| Nikos Evdemon | |
| Born: | 1940 Salonika, Greece |
| Died: | October 30, 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Age: | 82 |
| Occupation: | Cinematographer |
| Nationality: | Greek |
| Other works: | La Femme Nikita Mutant X ReGenesis Monk |
Nikos Evdemon was the director of photography on La Femme Nikita during the first three seasons of the series. He shot 29 episodes of the series.
Evdemon’s honors included four Gemini Awards, two Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) awards and a CSC President’s Award for lifetime achievement award. He also served on the board of the CSC.
Evdemon stepped into the freelance world in 1996 “with the idea that now maybe I will be able to just travel and relax,” but the phone rang and producer Jamie Paul Rock asked him to shoot on the series Nikita during a troubled first season. “I just went to do the odd show, but they liked my work and asked me to do some more, so I did six altogether. Then Jamie said he wanted me to do the second season of 22 more episodes.”
The DOP said he wanted to shoot a movie before the second season of Nikita ended, and he was glad to be able to turn the show over to his gaffer, Jim Westenbrink csc, who also alternated with Evdemon when he was asked, again by Rock, to shoot the first season (2002) of Mutant X. “I really admire cinematographers who regularly shoot series by themselves. It is very tiring and it becomes a routine. After a while, you just want a change. I mean I love doing series, but not for such a long time. I never wanted to do 20 episodes.”
Evdemon lightened the dark look of Nikita because “I felt that it needed to place the environment where the whole psyche of it was. Nikita (Peta Wilson) was put into that environment against her will, and it was a very cruel, very cold, very sterile environment and it had a lot of edges. She always had that secret desire to escape and do something with her life, but she knew she wasn’t allowed to have a personal life. So I tried to warm up her life a little bit.”
Episodes[]
Season One[]
Season Two[]
- 201 Hard Landing
- 202 Spec Ops
- 203 Third Person
- 204 Approaching Zero
- 205
- 206
- 207
- 208
- 209
- 210
- 211 Psychic Pilgrim
- 212 Soul Sacrifice
- 213 Not Was
- 215 Fuzzy Logic
- 216
- 217
- 218
- 220 In Between
Season Three[]
- 303 Opening Night Jitters
- 305 Imitation of Death
- 306Love and Country
- 308 Outside the Box
- 311 Walk On By