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Greek Documentary Assn. Head Marianna Economou on Growing the Local Industry

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Christopher Vourlias As the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival winds down, filmmaker and Greek Documentary Association (GDA) president Marianna Economou points to great strides taken by the local industry in recent years, while adding that more support is needed to sustain its growth and development.As the head of the GDA, Economou oversees an organization that was founded in 2013 with a goal “to support Greek creative documentary as a distinct cinematic genre in Greece and to work for its further recognition and promotion internationally,” she says.The industry’s output is steadily growing, as witnessed this week in Thessaloniki, where the festival’s 23rd edition included 72 short and feature-length Greek documentary films.

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