Archive: Year 2015
BALKAN DOX
Mana
Director
Valerie Kontakos
Producer
Kathryn Hunter
Cinematographers
Giannis Misouridis
Pantelis Mantzanas
Editor
Dimitris Peponis
Sound
Dimitris Kanellopoulos
Website
Contact
Exile Films
12 Athinas st, 3rd floor Monastiraki
Athens, Greece
+30 210 3223 395
[email protected]
2015
Greece
70 min
Color
In 1962, a group of young women made headlines in Greece by running away to join a convent. Uninterested in praying all day, they started a shelter for abandoned and abused children. 50 years later, they are still raising infants without a wedding band, without help from church or state.
Director
Born in New York to Greek parents, she moved to Athens in 2003. Upon finishing NYU film school she worked on features and commercials until she met and worked for David and Albert Maysles and decided to concentrate exclusively on documentaries. Her work has aired in TV networks in the US, Greece, Finland and Korea. “Who’s on First? won best documentary in 2007 at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival. She has taught at Queens College and was on the board of directors of the Greek Film Archive.
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