At a time when I am far more fragile and devastated than I previously was this summer, I am so pleased and honored to announce some good news! "The Messenger Hermes Remembers" has been Officially Selected by the Manhattan International Film Festival.

https://filmfreeway.com/InternationalFilmFestivalManhattan
Luis Pedron
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Greetings Algis Kemezys(Director)
re: short film "The Messenger"

re: Acceptance Letter to the International Film Festival Manhattan NYC

Congratulations! We are excited to invite your film to the International Film Festival Manhattan NYC 2019
This letter serves as an acceptance letter for your film to our film
festival this year. Please read through the following instructions as we all need to
prepare for the festival coming up this October 16 to 20, 2019.
NOTE: Due to budget constraints, please note that our festival do not fly nor hotel our filmmakers. * In the coming days we will be sending you the full schedule,

The Messenger Hermes Remembers wins Silver Hattie @ Anaheim Film Fest 2019

My Cinco de Mayo will never be the same! At 5 o'clock this afternoon, when I was checking my email, I got the most unexpected email from @anaheimfilmfest saying I have been chosen as an award winner at The Anaheim Film Festival. I thought the Festival was over so it came as quite a surprise.Thanks again and again to Byron Ayanoglu & Guthrie Lowe and Paul William Roberts! Anaheim is home to Walt Disney World so I am pretty thrilled!

Hermes in Anaheim Film Festival

Byron Ayanoglu and I are so pleased to know "The Messenger Hermes Remembers" received a Semi-Finalist Laurel from the Anaheim Film Festival, 2019 — with Byron Ayanoglu, Algis Thomas Kemezys and our fabulous composer  Guthrie Lowe.

The Messenger Hermes Remembers is semi Finalist @ European Cinematography Awards, Amsterdam , Netherlands

Holy Cow! Byron Ayanoglu & I just got an email saying I am a Semi Finalist in The European Cinematography Awards: AMSTERDAM, Netherlands An Official IMDb Award Listing Qualifier! Boy ;-) does this make me feel Thankful and Respectful that I am managing to make a small scratch someplace and the Universe is responding. Thanks again BiG Time for everyones help and encouragements because this allowed me to keep pursuing my Dream. Dear Algis, Congratulations! - You are a Semi-Finalist. It means you can use Festival Laurels for your promotional purposes: https://lnkd.in/dzefJpH The public announcement of full winners list: http://europe.cawards.org/ https://lnkd.in/dVuS7Kb Again, congratulations! We look forward to viewing your next film. Warm Regards, European Cinematography AWARDS AMSTERDAM, Netherlands https://lnkd.in/dzWfcGg

The Messenger Hermes Remembers wins Best International Short Film Award.

Producer Byron Ayanoglu and I are so appreciative for all the Film Festivals that have shown our movie.
We also want to send a BIG Thanks with  Love to t Jon, Peter & Eric  at The Golden State Film Festival, in Hollywood, California for this Award. You folks really rock! Love you to bits!

"The Messenger Hermes Remembers" plays in 2 Film Festivals for March 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Messenger Hermes Remembers, a short film

by Algis Kemezys, screens internationally

Byron Ayanoglu's production of Algis Kemezys' film THE MESSENGER HERMES REMEMBERS is being screened twice in film-fests during March. It will be shown in Venice at the First International Hermetic Film Festival on the 7th of March as part of a double-bill gala opening night; and again on March 26th at the TLC Chinese Theater in Hollywood as an official selection of the Golden State Film Festival. The film, which was shot in multiple locations, from Greece to India to Mexico, as well as at home-base in the Laurentians, stars Algis himself, Nina Korey and Paul William Roberts.

FHIF Hermes is Algis's fifth film. All of his previous work has earned laurels world-wide. His documentaries, Mimetoliths and Master-Class with Walter Lassally were extensively shown and had distribution deals. Previous to film-making, Algis had notable success as a fine-art photographer with exhibitions in major galleries in New York City, Mumbai, Athens and across Canada, his home base. It all started when he was hired to assist photographic doyenne Berenice Abbott chronicle and print her life's work for a retrospective, when she was eighty and he, twenty one.

The twenty-four minute Hermes, already an official selection of this year's festivals in Melbourne, Barcelona, Sicily, Rome and Pune is a fanciful musing on the life and times of the messenger of the gods. Now old, but as always seeking the approval of his Olympian father Zeus, he wields his caduceus to recapture his own precocious youth, when he was testing the limits of his powers and yearning for eternal love -- with himself.

Filmed in many locations around the globe, most stunningly in the Hellenistic temples and mystical antiquities of Greece and Aegean Turkey, the story weaves in and out of the past and the present, to lead the viewer on a delightful voyage into the origins of myth.

A distinguished cast, headed by the majestic Paul William Roberts, animates the story with entertaining, sure-footed performances.

Contact:  algis.kemezys@gmail.com , 

or by phone:  52-1-322-205-9994 (in Mexico)

This is the link to the trailer: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y046hXSGoGc

Thank you for your attention.

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The Messenger Hermes Remembers

The current poster for The Messenger Hermes Remembers.