Status: Completed
Creator(s): Aleksi Delikouras
Format: 12 x 26 min / 24 x 12 min
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Main Actors: Samuel Kujala, Eino Manner, Raouf Saadi, Cedric Ingram, Linnea Leino
Festival(s): Series Mania 2018 Panorama Short Formats
Based on the award-winning book from critically-acclaimed young novelist Aleksi Delikouras, Dragonslayer666 tells the story of what it takes to become a champion, and how to build a team that you can trust to take with you into battle. Only this war is happening online.
The series follows the meteoric rise of eSports and the challenging path faced by those who burn to become professional gamers in a world that still looks down on its players. It’s a story about the wild world of gaming – but also about friendship and rivalry, sky-high stakes and punishing emotional burnout… about the teen protagonists’ desperate search for a place in which to belong and to triumph, against a backdrop of relentless, non-stop top velocity change.
These are not nerds – these are cyber-athletes!
CAST
Actors: Samuel Kujala, Eino Manner, Raouf Saadi, Cedric Ingram, Linnea Leino
CREW
Creator(s): Aleksi Delikouras
Producers: Riina Hyytiä, Max Malka
Director(s): Aleksi Delikouras
Screenplay: Aleksi Delikouras
Directors of Photography: Arsen Sarkisiants
Editing: Hanna Kuirinlahti
Original Music: Simo Pitkänen
Set Design: Kari Kankaanpää
Costume Supervisors: Roosa Marttiini
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Production Company: Dionysos Films
Production Date: 2017
Date of First Broadcast: Thursday, October 5, 2017
Broadcaster(s): Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Country of Origin: Finland
Language: Finnish
Format: 12 x 26 min / 24 x 12 min
