Director of “Social Studies” Lauren Greenfield honor at the Thessaloniki Festival

Award -winning director of Lauren Greenfield withdraws something like the Quartet’s duty at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece.

She is not only working on the international competition jury-alongside Greek director Dimitris Athride and the producer who nominated an Academy Award four times Seneg Berg Sorensen-but is honored by the festival retroactively from her work. On Thursday, she gave a major chapter in TIDF, “Social Studies: Artist Journey” – The title that refers to the latest documentary, Docuseries on a large scale Social sciences About the impact of social media on American children.

“It’s really exciting. It is a great honor … I am really pleased to get here,” Greenfield says of the professional tribute.

We sat coffee in one of the places of the port festival at the festival shortly after Greenfield concluded a conversation with Greek high school students who have just seen an offer from episode 5 of Social sciences. Many children told Greenfield that they appreciate that the documentary did not speak to them, but they presented an authentic image of the pressures that children feel from continuous communication with social media.

A high school commented: “I just want to say that it was one of the first films that I think most of us have seen this really dependent on the teenager’s perspective on the entire topic.” Another said: “It was really fun seeing students in the United States we have no many common denominators between our daily life, but we all participated in the same ideas on social media.” Another note, “I think it is frightening because we know how bad [social media]But we cannot change it and be like, “Well, we leave this behind this.”

Greenfield participated in a question and answer on Thursday after a 2006 documentary screening HighWhich examines the image of the body and eating disorders among young women. Also the examination in assaloniki is Wealth generationGreenfield for the year 2018, which presents “an unusual visual history of our growing wealth.” The Queen of VersaillesAnd, which was released in 2012, documents the couple who are obsessed with wealth from Jackie and David Siegel, who tried to build 85,000 square feet mega in Florida before the 2008 mortgage collapsed the complexity of their plans (the film was adapted to a music This will be shown in Broadway in October, starring Christine Cenoyeth in the role of Jackie and F. Murray Abraham in the role of David).

Greenfield work, whether it is Highand Wealth generationand The Queen of VersaillesOr her book in 1997 for photography Fast forward: He grew up in HollywoodIt keeps an amazing currency despite the passage of time.

“It is crazy and important,” says Greenfield. “The Queen of Versailles There are many similarities between Trump and David Siegel. “

There is no Greenfield in time in time than her documentary 2018 King’s makerIt was also displayed in assaloniki. The former Philippine First Lady Emilda Marcus and her attempt to re -establish the Marcus political dynasty. IMELDA’s hopes were partially installed on her son Ferdong , Who entered into a secret political alliance with Rodrigo Duviti, the head of the Philippines in the style of Strongman who ruled the 2016-2022 model. In 2022, Bongbong Duterte succeeded as an elected leader of the country.

“It was unreasonable to actually become president and then more than Shakespeare’s play he became president by forming an alliance with Duterte, whom we broke in the movie. We broke this relationship that they were working together, but it was just a kind of emerging in the movie,” Greenfield notes. “They actually allied, then Bongbong had a great idea to bring Sarah Doterti [Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter] As vice president, and concluded the entire country, north and south. And I think this was a marriage. “

Earlier this week, Dottei was arrested in Manila and immediately transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face alleged crimes against humanity in relation to the drug control campaign launched by the mayor of Davao, then continued a mayor, which witnessed thousands of alleged drug dealers slaughtered in the street.

“Mr. Marcus explained in a speech to his people.” Interpol asked for help, and we committed us to have obligations to Interpol that we have to achieve. If we do not, they will not help us in other cases that involve the fugitives of Philipino abroad. “

Greenfield notes, “I think that when you transferred Doterti Patton to Boungong and Sarah [Duterte]Perhaps understanding was that they will not hand him over to the International Criminal Court and that he would be acquitted for his crimes. But it is surprising that it is happening now. “

King’s maker He explains how IMELDA Marcos managed to overcome negation and shame after her husband, dictator Ferdinand Marcus, and eventually revive her image and political fitness for her children. Greenfield notes, “a kind of whitening for history King’s maker The documents were completely achieved with Bongbong became first president and then an invitation to the United States and [Vice President] Kamala Harris went to meet him. “

Greenfield says there is a connection between the documentary Marcus and Social sciencesHer fx docuseries.

“Social media is not just a large part of Social sciencesBut a large part of King’s makerBecause that was part of how [the Marcos’s] There is a kind of full history that is by setting a new history or a review date in the world through the various media, “as you notice,” teaching it in schools, but also [via] Social media is in a place where a lot of residents, especially the very poor, get their news from Facebook … where many poor people get the media. ”

It expands on this point by referring to, “I think we have seen with Elon Musk and Twitter, and buying the narration is very strong. We know from the Nazis and also from modern Russia – and former Russia – the power of advertising. And when you have social media, you have the power of advertising.”

It was originally assumed to happen in the TIDF profession in Greenfield in 2020. Then the roaming epidemic erupted.

“It seems like the right time because I feel that a lot of work is of new importance in our current political climate,” says Greenfield, the deadline. “Therefore, it might have been a fate that did not happen during Covid and this happened now, in addition to that I did Social sciences since then. Therefore, it is a new project to share this in a very international way. “