When Greek-Canadian director Panagiotis Giannitsos was filming the documentary “Freedom Besieged” – which will officially premiere in Greece at the end of April – he sought to give a platform to voices of hope and creativity among the so-called “lost generation” of the crisis years, rather than to barren criticism and protest, ANA reports.
Talking to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), which has secured the trailer to his documentary, the 25-year-old director noted that he had filmed 100 hours of footage in five countries, condensing this into a film of roughly 60-70 minutes that he hopes will spark a debate on what society must do “to create an environment that will give our children identity and hope for the future.”
Giannitsos lives and works in Vancouver, Canada but both his parents hail from the Peloponnese, the children of Greek migrants that emigrated in the 1960s. After almost 30 visits to the country, he says that Greece is as much his home as Canada.
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