Greek Nomination for 2010 Asian Film Awards

On March 22nd 2010, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society will hand out honors at the Asian Film Awards taking place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The AFAs are a fairly new addition to the HK Film Festival, with its inaugural run taking place in 2007. This year’s will be only the 4th annual AFAs but judging from the list of nominees, they have the selection process down to a perfect science.
This year Tina Kalivas (foto), a Greek designer from Sidney, is nominated for “Best Costume Design” for the film “Goemon” (Japan), along with Christian Lacroix, Anne Dunsford, Chia-Hui Wang for the film “Face” (Taiwan), Dora Ng for the film “Bodyguards and Assassins” (Hong Kong/China) and Hyun-sub Shim for “The Sword With No Name” (South Korea).
“Goemon” is based on the legend of a Robin Hood-like hero and was directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, who was responsible for 2004’s popular “Casshern.”
Kaliva’s costumes feature an ancient-Orient-meets-Europe decadence, and her work shows imaginative use of embroidery, pleating and texture in her breathtaking interpretations of kimono, ninja suits and samurai armor. The collaboration is the first between an Australian designer and such a large Japanese production, and Kalivas took the opportunity to present her eponymous noncostume label in Tokyo in late March.
“If I were to choose between normalcy in fashion and fantasy, I would go with fantasy, definitely,” she said at the time.
Kalivas worked under creative powerhouse Alexander McQueen before establishing her own line in Sydney in 2002.