Avant-Drag!
Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Marissa Triantafyllidou, Veronique Tromokratisch, Kangela Tromokratisch, Lala Kolopi, ER Libido, Aurora Paola Morado, Thanasis McMorait, Parakatyanova, SerGay Parakatyanov, SerGay Parakatyanov, Lia Smaragda, Cruella Tromokratisch, Zak Kostopoulos
Crew: Fil Ieropoulos (Director), Foivos Dousos (Producer), Foivos Dousos (Writer), Spyros Patsouras (Assistant Director), Christos Adrianopoulos (Assistant Director)