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Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield On ‘Social Studies,’ Receiving Career Tribute, And Arrest Of Ex-Philippines Pres. Rodrigo Duterte – Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival
Lauren Greenfield, director of 'Social Studies' & 'The Queen of Versailles' is getting a career tribute at the Thessaloniki Int'l Documentary Festival.
Not only is she serving on the International Competition jury – alongside Greek filmmaker Dimitris Athiridis and four-time Oscar-nominated producer Signe Byrge Sørensen – but she’s being honored by the festival with a retrospective of her work. We sat down for coffee at one of the festival’s port side venues shortly after Greenfield wrapped a conversation with Greek high school students who had just watched a screening of episode 5 of Social Studies. Greenfield’s work, be it Thin, Generation Wealth, The Queen of Versailles, or her 1997 book of photography Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, retains a startling currency despite the passage of time.
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