The 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century presents the “Out Here” Conference, which will take place on Thursday March 19, 2015, at 12:00 p.m., at the Olympion Theatre, in collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. As part of the event, Thomas Kiaos’ documentary Out Here, which was realized on the occasion of the completion of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s “Initiative against the Crisis” program, will be screened.

A discussion will also be held regarding the crisis in Greece and internationally, which will be coordinated by journalist and documentarian Maya Tsokli. Also present at the panel discussion will be: Spyros Pengas (Deputy Mayor of Tourism and International Relations, also a member of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Board of Directors, as a representative of the Municipality of Thessaloniki), the filmmakers Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall and Marta Dauliute (directors of the documentary Crisis Document: A Survival Guide, which will be premiering at this year’s festival), Thekla Malamou (representing the “Caravan Project” initiative) and Anna Maria Kosmoglou (representing the Stavros Niarchos Foundation).

The documentary:
Out Here
Directed by Thomas Kiaos
Screenplay by Thomas Kiaos, Natasha Sengou
(Color, 50’, Greece, 2015)

Out here there are people in need and many willing to stand by them.
Out here there are unprecedented problems and innovative solutions.
Out here there are dead ends and many new roads.

This documentary presents examples of organizations supported as part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s Initiative Against the Greek Crisis, an emergency relief program which has provided €100 million in funding from 2012 to 2015. The 13 organizations showcased are (in order of appearance): Prolepsis Institute, Boroume, Praksis, Shedia Street Paper, KETHEA Exelixis, Organization Earth, Mobile Medical Units, Children of Spring, PERPATO, Benaki Museum, Center for Talented Youth (Anatolia College), Orange Grove and Impact Hub Athens.