Theodoros Bafaloukos
Theodoros Bafaloukos( May 18, 1946 – 2016) was a director, screenwriter and production designer from Greece known for his work in Jamaica and the U.S.
He directed" Rockers", the 1970s era film about Jamaican music and culture.
Bafaloukos was born on the island of Andros in Greece.
He traveled to Jamaica as a photographer in 1975 where he was briefly detained under suspicion of being a CIA spy.
He lived on the island and became friends with Augustus Pablo who features in the film.
The film became an influential classic.
" Time Out" called it a Trenchtown variant on the story of Robin Hood.
It premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1978 and was shown at the Cannes Film Festival the same year as Apocalypse Now.
It was received enthusiastically.
" Le Monde" said it was not a film but a work of art.
He also made music videos and was a production designer for Barry Levinson, Errol Morris, and Jonathan Demme.
He was Art Director for Aerosmith's music video Amazing( 1993) featuring Alicia Silverstone.
He appears as George in Barry Levinson's 1983 film" Diner" and was a creative consultant for the film.
Rockers (1978 film)
Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film by Theodoros Bafaloukos.
Several popular reggae artists star in the movie, including Leroy" Horsemouth" Wallace, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth, Dillinger, and Jacob Miller.
Rockers was originally intended to be a documentary but blossomed into a full- length feature showing the reggae culture at its peak.
With a budget of JA$ 500,000, the film was completed in two months.
The film features authentic culture, characters and mannerisms.
The main rocker Leroy" Horsemouth" Wallace, for example, is shown living with his actual wife and kids and in his own home.
The recording studios shown are the famous Harry J Studios where many roots reggae artists recorded during the 1970s including Bob Marley.
The film includes Kiddus I's recording of" Graduation In Zion" at the studio, which he happened to be recording when Bafaloukos visited the studio.
" Rockers" premiered at the 1978 San Francisco Film Festival and had a theatrical release in the US in 1980.
Samples of the film's dialogue were used in the early 1990s jungle track," Babylon" by Splash," Terrorist Dub" by Californian ragga-metal band Insolence, in the track" Zion Youth" from the 1995 album Second Light by Dreadzone and in 2012 in the song" Smoke" by Inner Terrestrials.
The Jamaican Patois spoken throughout the film is rendered with English language subtitles for a foreign audience.
In 2018, Wallace, Kiddus I, and Big Youth came together to perform two shows in São Paulo, Brazil, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the film.
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Question: Are the directors of films Rockers (1978 Film) and The Voice (1982 Film) both from the same country?
Answer: no