Lefteris Eleftheriou: “It is a great honour for Cyprus and all of us to have the number one film on Netflix worldwide”

The Cyprus Film Commission and Invest Cyprus are very proud that Find Me Falling, the movie starring Harry Connick Jr. that was written and directed in Cyprus by South African Cypriot Stelana Kliris, has reached number one on the Netflix Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films – not even a week after it first started streaming on 19 July.

Indeed, Cyprus Film Commissioner Lefteris Eleftheriou told CBN: “The Cyprus Film Commission and Invest Cyprus are very proud of this success. It is a great honour for Cyprus and all of us to have the number one film on Netflix worldwide.”

He added, “The Cypriot movie is performing exceptionally well, and our achievement is even more significant considering that we are competing with films that have budgets of tens of millions and feature well-known movie stars”.

This success is attributed to Stelana Kliris, he said, with the Cyprus Film Commission and Invest Cyprus lending a helping hand. “The Cyprus Film Commission and Invest Cyprus have proudly contributed to this achievement with our generous cash rebate scheme,” said Eleftheriou, who believes this is just the beginning of Cyprus’ journey to becoming a top filming destination. “I am happy to say that we will soon witness similar successes on other popular platforms,” he promised.

According to Netflix’s Tudum site, the plot of the film, which was previously entitled 'The Islander,' is the following: “Coming off a flop album and his biggest hit’s dwindling popularity, aging rock star John Allman decides to take a break from his career to reclaim his spark. He moves to an isolated cliffside home on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Cyprus, but John’s dream of keeping a low profile is derailed when he is routinely confronted by desperate souls and later faced with even more complicated surprises when an old flame reignites.”

“This is a love story about many kinds of love: romantic, family, lifelong dreams, and what you’re willing to sacrifice for the people or the things you love,” Kliris told Tudum. “John essentially has to decide whether the love of his life is his music or the woman he left behind."