had to move to Athens for professional reasons while Mitsos Papavasileiou had already had moved to Livadeia so they stopped shooting. In October 2009 they decided to resume shooting and they started a series of scheduled trips to Thessaloniki, mostly on weekends and holidays. Since all cast and crew collaborated for free and everything was done in a DIY philosophy, the film's budget of €2000 was merely the cost of those trips. The shooting concluded in October 2010, more than two years after it begun. After that Georgios Papaioannou begun editing it for almost a year. In Spring 2011, since the word of the first Greek superhero movie had already been spread among fans, the movie was invited to the Den Yparxei Film Festival in Athens. During that time only one full scene was complete with visual effects and compositing (the space shuttle scene) and therefore only that scene could be screened in the festival. Nevertheless, the movie was awarded a special prize for the Best Picture Yet To See. In November 2011 a rough cut of Super Demetrios was first publicly screened at the 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival. After the festival Georgios Papaioannou resumed editing the movie for a while. They also replaced some of the songs used in the festival copy with original scores so as in the final cut all music was either original or royalty-free. Distribution Following the awards the film was distributed by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival to several Greek cities. After that, OtiNaNai Productions got its own distribution in two cinemas in Athens and Thessaloniki at the same time. The film was also invited to many film clubs around Greece. License One year after its initial screening the film along with its soundtrack was freely released on the Internet under an Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Trivia The protagonist's title "Super Demetrios" is a direct reference to Thessaloniki's patron saint Saint Demetrius. The movie was distributed freely on the Internet on October 26, the name day of Super Demetrios/Dimitris Christophorides, i.e. the feast day of Saint Demetrius. The villain's title is "Captain F.ROM" (pronounced "fee-rom") and his constant goal throughout the film is to be recognised by his true name. This is a satire on the Macedonia naming dispute, due to the acronym "FYROM", which was often used to refer to the country. Cinematic