Directors' Interviews 9/2

Creative Documentary Center

The Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival's purpose has always been to introduce the audience of Peloponnese some very special films from all over the world. This year according to the difficult circumstances it was decided that there will be a hybrid version of the festival with an ONLINE release in February and a live premiere in May. In this situation we asked volunteers and festival staff to interview the directors of the ONLINE program to bring them closer with the audience even if they couldn't have met in the theaters. Behind the scenes information, personal stories and more in depth approach to the films are available through these interviews. The interviews of the films included in the "Claiming Freedom" tribute have been conducted by the students of Theater Studies of University of Peloponnese, as one part of our collaboration with the University.

 

The interviews of the directors were conducted by: Manos Kalafatelis, Dina Sotaki, Stella Papakonstantinou, Kostas Metsos, Giannis Koutresis, Ioannis Manoloudis, Andrianna Giannakopoulou, Daphne Alihatzoti, Ornela Koutrolli, Ilektra Katsimiha, Valia Orfanidou, Antonia Pternea and Maria Siamatra, Maria Nikolakopoulou, Giorgos Geranakis, Aggelos Kourepis, Maria Galani, Kalliopi Kalpodimou, Katerina Mefsout from Theater Studies faculty of University of Peloponnese team.

 

Siniša Gačić "Daughter of Camorra"

Siniša Gačić graduated at the Slovenian Academy for film. As a journalist and director he has collaborated with national TV Slovenija since 1999 and made several documentary films.

You can check out the interview by Ioannis Manoloudis with Siniša here.

 

Maria Monreal Otano "With eyes open"

Graduated in Journalism with Specialization in Production of Scenic Arts at the University of Navarra. During her career, she focused on training in the documentary genre. The result of this was "Con los ojos abiertos" (With eyes open), a documentary made entirely by her as an individual end-of-career project.

You can check out the interview by Dina Sotaki with Maria here.

 

Helena Třeštíková "Forman v Forman"

Helena Třeštíková studied documentary filmmaking at the Prague Film Academy, FAMU. Since 1974 she has worked as a professional filmmaker, shooting almost fifty documentary films of various lengths on themes of interpersonal relationships and social problems. In the course of time, she specialized in the longitudinal approach, following people’s life stories on long-term basis. For a period of six years, her first series of time-lapse films followed the everyday lives of several young married couples from the moment of their wedding. For her film René (2008), she was awarded by the European Film Academy (EFA) the 2008 Prix Arte for Best Documentary Film.

You can read the full e-mail interview with Helena here.

 

Don't forget to check out the films in today's program 9/2 from 00:00 till 23:59 GR Time in this link.

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