Biography
C.K. Harris is a queer, autistic screenwriter, born in Greece but proud to call Ireland home for the past 6 years. Despite his lack of formal screenwriting education, his very first script “Normality” was selected for Spotlight. Deciding to use this opportunity to discover himself as a writer and master his craft, he has over the past year fully developed Normality, while creating a portfolio of features, short films and one play that was translated to be staged in Athens last September. Alas, the pandemic prevented that from happening.
His scripts tend to have a surrealistic approach to mundane situations of our everyday lives. He enjoys writing diverse characters that are not used as tokens, with layered backgrounds. He is heavily inspired by the rawness of Scandinavian and Eastern European cinema (Lars von Trier and Emir Kusturica to name a few) with a touch of Western European and American refinement (like Yorgos Lanthimos and Charlie Kaufman).
“Normality” is a story for those struggling to find a reason to wake up tomorrow morning, who feel stuck without a purpose during our brief time in the sun.
Project Title: Normality
- Genre: Lo-Fi Drama
Synopsis
In an extreme version of our reality, a world in which humans live to work, get married and have families, women raise future generations, while men provide for the family. In this, Gerwin has always felt an outlier: a single, gay man in a society made for families. As he’s made his job into his sole purpose in life, his world crumbles when he fails to get the role of his dreams. A chain of events leads him to leave his job and the country, only to realise that things aren’t much different elsewhere. Looking for purpose, first through his job and then through love and companionship by reuniting with his ex-boyfriend, Gerwin finds that none of it is enough.
Hounded by the system for being unemployed, he joins a group of rebel artists who are seeking to take down their oppressors. Gerwin becomes obsessed with his new passion: changing the world. But when a few of the other members disappear, Gerwin becomes suspicious. Is there something more sinister behind their rebellious acts?