Zavitsanos Twins Set Their Sights on Filmmaking, Law

Twenty-six-year-old identical twins Socratis and Diamantis Zavitsanos often finish each other’s thoughts and sentences, although Diamantis talks a little more than his brother. Socs and DZ, as they’re known to friends, are both getting ready for law school in the fall, most likely at the University of Michigan, and they both speak passable Greek.

But what they really want to do is make movies. The sons of Houston-based trial lawyer John Zavitsanos, the twins have already produced their first feature film, the scrappy and inventive independent crime thriller Sew Torn. Directed by 24-year-old wunderkind Freddy Macdonald, the youngest directing fellow ever accepted to the American Film Institute Conservatory, Sew Torn tells the story of Barbara (Eve Connolly), a seamstress who puts her wicked thread skills to work in the wake of a drug deal gone awry. The film was released theatrically in May and is now available for purchase on Apple TV+.