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Filmmaker (He/Him)🪩Immigrant 🇬🇷➡️🇺🇸 My films play with the nature of reality: Questioning it, toying with it & molding it in unexpected ways 👉 https://youtube.com/yanniszafeiriou 👈 I have a thing for penguins, but it’s strictly platonic❤️ www.yanzaf.com

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Dec 8

If you’re a film critic or reviewer who likes #AbsurdistComedy & #Satire, please take a look at the trailer of my #DebutFeatureFilm and let me know if you’d like to review the full 100min film. Would love to give you a private screener! We’re doing festival submissions 😊

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Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story (Trailer)

YouTube video by Flying Penguin Productions

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 1d

HELLO UNIVERSE!

We are GAGGED to announce that “NAMAS DEI: THE TUCKER J. JAMES STORY” will have its LOS ANGELES PREMIERE at the amazing “LA QUEER FILM FEST”. Only a few features were selected and we are amongst the lucky chosen ones. #NamasDei 🙏 #blessed ❤️

Tix: filmfreeway.com/LAQUEERFILMF...

At the top of the image there are the laurels and title of LA Queer Film Fest Official Selection.

In the middle of the image is a still photo from the film where two male actors are in close up, looking at each other and smiling in close proximity.

Text at the bottom of the image: Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story, Los Angeles Premiere, Sunday, November 16th, @6:30pm Let Live Theatre

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 2d

What a bunch of BS. My first Trek as a child (the devil in the dark) I saw because my mom was watching it. And at 19, I became a Trekkie because of my roommate, yes, a woman. 🖖

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 2d

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would.

Artemis: Of course she drives a Subaru, that’s the most sensible choice in that off-road forest she lives in.

Poltergeist Halloweezou 🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 2d

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would.

Zeus: alpha male.

Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 2d

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.

Arachne: of course the woke mind cannot comprehend somebody being proud of her work

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 11d

Reply with an image you can hear

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you ❤️

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you!! We’re so happy 😃

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 18d

We won 😃❤️

🥇The DIRECTOR’S CHOICE “recognizing outstanding work that demonstrated exceptional storytelling, artistic vision, or cultural significance”.

🥇The AUDIENCE FAVORITE “for films that resonated strongly with viewers for their creativity, authenticity, and emotional impact”.

#NamasDei 🙏

Actors Josh Allen Goldman and Noelle Messier in the roles of Tucker J. James and Erin McMichaels (from the movie Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story) are shown in two production stills, smiling, high-fiving and generally celebrating. In the middle, two laurels from the Cinema Diverse Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival showcase two awards that the movie won: The Director’s Choice and The Audience Favorite.

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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 19d

From the making of THE HUNGER (1983): Cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt tries to set up a shot of David Bowie as the vampire John Blaylock.

Photographer unknown.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 22d

No disrespect to Jim Henson but I don’t feel like there really are that many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 24d

I feel attacked.

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · 25d

*gasp*

A film still from the film “Carnival of Souls”. A blond woman driving a car sees her reflection in the window but also the reflection of a scary man. She gasps.

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 26

“Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story” has been officially released into the wild ❤️

Two guys wearing matching shirts stand smiling in front of the Palm Springs Cultural Centre during Cinema Diverse. They hold a foam board poster of the same artwork that’s on their shirts.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · Sep 20

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 19

Now that I think about it and try to recall, I think Cypriots may actually be adding more of that n sound before κ which would definitely make it sound more like a g. But not Greeks. Unless we’re counting some remote local Greek dialects in which case all bets are off 😂

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Garrick Dion @garrickd.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 19

Though some Greeks pronounce even a little bit of that n when they say Αγγλικά.

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 19

Happily! Maybe we should do a video call some time! I live in LA timezone! :)

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 19

Not sure what to tell ya. I’m a native Greek speaker of 49 years. All native Greeks I know (including myself), pronounce κ like in cooper. And γκ or γγ like in glory. Funnily enough, both sounds exist in the Greek word for English which is Αγγλικά (ah-glee-KAH). Close-ish to Anglican (minus the n).

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 19

I think you may be confusing κ with γκ. Γκ sounds like g and κ… well… like k. That’s how it sounds in modern Greek. Not sure about how it might have been pronounced differently in Ancient Greek, but then again nobody really truly knows that.

Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 19

BTW in Modern Greek, the kappa in Katavasis (descent) is pronounced Kah, not Gha. The K sound is a clear sharp K.

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 12

I wore watches until my early twenties. Used to take them off during my summer holidays, which allowed me to one day notice I was somewhat less stressed while not having one on my wrist. That’s when I stopped wearing them entirely. Much less stress since then (though not zero, never zero 😬)

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Sep 11

It's not grey hair in my beard. It's mithril.

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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫 @penguinyz.bsky.social · Sep 7

#Twinless is such a beautiful, profound movie, with a ton of heart break and lots of surprise humour ❤️ Go watch it, YESTERDAY 🤩

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𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · Sep 6

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