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George, a greedy, selfish student, has become a nightmare to his fellow flatmates. Assigned the task of finding a new fridge to replace the apartment's dysfunctional one, George discovers an old fridge in a deserted alleyway. George pockets his flatmates' money and takes it home. From that day on, strange things start happening to George. The fridge is about to teach him a lesson.
THE FRIDGE
DIRECTORS STATEMENT
Growing up in the 80s and loving the movies, it is fair to say I was practically raised on Steven Spielberg. His movies were the reason I got into filmmaking as they had, and still have, a profound impact on me.
With The Fridge I wanted to pay homage to the 80s fantasy movie. I knew I wanted to shoot the movie using all kinds of storytelling tricks movies like this require, so it was very important to me that we shot on set. Although it is extremely rare for films to be shot on sets in Greece the producers stood by me despite our small budget, so Simon Pickup, our production designer, built the set pretty much single-handedly in a week.
I also knew that 50% of this story would be told through sound so our sound editor, Tasos Katsaris, meticulously sound designed the movie, re-recording every single sound-effect and line of dialogue in the movie. Tasos also composed a truly great score, awesome and deliciously dark, constantly toying with the audience while seamlessly completing my shots. Without Tasos, The Fridge would be half a short.
Above all, I wanted to make an entertaining movie, I wanted people to watch it and have fun just like I did watching those Spielberg classics in the 80s
GEORGE SIOUGAS
BIOGRAPHY
George was born in Athens, Greece (1975). He studied at the London International Film School where he made 5 short films which competed in more than 80 festivals worldwide and won 5 Grand Prixs and 16 other awards in total.
Upon graduating, George returned to Greece and started out directing commercials. He also directed his 6th short, The Fridge, which won 8 international awards (including the Tribeca Film Festival & The Hollywood Film Festival) and was theatrically released in Greece.
In 2003 George directed Close Your Eyes (Klise Ta Matia), a prime-time TV series (17 episodes, 45 minutes each for Mega Channel). The series was one of the most popular in the history of Greek TV, with ratings up to 43.7%. For this series, George won Best Director at the 2004 TV Awards.
In 2004 he directed his second prime-time TV series (20 episodes, 45 minutes each for Mega Channel), Suddenely (Etsi Ksafnika), which also reached the No 1 spot at 34.4% (November 8th 2004).
George is now in pre-production for ROBBIE & VOULA, a 90 minute TV-movie for Mega Channel due to lens in May 2005. He is also in talks for his debut feature which he hopes to shoot in the summer of 2006.
George currently lives in Athens, Greece.
THE FRIDGE CREDITS
PRINCIPAL CREW
Written & Directed by: GEORGE SIOUGAS
Produced by : DESPINA MOUZAKI & HARIS PADOUVAS
Music by : ANASTASIOS KATSARIS
Director of Photography: ARGIRIS THEOS
Production Designer : SIMON PICKUP
Edited by : MARIA KOUNAVI & GEORGE SIOUGAS &
GIANNIS CHALKIADAKIS
Sound Editor : ANASTASIOS KATSARIS
Visual Effects Supervisor: PHILIPPOS MARMOUTAS
CAST
George : GEORGE PYRPASOPOULOS
Dia : VALIA PATSIOU
Mary : IOANNA AVGERINOU
Aristidis : ANDONIS TOUNDAS
Guest Star : GIANNIS BOSTANTZOGLOU
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