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Midnight Blues

An off-the-grid living, disgruntled writer falls in love with a blue-eyed woman he meets at a diner at midnight not knowing that she’s the fiancé of a criminal boss.

  • Iannis Aliferis
    Writer
    Only Love Matters
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama
  • Number of Pages:
    95
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Santa Monica International Filmmaker Awards
    Santa Monica, USA
    August 31, 2023
    Semi-Finalist/Best Unproduced Script
  • Hollywood Gold Awards
    Los Angeles, USA
    August 27, 2023
    Official Selection/Feature Script
  • Vesuvius International Film Fest
    Campania, Italy
    September 2, 2023
    Official Selection/Best Script (unproduced work)
  • Chicago Script Awards
    Chicago, USA
    September 21, 2023
    Official Selection/Best Romantic Screenplay
  • Robinson Film Awards
    Campania, Italy
    April 7, 2024
    Semi-Finalist/Feature Script
  • Oakland Film Festival
    Oakland, USA
    December 14, 2023
    Semi-Finalist/Best Unproduced Script
Writer Biography - Iannis Aliferis

Iannis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His romantic dramedy script "Only Loves Matters" won a Gold Award for Original Screenplay from the Hollywood Gold Awards, during the film’s successful festival run, while his noir thriller screenplay “Samantha Rutledge P.I, A Killer Case” was a Finalist at the Manhattan Film Festival and his romantic action comedy script “Valentina, Relationship Killer” won Best Unproduced Screenplay at the Berlin International Art Film Festival. Prior to that, his dramedy screenplay "Mary and Dionysus" was a Semi-Finalist at the Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Competition, and his short film "Headz" won a Gold Lion Award at the London Film Awards. When not writing screenplays or making films, he scribes short stories and comic books. He’s a sucker for rakomelo, dark chocolate, and honey. Finally, he's a firm believer that humankind was at its best during the thousands of years of hunting and gathering but knows that, unfortunately, he wouldn't last two days alone in the wilderness.

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Writer Statement

It started with a vision, a visual, with a simple scene…
It is a stormy night and a man is scribbling feverishly into his notebook in a diner when the clock strikes midnight and a woman with striking blue eyes comes in. They talk, bunter, and flirt when suddenly, men and women in suits rush in and take her away, not with force but with a certain familiarity – as if it is a play enacted many times already. Before she departs, the woman tells the distraught man to come and see her sing, that is the only clue he’s given, that's all he has to go by if he wants to see her again.
The above call to adventure or inciting incident reads like a fairytale and that is a certain quality to Midnight Blues, it is rather like a modern romantic fable, and like most such tales of yesteryear, in their original form, the ending might not be a happily ever after for our protagonists. Midnight Blues is also part noir, in its mood, what with the use of fluorescent billboard lighting, melancholic vibe, the crime subgenre, and with the night itself being a character all its own.
At its heart though, it is a classic romance, a forbidden one at that, and is it not true that they tend to make for the most memorable ones?