Angelina Jolie expressed her great love for Greece in an interview about her film MARIA along with director Pablo Larrain, in London.
“It is very special, and I think there was something very meaningful to start this film in Greece, for obvious reasons,” Jolie noted.
The Chilean director praised the uniqueness of the Greek light: “The water, the colors, the islands in the background, but the light, I think, as a filmmaker, lighting has a lot of meaning and I think the light in Greece, to me it’s a Greek light. This atmosphere, you cannot cheat. There’s a lot of things you can cheat in films but not the light.”
The first shooting of the film, which follows the Greek diva as she retires to Paris after a glamorous and turbulent life, took place in the Peloponnese and specifically in Ilia.
MARIA is one of the most prominent Hollywood productions shot in Greece, thanks to the 40% Cash Rebate investment incentive of the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center- Creative Greece.
HFAC – CREATIVE GREECE, as the main body exercising the country’s film and audiovisual policy, continues its efforts to attract international productions to Greece, which now has its own special place on the world film scene.
