MURPHY’S LAW Wows the Crowd on Opening Night at New York Greek Film Expo

PRESS RELEASE — ASTORIA, New York – October 3, 2025 – The Hellenic Film Society USA (HFS) opened the New York Greek Film Expo 2025 connected October 2 astatine the Directors Guild Theater successful Manhattan with a sold-out reception and near-capacity assemblage for the US premiere of MURPHY’S LAW. Director Angelos Frantzis and pb actors Katia Goulioni and Andreas Konstantinou participated successful an assemblage Q&A aft the film.

At a peculiar reception anterior to the screening, filmgoers had the accidental to conscionable visiting filmmakers and actors from Greece, who volition contiguous their movies passim the Expo.

(L-to-R) Following the screening of MURPHY’S LAW connected Opening nighttime astatine the New York Greek Film Expo, Director Angelos Frantzis, Lead Actors Andreas Konstantinou and Katia Goulioni, on with Hellenic Film Society President Maria C. Miles enactment successful an assemblage Q&A. IMAGE: ANASTASSIOS MENTIS / MENTIS STUDIO

MURPHY’S LAW, a comedy, screened for the archetypal clip successful the US. Starring Katia Goulioni and Andreas Konstantinou, 2 of Greece’s astir celebrated actors today, the movie follows Mary Alice (Goulioni), a failed and profoundly conflicted histrion longing for large roles. After a superior mishap connected her 40th birthday, she’s thrust her into an alternate world wherever she indispensable play the parts that could person been hers had she made antithetic choices successful life. The producers notation to it arsenic a “psychoanalytic screwball comedy.”

The assemblage applauds MURPHY’S LAW, the Opening Night screening astatine New York Greek Film Expo 2025. IMAGE: ANASTASSIOS MENTIS / MENTIS STUDIO

The movie besides stars Elizabeth Bitouni, Thanos Tokakis, Constantine Makroulakis, Vangelio Andreadaki, Daphne Alexander, and Nikos Kouros.

Immediately following, HFS president Maria C. Miles welcomed the manager and actors connected signifier for an assemblage Q&A. Goulioni and Konstantinou remarked astir moving unneurotic for the 3rd time, past they, on with Frantzis, spoke astir the accumulation of the movie earlier taking questions from the audience.

Director Angelos Frantzis and Lead Actors Katia Goulioni and Andreas Konstantinou are interviewed by a newsman up of the US premiere of their film, MURPHY’S LAW, connected Opening Night astatine New York Greek Film Expo 2025. IMAGE: ANASTASSIOS MENTIS / MENTIS STUDIO

Also successful attendance were Consul General of Greece successful New York Iphigenia Kanara, Consul General of Cyprus successful New York Kyriakos Pogiatzis, and Greek National Tourism Organization Director Konstantinos Charokopos, among others.

Screenings continued passim the play astatine the Village East Cinema successful Manhattan.

Greek stars connected the Red Carpet. Director Angelos Frantzis; Actors Katia Goulioni, Andreas Konstantinou (MURPHY’S LAW), and Angeliki Papoulia (ARCADIA); Director Vladimir Subotic (UTOPOLIS) astatine New York Greek Film Expo 2025 Opening Night. IMAGE: ANASTASSIOS MENTIS / MENTIS STUDIO

On October 7-8, the Expo moves to the Barrymore Film Center successful Fort Lee, NJ; past concludes October 10-12 with a peculiar retrospective of the enactment of maestro filmmaker Pantelis Voulgaris astatine Museum of the Moving Image successful Astoria.

For implicit schedules, locations, and tickets sojourn www.hellenicfilmsociety.org.

New York Greek Film Expo runs October 2-12 successful theaters successful the New York metro area

About the Hellenic Film Society

The Hellenic Film Society is simply a 501(c)(3) non-profit enactment dedicated to promoting Greek cinema and sharing the richness of Greek films with American audiences. Based successful Astoria, NY, HFS presents an array of diagnostic films, documentaries, and shorts by Greek filmmakers and those of Greek descent, arsenic good arsenic works that item the cultures of Greece and Cyprus.

In summation to its yearly New York Greek Film Expo, a Greek movie festival for all New Yorkers, the Society is known for its ongoing Always connected Sunday monthly movie series, presented successful collaboration with the prestigious Museum of the Moving Image. Additionally, the enactment partners with different salient movie festivals crossed the United States, including the Chicago Greek Film Expo, the South Florida Greek Film Festival, and the Atlanta Greek Film Expo.

The Kallinikeion Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) are the pb supporters of the Hellenic Film Society. Additional enactment is provided by Microsoft, Greek National Tourism Organization, New York State Council connected the Arts, the New York City Council, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, and Antenna Satellite TV.

For much information, to volunteer, oregon to enactment our mission, sojourn www.hellenicfilmsociety.org.

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Maria A. Karamitsos

Maria A. Karamitsos is simply a journalist, author, and poet. She's the laminitis & erstwhile publisher/editor of WindyCity Greek mag and erstwhile subordinate exertion & elder writer for The Greek Star newspaper. Maria besides contributes to NEO mag and TripFiction. Her enactment has been published successful The Magic of Us-A Moms Who Write Poetry Anthology, The Pen Poetry Magazine, Voices of Hellenism Literary Journal, Highland Park Poetry, GreekCircle magazine, The National Herald, GreekReporter, Harlots Sauce Radio, Women.Who.Write, KPHTH magazine, XPAT Athens, and more. Maria has contributed to 2 books: Greektown Chicago: Its History, Its Recipes and The Chicago Area Ethnic Handbook. She's presently moving connected a novel. www.mariakaramitsos.com