3 awards) (2017), JIFF (Jaipur) - Critics Award, Best European Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Design, Best Actress. Best Supporting Actress, and Editing (2018), Caorle Film Festival (Italy) - Best Feature Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best VFX, Best Sound Editing (2018), European IFA - Best Drama, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best VFX, Best Actress, Best Score (2017), Switzerland International Film festival - Best Drama (2017), London IFA - Best British Feature, Best Female Director, Best Cinematography, Best VFX and Best Editing (2017)
- Genre: Drama
- Link: https://vimeo.com/165116374
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A gang of fearless, candid, pansexual, witty, 60+ darlings, fucking with the norm and loving it. They ignore age, ignore aches and pains and focus on changing perceptions in a society that has stereotyped them. Each bOLD story takes you down a humorous alley of discovery and slaps you at the very end with an unexpected twist. The world of bOLD is wrapped in conflict, shock, style, triumph and surprise. Our heroes are not always righteous, in fact they are corrupted, headstrong, and downright deviant. The engine of the series runs on the stories and the trespassing character that carries the series forward. Love, sex, revenge, provocation, political correctness and religion, to name but a few, are themes explored in the series. For our bolders, ageing is great - and not only when bottled. Experience is their aphrodisiac and they use it accordingly whether they’re predators, victims or saviours. Like Inside No 9 and Black Mirror, bOLD is a short, punchy, revealing brain-tease. This is not a black or white comedy, it’s a grey comedy against ageism, perfect for the sensitivities of 2021 with a recognisable older cast and a culturally diverse younger one that will cleverly merge to create a series reflecting Britain tomorrow.
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In a packed commuter train, Jack, 60s, finds a seat opposite Alice, 70s. They steal glances at each other until Alice takes her chance and asks him one question...one question that leaves everyone gasping. What follows is so shocking that any polite person shouldn't be engaging, but sod it, they all do. In this sexual comedy against ageism, we are invited for an unusual ride. Like wine that gets better with age, our characters help reminding us that there is nothing sexier than the ’mind’. Even youth pales compared to these two. One Track Mind (OTM) stars the supremely talented Jane Asher, Bill Fellows and Angus Kennedy. Our society is obsessed with youth and beauty. What was once real is now enhanced by filters on apps and surreal morphs of one's face, while communication skills take a back seat. Older people are marginalised and misrepresented and they shouldn't. The crux of One Track Mind is to show how fun can be to be old. How free, daring and carefree older people can be as opposed to the younger generation who live their life mainly bent over their devices failing to notice important little things. Alice is an extraordinary woman, played perfectly by the legendary Jane Asher, who infused her own charisma and free spirit into the role.
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A psychological thriller, a mental game that unfolds within two parallel stories and in three different time frames. The Boys' (young and old) and the woman's (the narrator and psychiatrist) who deals with the sole survivor of a collective suicide. In 1975, five 11 year-olds public school boys went on a school trip to a summer camp in Greece. There, provoked by one of the local teenagers, they committed a crime which they kept secret. 25 years later, that secret comes back to haunt them. The 35mm film premiered at Thessaloniki International Film Festival in the New Horizons Section to critical acclaim. Funded by the Greek Film Centre, Amy International, Red Box Productions and Inventome, the film was edited by award-winning editor Adam Recht. ( My week with Marylin, Poldark, Victoria). Music by Robert Hartshorne.
The Boys (1999)
Director: Kat Philippou-CurtisA psychological thriller, a mental game that unfolds within two parallel stories and in three different time frames. The Boys' (young and old) and the woman's (the narrator and psychiatrist) who deals with the sole survivor of a collective suicide. In 1975, five 11 year-olds public school boys went on a school trip to a summer camp in Greece. There, provoked by one of the local teenagers, they committed a crime which they kept secret. 25 years later, that secret comes back to haunt them. The 35mm film premiered at Thessaloniki International Film Festival in the New Horizons Section to critical acclaim. Funded by the Greek Film Centre, Amy International, Red Box Productions and Inventome, the film was edited by award-winning editor Adam Recht. ( My week with Marylin, Poldark, Victoria). Music by Robert Hartshorne.
- Distributor: GFC World Sales
- Production Company: Inventome / GFC/ Red Box Productions, Amy International
- Genre: Thriller
- Link: https://vimeo.com/223790700
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Inspired by Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt, the Libertines takes place in 2063, after the internet imploded and was re-invented and regulated. The cause being the computer game ‘Liberti’ that took the young by storm back in 2025, and offered money to the players who would reach unprecedented levels of disobedience and cruelty against their parents. Soon the ‘Libertines’ are redefining greed and freedom and as a result the first parental murder takes place, rewarding the gamer with £2million. The play explores brain hacking and the degree of subconscious manipulation of children, as gaming addiction clinics are very real and Momo, Deleted and Blue Whale challenges have already led to suicides.The LIBERTINES represent debauched, moral-free individuals, whose obsessive pleasure in gaming, monetary greed and instant unregulated power has resulted in the breakdown of the family/school unit and consequently led to total social anarchy. The playfilm uses Projections and filmic sequences with VFX to portray the birth of the game, the brain altering chemistry, hacking and addiction. It also showcases real addicts and their threats and destructive ways around their parents. It also explores in graphic detail the way games use dark psychology to capture the young minds. The project was commissioned by the Marlowe Theatre.
