Irving Park

Irving Park

21st TDF: World Premiere

Irving Park is the story of four gay men in their 60s who live together in Chicago, exploring an unconventional lifestyle of master/slave relationships. A family based on free choice and the consent to lose one’s personal freedom in favor of the desire of the Other.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Panayotis Evangelidis
Cinematography: Panayotis Evangelidis
Editing: Araceli Lemos
Sound: Panayotis Papagiannopoulos
Actors: Joe Laiacona aka Jack Rinella, Patrick Herlihy, Lynn Schronick, Guy Jones, Craig Rude
Producers: Panayotis Evangelidis, Araceli Lemos
Co-production: ERT
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 117΄
Contact: Panayotis Evangelidis, keinosuke01@yahoo.com, Araceli Lemos, aracelianaslemos@gmail.com

Panayotis Evangelidis

Panayotis Evangelidis was born in Athens, Greece, where he lives and works. Among others, he is a film director, screenwriter, writer, literary translator, and traveler. He has published four novels, written in Greek, and he translates mainly from Japanese and Spanish. He occasionally lectures on Japanese art, poetry, and culture. He has written scripts for several contemporary Greek films, including True Life, Strella, and Xenia, in collaboration with their director Panos H. Koutras. He primarily makes human-centered observational documentaries: Portraits of different people, films that are usually set in rooms behind closed doors but unravel in dialogue with open-minded and open-hearted individuals.

Filmography

2008 Chip & Ovi (short)
2011 Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name (short)
2011 The Life and Death of Celso Junior 2011 Summer Romance
2011 Afternoon siesta
2013 They Glow in the Dark
2015 Pure Life
2019 Irving Park
2022 Tilos Wedding (doc)
2022 Sibylla
2023 A Portrait of the Collector as a Mature Man (short)
2024 Sylvia Robyn