About the Director
Julia D. Speropoulos
Julia Speropoulos is a Greek American actress/directress, born in Miami Florida USA, where she graduated with a theater arts degree in acting from Florida International University (Bachelor of Arts in Theatre). She also studied at New York Film Academy, NY. As an actress, she performed in Free Rider, her first play produced in Athens in 2011. In TV she has hosted the Greek Sewer Stories Metropolis show by the Dutch channel VPRO.
The first film she worked in as assistant director, Sunflower Seeds (documentary)is the winner of several awards, as well as Officially Selected for the Kids n Docs section of 26th IDFA in 2013. JEAN isher first documentary (acquired by ERT channel, Greece). Julia Speropoulos currently travels between the United States and Greece.
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Filmography:
2017, JEAN, director, documentary short, Greece.
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Winner of Best First Film of a Director at the 4th International Documentary Film Festival Ierapetra, 2017, Crete. Officially Selected at Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona/NYC/Paris, 2017, Barcelona Spain. 3rd Place in the Audience Award Section at the 4th Peloponnisos Doc Festival, Kalamata 2018, Greece. Special Mention in the Documentary Section at the 7th Athens International Digital Film Festival 2018. Officially Selected at ROMA CINEMA DOC, 2017, Rome, Italy.Officially Selected at MINDIE Miami Independent Film Festival, 2017, Miami, Florida, USA. First Selection at the International Short Film Festival Kalmthout, Belgium, 2017
2015 Tomorrow in battle, think of me,assistant director, short film, Greece.
2015 Es Avrion Ta Spoudaia, assistant director, ERT channel, Greece.
2014 Sewer Stories-Metropolis show, host, VPRO channel, Holland.
2013 Aisha, assistant director and voice of “Aisha”, short film, filming, Greece.
2013 Sunflower Seeds, assistant director, documentary, Greece.
Director’s Statement:
«In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.»
--The journal intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel, 1891
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The film examines the lack of freedom, when there is no health. About a person who is unable to express her will, to be free. Someone, who depends on the State to offer care for. Acountry plagued by financial crisis and increased unemployment,fails to provide to the weak, because she herself is ill. A society that’s dying slowly, and taking down those people with her, in its declining course.