Giorgos Karnavas is a little jet-lagged, but its been for the worthiest of causes.
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But, as Karnavas knows too well, nothing good comes easy.
Sometimes I dont know how we did it, he recalls with a smile.
(L-R) Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Ioanna Stais and Giorgos KarnavasHeretic
It premiered as the opening-night film at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and would unite Karnavas with Kontrovrakis.
They hired Ioanna Stais to head up Heretic Sales andrecently made the longtime exec partner in the company.
Thats why we wanted to move into cinema, he says.
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Everybody was helping each other out, which was great.
But there was also a sense that this was something that couldnt last forever.
Hes hopeful that companies like his are all able to generate what they need to generate.
So, for us to come up with new ideas on financing is actually very interesting.
Every time we follow this path, weve been extremely successful.
We like to support the people we want to be with the people we understand.
We keep it very small up to six films a year for sales and around four for production.
This is extremely important.
