The Dark Candy is a PRODUCTION COMPANY founded by Sakis Lalas, documentary director, producer, photographer, and Valentina De Giorgi, writer and producer.
We are a couple in life and work, our passions are fashion and cinema and we want to tell people INSPIRING STORIES. Inspiring stories can change lives. Inspiring stories can change the world.
We write, create and produce limited DOCU-SERIES and feature DOCUMENTARIES. We write, create and produce content for digital mediums and digital platforms.
We live between Greece and Italy, so as CONSULTING PRODUCERS / PRODUCTION SERVICES for Film/Tv/Documentary projects we cover these two areas. We manage scouting locations, research crew/talents, hospitality services, transportations, support in permits and applications paperwork, wardrobe, props and other preproduction and production steps.
We created and produced the docu-series ”Meet The Costume Designers”, shot between Los Angeles and Rome, where legendary Hollywood Costume Designers tell everything about their amazing work. Distributed by Prime Entertainment Group:
We created and produced “Hollywood in Quarantine”, an unconventional short-documentary, shot through the middle of the lockdown, breaking down the boundaries, the bans from traveling and the social distancing. “Hollywood in Quarantine” was an Official Selection at the Milano Fashion Film Festival 2021
We organized many events where the audience actually met big Hollywood Costume Designers. We held Masterclasses on Fashion & Cinema and on the huge impact Costume Design has on our culture. We created an online Live Talks Series format, “Fashion Meets Cinema” where we host the Costume Designers of hit TV shows & movies that influenced fashion, like “Emily in Paris”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, “Unorthodox”, ”Clueless” and ”Melrose Place”.
MEET THE COSTUME DESIGNERS docu-series
Documentary
by THE DARK CANDY productions (Documentary)
DIRECTOR They are behind your favourite characters. They create fashion icons, trends of the moment or immortal outfits. Meet the Costume Designers.
In this a one-of-a-kind docu-series, Hollywood Costume Designers tells everything about their amazing job behind the scenes of the greatest movies and tv shows: the encounters, the joys, the sweat, the sorrows, the facts and the stories behind every costume.
directed by Sakis Lalas
written by Valentina De Giorgi
produced by The Dark Candy productions
post-production by PRIME Entertainment Group (Paris, Los Angeles)
executive producer Martine Melloul KALI Pictures (Los Angeles)
executive producer PRIME Entertainment Group (Paris, Los Angeles)
broadcast distribution PRIME Entertainment Group (Paris, Los Angeles)
Informations:
Episodes : 10
Duration: 15′ min each
list of episodes:
Deborah Landis
Sanja Hays
Lyn Paolo
Lou Eyrich
Jenny Eagan
Marilyn Vance
Jany Temime
Cate Adair
Sonu Mishra
Carlo Poggioli
HOLLYWOOD IN QUARANTINE documentary
Documentary
by THE DARK CANDY productions (Documentary)
DIRECTOR PRODUCER Seven costume designers, two countries divided by the ocean and a pandemic: Seven costume designers open their homes and their hearts, share their personal experience with quarantine and pandemic, with the uncertainty and with the fact that everything can be called into question. But also with hope, with rediscovering the meaningful things in life and with discovering new feelings. And with the same question: what will the world look like when those locked doors fly open? An unconventional short-documentary, shot through the middle of the lockdown, breaking down the boundaries, the bans from traveling and the social distancing.