Lemon is a theatre collective created by actor, pianist, and performer Melachrinos Velentzas together with actor Giorgos Drivas.
The two artists stage the story of the pianist 1900—from the original text by Alessandro Baricco—in the most unexpected corners of Greece: on drifting vessels and shipwrecks, on beaches and breakwaters, in village squares, within a lemon grove, and in abandoned places where theatre takes root for the very first time.
For Lemon, every performance is singular—each one adding another “lemon” to the crate of this independent journey.
With the vision that “theatre exists wherever there are spectators,” Lemon embraces the cultural pulse of each location, weaving connections across the shared map of our collective imagination.
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Matteo Pizzocaro is a Greek-Italian filmmaker. He studied film at Edinburgh Napier University (Screen Academy of Scotland, BA, with Honors) and in Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Film Department. He is based in Athens. He is the co-owner of Happyant Productions, focusing on documentaries and short films. He is currently working on his first feature film.
His short films have been presented at the Drama International Short Film Festival (Greece) the Athens International Film Festival (Greece), the Olympia Film Festival for children and young people (Greece), Microμ (Greece), Clit (Portugal), the International Silk Road Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey) and the San Francisco Greek Film Festival (USA). His short films include “Just a thought”, “The Thief”, “Next Stop” and “Hi There”. He films in development include “Canary”, “Sono un Ribelle Mamma” and “Better Days are Coming”. He is currently working on his first feature film.
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