The Libertines - Playfilm (2019)
Director: Kat Philippou-CurtisInspired by Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt, the Libertines takes place in 2063, after the internet imploded and was re-invented and regulated. The cause being the computer game ‘Liberti’ that took the young by storm back in 2025, and offered money to the players who would reach unprecedented levels of disobedience and cruelty against their parents. Soon the ‘Libertines’ are redefining greed and freedom and as a result the first parental murder takes place, rewarding the gamer with £2million. The play explores brain hacking and the degree of subconscious manipulation of children, as gaming addiction clinics are very real and Momo, Deleted and Blue Whale challenges have already led to suicides.The LIBERTINES represent debauched, moral-free individuals, whose obsessive pleasure in gaming, monetary greed and instant unregulated power has resulted in the breakdown of the family/school unit and consequently led to total social anarchy. The playfilm uses Projections and filmic sequences with VFX to portray the birth of the game, the brain altering chemistry, hacking and addiction. It also showcases real addicts and their threats and destructive ways around their parents. It also explores in graphic detail the way games use dark psychology to capture the young minds. The project was commissioned by the Marlowe Theatre.
- Distributor: Marlowe Theatre
- Production Company: Inventome / Marlowe Theatre
- Genre: Drama
- Link: https://vimeo.com/370821040
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Award-winning, critically acclaimed playfilm about a peculiar love affair, shown through the 'consciousness' of stage and the 'subconsciousness' of film. Premiered at the Festival of New Works, UKC. Recipient of the Arts and Humanities Research Board Award. Successful 3 week run at the Greenwich Playhouse. The Playfilm - a term coined by Kat, offers a unique theatrical experience which involves two layers of the same story. Sometimes the layers conflict, other times they agree, often they have a dialogue that pushes the narrative forward and allows the audience to either be behind or ahead of the plot. The interaction is often comical and politically incorrect. The London playfilm contained a 50 minute sequence which was projected in a key position on the stage and appeared and disappeared at will. Edited either to music or to specifically interact with the action on stage, it provided a totally enjoyable, immersive and multilayered view of the story. Brit Award Winner Producer Charlie Andrew and his band the Laurel Collective have lend their songs to the 50 min film sequence as did renowned singer/songwriter Richard Navarro.
Cockroach Waltz - Playfilm (2006)
Director: Kat Philippou-CurtisAward-winning, critically acclaimed playfilm about a peculiar love affair, shown through the 'consciousness' of stage and the 'subconsciousness' of film. Premiered at the Festival of New Works, UKC. Recipient of the Arts and Humanities Research Board Award. Successful 3 week run at the Greenwich Playhouse. The Playfilm - a term coined by Kat, offers a unique theatrical experience which involves two layers of the same story. Sometimes the layers conflict, other times they agree, often they have a dialogue that pushes the narrative forward and allows the audience to either be behind or ahead of the plot. The interaction is often comical and politically incorrect. The London playfilm contained a 50 minute sequence which was projected in a key position on the stage and appeared and disappeared at will. Edited either to music or to specifically interact with the action on stage, it provided a totally enjoyable, immersive and multilayered view of the story. Brit Award Winner Producer Charlie Andrew and his band the Laurel Collective have lend their songs to the 50 min film sequence as did renowned singer/songwriter Richard Navarro.
- Distributor: Greenwich Playhouse
- Production Company: Inventome
- Awards: Arts and Humanities Research Board (2005)
- Genre: Drama
- Link: https://vimeo.com/223737490
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This is not just a Playground Arena. This is a battle for survival. Touching tale or 5 mothers in a state primary school, mistreated and shunned by the prim & proper PTA for their unconventional lifestyle. A bitchfest of friendship, family life, love and playground politics filmed from two different social angles: the British stiff Upper lip and the Loose lip. Web series commissioned by SeeSaw channel.
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FILF is a drama/comedy centred around a single father plunged into a woman-dominated microcosm. Set in a small English town the series follows the trials of Harry and his son Finn as Harry rebuilds his life following a particularly nasty divorce. Things get complicated when his ex arrives in town seeking revenge and custody. Harry's world begins to crumble. The only way to stand his ground and protect his name is by utilising his incredible yet devious IT skills. Soon the drama and hypocrisy of that society is revealed by 'real-life online clips posted on social media' exposing the lies, fears, secrets and insecurities of the town's main players and the effect they have on Harry's family. The series blurs the line between reality TV , drama and actuality by using current online platforms to further the narrative plot and push the story-telling to another level.
Filf (2010)
Director: Kat Philippou-CurtisFILF is a drama/comedy centred around a single father plunged into a woman-dominated microcosm. Set in a small English town the series follows the trials of Harry and his son Finn as Harry rebuilds his life following a particularly nasty divorce. Things get complicated when his ex arrives in town seeking revenge and custody. Harry's world begins to crumble. The only way to stand his ground and protect his name is by utilising his incredible yet devious IT skills. Soon the drama and hypocrisy of that society is revealed by 'real-life online clips posted on social media' exposing the lies, fears, secrets and insecurities of the town's main players and the effect they have on Harry's family. The series blurs the line between reality TV , drama and actuality by using current online platforms to further the narrative plot and push the story-telling to another level.
- Distributor: Web TV
- Production Company: Inventome / Collider
- Genre: Drama
- Link: https://vimeo.com/223450435
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Alternative rock band Sylvette’s first music video deals with the theme of nature destruction and greed. The haunting lyrics and melodies written, produced and sang by Charlie Sinclair only deserved a cinematic, equally haunted platform. The song hit 20,000 like on Facebook and You tube within 15 hours of its release and has received many accolades ever since.
Sylvette (2016)
Director: Kat Philippou-CurtisAlternative rock band Sylvette’s first music video deals with the theme of nature destruction and greed. The haunting lyrics and melodies written, produced and sang by Charlie Sinclair only deserved a cinematic, equally haunted platform. The song hit 20,000 like on Facebook and You tube within 15 hours of its release and has received many accolades ever since.
- Production Company: inventome
- Genre: Artist Film
- Link: https://vimeo.com/199530033