HAOS FILM

HAOS Film was founded in 1997 in Austin,TX by director Athina Rachel Tsangari and writer/editor Matt Johnson, while developing the feature film The Slow Business of Going (2001). HAOS relocated to Greece in 2002 when Athina was invited by Dimitris Papaioannou to direct and produce the video and laser projections for the Athens 2004 Olympic Ceremonies. Since 2004, HAOS has worked widely as a production company and post-production facility for editing and animation. In 2008 Maria Hatzakou joined HAOS as a procuder on all HAOS’ projects. Production highlights include Reflections (conceived and directed by A.R. Tsangari), a large-scale animated outdoor projection show commissioned for the new Acropolis Museum opening (2009), and Yorgos Lanthimos’ films: Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009, Un Certain Regard prizewinner - Cannes, 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award® finalist), and Alps (2011, Osella for Best Screenplay - Venice Film Festival). In 2010, HAOS produced Attenberg (Coppa Volpi - 2010 Venice Film Festival, Greece’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards®) written and directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari

HAOS worked with other notable directors too: It co-produced Bryan Poyser’s Lovers of Hate (US Dramatic Competition- Sundance 2011, finalist for the Independent Spirit Awards’ John Cassavetes Prize), and Mike Ott’s sophomore feature Pearblossom Hwy (Vienna IFF, Rotterdam FF 2013). In 2012 Athina Tsangari was commissioned by the art collector Dakis Joannou and the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art to produce and curate the 2012 edition of the DesteFashionCollection. Her 3D installation The Capsule was exhibited at Barneys New York and the short film The Capsule had its world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2012, to critical acclaim. In Summer 2012, Athina Rachel Tsangari was a co-producer of Richard Linklater's Before Midnight (Sundance 2013, 63rd Berlinale) starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. HAOS acted as the production services company for the ambitious Greek-American production, shot entirely in Messinia, Greece.

In 2013, HAOS co-produced Lustlands, the first feature by Aris & Lakis Ionas, of the art collective The Callas and the film History Zero by the artist and film director Stefanos Tsivopoulos, commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports to represent Greece in the upcoming 2013 Venice Biennale. Currently HAOS is co-producing the first feature by the young writer-director Micah Maggee Petting Zoo. Its delegate producer is German company The Match Factory. It is co-funded by Berlin’s Medienboard fund, and it is currently in post-production. HAOS is in ongoing development of the new film by Athina Rachel Tsangari Duncharon (ARTE France Cinéma Award - CineMart 2012), a science fiction comedy written by Matt Johnson & A.R. Tsangari.

FACILITY

The HAOS office in central Athens has two Mac Pro 8-core workstations running Final Cut Pro, Avid, After Effects and other software, with shared RAID storage for collaborative editing and display hardware supporting up to 2K film resolutions.