Sympatheia is a film about a teenage girl and her younger brother trapped in a house with an invisible monster that hates electric sound as a storm rolls in. They are forced into a race against time and the weather to figure out how to defeat the monster.
Sympatheia is about humanity. How we think, how we make decisions, how we behave, and most importantly: why.
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft
The world of Sympatheia is built on human’s inherent fear of the unknown and the anxiety that it provokes. The nature of our film’s reality explores how people are naturally afraid of anything that we fail to fully understand and is so unpredictable, the unsettledness of running but not knowing what from.
Director: Elena Zacharaki (el.zacharakis@gmail.com)
Producer: Heidi Lau (zllheidi@gmail.com)
Writer: Jams Ingham (jingham9@gmail.com)
1st AD: Taylor Caddick (taylorcaddi@gmail.com)
Director of Photography: Nikitas Zacharakis (ni.zacharakis@gmail.com)
Gaffer: Sam Byham (samuelbyham@gmail.com)
1st AC: Nojus Setkauskas (nojus.set@gmail.com)
2nd AC: Rafael Felipe Freitas Ignacio (rafaelfelipefreitas@hotmail.com)
Spark: Christopher Cox (chrisecox@protonmail.com)
Script Supervisor: Jessica Lipinski (dancenspin@gmail.com)
Sound Recordist & Designer: Toby Cole (tobycole02@googlemail.com)
Boom Operator: Gabriel Nejah (gabrielmakesfilms@gmail.com)
Production Designer: Xinyu Hu (572734093@qq.com)
Art Director: Saffron Mamujee (saffronmamujee@gmail.com)
Art Department Runner: Qingyue Chen (qingyuechen912@gmail.com)
Art Department Runner: Oliver Bruce (2105327@students.ucreative.ac.uk)
Editor: Ewan Read (ewanread@hotmail.com)
Colourist & Assistant Editor: Dan Lewis (daniel.lewis356@outlook.com)
Music Composer: Martin Heidenreich (martin@martinheidenreichmusic.com)
Stunt Coordinator: Ronin Traynor
Concept and Storyboard Artist: Liina Foster
Concept and Storyboard Artist: Esther Thomas
Poster Designer: Jack Dunlop
Set Photographer: James Bright
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