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‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’ Director on Her 7-Year Journey With the Film: “The Most Pure, Personal Experience of My Life”
[This story contains spoilers from Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.]
For Aitch Alberto, bringing Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s beloved 2012 queer coming-of-age novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe to the big screen was an expansive experience.
Serving as both its writer and director, adapting the story for the screen took seven years and spanned her transition — an experience, like that of her own characters, rife with the kind of poetic and painful introspection that comes with discovering oneself.
Through that process, she had a heavy-hitting producing team behind her, including Eugenio Derbez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dylan Sellers, Chris Parker and Ben Odell, as well as Valerie Stadler of Big Swing Productions, a company Stadler co-founded with Meredith Bagby and Kyra Sedgwick.
Set in El Paso beginning in 1987, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe follows Aristotle Mendoza (Max Pelayo) and Dante Quintana (Reese Gonzales), two loners who have a chance meeting at a public pool. When Dante o
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Behind the Camera with Cinematographer Akis Konstantakopoulos
Akis Konstantakopoulos is a Los Angeles based Director of Photography who left his hometown in Greece and moved to the United States at the age of 17 to study the art of Cinematography. He graduated with honors in Visual Studies from Harvard University before attending the American Film Institute (AFI) for a Masters in Cinematography. While still at AFI, Akis served as a 2nd Unit DP for Oscar-nominated Phedon Papamichael on two films.
Akis has served as the DP on over 20 feature films of varying production sizes and has photographed such notable actors as Alan Arkin, Nick Nolte, Cleau Duvall, Malcolm McDowell, Ving Rhames, Jane Seymour to name a few. His work has been shown theatrically around the nation; on major TV networks and at various film festivals (Cannes, Tribeca, SXSW) across the world. His cinematography has also garnered a number of awards at film festivals and praise from publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and indieWIRE.
At first look Akis Konstnakopoulos impresses us with his education— a graduate of Harvard University and the world famous American Film Institute with a Masters in Cinematography. That was just the beginning as he is the man behind the camera for countless commercial
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