On Thursday, March 13, at the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace Hotel, the following directors shared their experience of making their films during Just Talking: the directors Sylvain Biegeleisen (The last card), Tiffany Burns (Mr Big), Simon Brook (Generation '68), Dimitris Vernikos (The Mirror and the Knife) and Parvez Sharma (A Jihad for love). Peter Wintonick, producer, director, journalist and co-producer of the film Be like others coordinated the discussion. Opening the discussion, Pete...

Kyran Joughin, UK journalist, who coordinated the discussion, Maria Leonida, director of the documentary My First Time, Rebeccah Rush, producer of the film Indestructible and Suzanne Chisholm, director of the film Saving Luna participated in "Just Talking", which took place in the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace Hotel on Wednesday, March 12. Rebeccah Rush, besides being the producer of Indestructible, is also the sister of the film's director and protagonist Ben Byer , explained t...

  Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, important figures in the world of American independent documentary film making, gave a press conference on Thursday, March 13 at the Olympion's Green Room. They said that they began working together at a time when the genre was not well known, wishing to contribute to the development of the genre. The press conference was introduced by Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. He said: "I am happy that we have such...

  A press conference took place on Thursday, March 13 at the Olympion's "Green Room", in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The participants were Simon Brook, director of the film Generation 68, Tiffany Burns, director of the film Mr. Big, Parvez Sharma, director of the film A Jihad for love and Bon-Hwak Koo, director of the film To find tiger Kim. Tiffany Burns, speaking about her film Mr. Big - which is about a method invented and perfected by the Royal ...

  The journalist Sotiris Danezis gave a press conference on Thursday, March 13, at the Olympion's "Green Room", as part of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. He spoke about the goals of the series "War Zone" and the difficulties in making a documentary. Sotirs Danezis was welcomed by Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. "We have an important Greek journalist with us, whose work influences a wide audience. Learnin...

The directors Dimitris Vernikos (The Mirror and the Knife), Alida Dimitriou (Birds in the Mire), Manolis Dimellas (Live and let live) and Maria Leonida (My First Time), gave a press conference on Thursday, March 13 at the Olympion's Green Room. Maria Leonida's film is about the time of her first pregnancy and the conflicting emotions a woman feels when she enters this process. "It is a clearly personal subject. I gave my personal experience, but I've been told that many women identify with ...

Kyran Joughin, UK journalist, who coordinated the discussion, Maria Leonida, director of the documentary My First Time, Rebeccah Rush, producer of the film Indestructible and Suzanne Chisholm, director of the film Saving Luna participated in "Just Talking", which took place in the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace Hotel on Wednesday, March 12. Rebeccah Rush, besides being the producer of Indestructible, is also the sister of the film's director and protagonist Ben Byer , explained t...

On Tuesday, March 11, at the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace hotel, the directors Necati Sonmez (To make an example of), Krzysztof Kopczynnski (Stone Silence), Buthina Canaan Khoury (Maria's Grotto), Mary-Ellen Davis (Territories), Sarah Singh (The sky below), Sibel Bilgin & Floor Kooij (Burhan Uygur: Passion of an artist), Pola Rapaport (Hair let the sun shine in), Sotiris Danezis, honoree of the Festival, and the distributor Sirkka Moeller from the German company Deckert, participated...

"Guerilla Filmmaking" was the title of the workshop presented by the documentary filmmaker and journalist Sotirs Danezis in the morning of Wednesday, March 12, at the John Cassavetes theater in Warehouse 1 at the port, as part of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. During the workshop, the journalist explained to the public what it means to make documentaries in war zones, what difficulties the director faces, and what choices he has to make. He also spoke about techniques that...

On the second day of Just Talking, Monday, March 10 at the Excelsior room of Electra Palace hotel, the invited discussion group member were: Jeffrey Morgan, director of Lillie and Leander: A legacy of violence, Yung Chang, director of the documentary Up the Yangtze, Samantha Zarzosa, producer of the film City of cranes, Lucian Muntean and Natasa Stankovic directors of the film Journey of a red fridge, Peter Entell, director of Shake the devil off and Lydia Karra, director of the film My Life and...

 On Tuesday, March 11, in the Olympion's "Green Room", a press conference was held in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The participants were Krzysztof Kopczynski, director of the film Stone silence, Pola Rapaport, director of the film Hair, let the sun shine in, Sylvain Biegeleisen, director of the film Τhe last card and Hilary Helstein, director of the film As seen through these eyes. Krzysztof Kopczynski, speaking about his documentary Stone Silence - whic...

A press conference was given on Tuesday, March 11 at the Olympion's Green Room, by the directors of the documentaries To make an example of, Necati Sonmez, Maria's Grotto, Buthina Canaan Khoury and Territories, Mary Elen Davis. To make an example of, which is included in the Human Rights section of the Documentary Festival, deals with the subject of the death penalty in Turkey. "The main purpose of the documentary is to communicate the last moments of the condemned, just before the executio...

All the speakers of the conference "Approaching Nature: Natural Farming and Reforestation", stressed the personal responsibility everyone has to fight to change the world. The conference took place on Tuesday, March 11, in Warehouse 1, at the port, in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival opened the conference. He noted: "I am happy that once again we have the opportunity to organize a...

 On Monday, March 10 a press conference took place in the “Green Room” of the Olympion, in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Those participating were Floor Kooij and Sibel Bilgin, directors of the documentary Burhan Uygur Passion of an artist, Sarah Singh, director of The sky below and Samantha Zarzosa producer of the documentary City of Cranes. Sibel Bilgin, director of Burhan Uygur Passion of an artist, explained that she knew the innovative artist Burhan Uygur p...

 A press conference was given on Monday, March 10 at noon, in the Olympion's Green Room, by Jeffrey Morgan, director of Lillie & Leander: A legacy of violence, Peter Entell, director of Shake the devil off, and Chris Swider, director of Children in exile. The film Lillie & Leander: Α Legacy of violence is about the case of a black man who was judged to be guilty of the murder of a white woman in Florida, at the beginning of the 20th century. However, through this case, the general issu...