Best Scene Screenplay – EPIPHANY, by Despina Moraitou

Watch the July 2016 Winning Best Scene Screenplay

EPIPHANY, by Despina Moraitou

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
NUMBER 2 – Dan Cristofori
CASSANDRA – Viktoria Napolenova
ALEXANDROS – Michael Gaty
MEGAS – Mark Boutros
ORESTIS – David Occhipinti
CASSIE – Kiran Friesen
RITA – Judy Thrush

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, Thriller

Based on the Greek Christmas myth of the Kalikantzari

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your screenplay about?

Epiphany is a screenplay based on the Greek myth of the Christmas Kalikantzari, a story grandmothers tell their grandchildren all over Greece during the holidays.

The myth is pretty simple.

Greek legend has it that, all year long, the Kalikantzari, impish demons of the
underworld, saw the Tree of Life that holds the earth on its trunk aiming to end our
world. On Christmas, thinking the Tree is cut, they travel up to earth to celebrate,