Award-winning filmmakerLauren Greenfieldis pulling something like quadruple duty at theThessaloniki International Documentary Festivalin Greece.
Its a huge honor… Im really thrilled to get to be here.
Its crazy, the relevance, Greenfield says.
Filmmaker Lauren GreenfieldTiDF
Queen of Versailles there are a lot of similarities between Trump and David Siegel.
No Greenfield film is more timely than her 2018 documentaryThe Kingmaker, which also screened at Thessaloniki.
It documents former Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos and her attempt to re-establish the Marcos political dynasty.
Greek high school students gather in a circle on stage before a screening of Lauren Greenfield’s ‘Social Studies’ at the Thessaloniki International Documentary FestivalMatthew Carey
In 2022, Bongbong succeeded Duterte as the countrys elected leader.
And I guess that was a marriage of convenience.
If we dont do that, they will no longer help us with other cases involving Filippino fugitives abroad.
But its kind of amazing that its happening now.
Greenfield says theres a connection to be made between the Marcos documentary andSocial Studies, her FX docuseries.
And we know from the Nazis and also from modern day Russia and past Russia the power of propaganda.
And when you have social media, you have the power of propaganda.
TiDFs career retrospective for Greenfield was originally supposed to happen in 2020.
Then the Covid pandemic erupted.
So its a new project to share that in a way is very international.
