"Somehow, in the process of going for the mainstream, we forgot a little bit about the underground which is where we started," says filmmaker Fil Ieropoulos.
"Because many of the people shown in our film seem fearless, iconoclastic or whatever, I wasn't familiar with how afraid they are of the street," Ieropoulos says, calling from London.
Athens is brimming with the kind of anarchic, punky and eccentric drag that is yet to bag an Emmy nomination. We're talking baked goods for breasts, scribbles of 'slut' as makeup, and hairpieces made of inhalers.
Avant-Drag! draws a thick line between what many perceive as widespread, cross-border LGBTQ+ acceptance, and the darker, more dangerous reality.
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