Chip & Ovi

Chip & Ovi

Chip and Ovi met in an orphanage near the city of Kluj-Napoca in Romania when they were teenagers. Ovi was born with disabilities in his arms and Chip has a severely damaged leg from polio. They’ve been together for about a year and a half trying to make it, facing poverty and social discrimination, and currying their dreams and their inner demons.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Panayotis Evangelidis
Script: Panayotis Evangelidis
Cinematography: Panayotis Evangelidis
Editing: Gogo Bembelou
Producers: Amanda Livanou
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2008
Duration: 45'
Contact: Neda Film (Amanda Livanou, info@nedafilm.gr)

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