2 MILES FROM HOME Official Trailer

a documentary by Julia Speropoulos.

Festivals/Awards:
Winner at the 8th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra
Official Selection at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival 2021
Official Selection at the 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Official Selection at the Orient Express Film Festival, Switzerland 2021
Official Selection at the Docfest Chalkida, Greece 2021

Production Year: 2020.
Project Genre: Creative Documentary.
Duration: 84’
Languages: modern Greek, Pontic Greek, Turkish

Credits:
Production Company: JS FILM PRODUCTIONS
Director/Screenwriter: Julia D. Speropoulos
Cinematography: Tasos Kosmidis, Julia Speropoulos
Original Music: Konstantinos (aka Odysmod) Sidiropoulos
Editor: Tzannetos Komineas
Sketch Artist/Illustrator: Eleni Marna
History interviewee: Vlassis Agtzidis
Genocide activist: Tamer Tsilingir
Turkish interpreter/translator: Sofia Angelidou
Archive Footage/Historian: Isidoros Sideropoulos.

Web: https://www.juliasperopoulos.com/2milesfromhome
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/2milesfromhomedoc
Instagram: @2milesfromhome
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5543218/

Logline
The holocaust of the Greeks of Anatolia, focusing on the genocide of the Greeks of the Black Sea (Pontic Greeks), with interviews of survivors, their descendants, and historians.

Short Synopsis
This creative documentary focuses on the period during 1914-1923, peaking at the arrival of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at Samsun on May 19th, 1919. That was the climax of the genocide of the Greeks of the Black Sea (Pontic/pontian Greeks), killing more than 353,000 Pontic Greeks. In this documentary, the poorer, uprooted, full-of-hardships survivors, their descendants, historians, and genocide activists speak about the genocidal crimes. Through new and archive footage, sketches, archive photos and newspapers, this documentary provokes the discovery of the truth beyond denial.

Director’s STATEMENT
“If there’s no punishment to the crime, it will be repeated to a greater scale. If Mustafa Kemal and his companions had been convicted for the genocides of the Armenians and the Greeks, maybe the Nazis wouldn’t have committed the genocide of the Jews”.
-Tamer Tsilingir, author-Pontic Greek genocide activist

If a crime isn’t punished it’s repeated, and to a greater scale. We need to help stop more genocides from happening. In order to do this, we need to raise awareness and to honor about 1.2 million Greeks that died in the Holocaust, unjustly and unprotected, 100 years ago. This documentary reveals facts about this heinous crime. The truth may be revealed.