Fulbright Greece builds the future through education | 70 Year Doc

Fulbright Greece celebrates 70 years of academic and cultural exchanges between Greece and the Unites States. The Foundation commissioned us with a short documentary video.

The documentary presents

-The roots and the principles of the Fulbright program, explained by Senator Fulbright himself through archival footage.

-The history and the continuous presence of Fulbright Foundation Greece, the first Fulbright office in Europe and the second in the world.

- A growing community of Greek and US alumni and the ripple effect of their Fulbright experience shaping new attitudes based on the values of education and mutual understanding.

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FILM CREDITS

Video Production

Director | Executive Producer Eirini Steirou

Director of Photography Anthony Katrakazis

1st Camera Assistant Damian Aronides

2nd Camera Assistant Georgia Arvaniti

Edited by Stavros Symeonides and Eirini Steirou

Color Correction Anthony Katrakazis

Sound Mix Stavros Symeonides

Supervising Producer Artemis A. Zenetou

Fulbright Greece 70 years Logo design by Zoe Keramea

Music used in the film

Terry Vakirtzoglou “This Mountain Of Mine” (from the album QUALIA)

Song Credits

Voice, lyrics & music Terry Vakirtzoglou

Piano Yiannis Papadopoulos

Guitar Thodoris Kotsifas

Bass Kostas Konstantinou

Drums Michael Kapilidis

Recording-Mixing Giorgos Kariotis | Sierra Studios Athens

Mastering Jeremy Loucas | Sear Sound Studio B NYC

“Delicate Frost” and “Migration” by Winter Solstice

Archival Material Sources

J.W. Fulbright Papers, Series 86, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Library

Senator Fulbright speaks about International Education, Audio File MS F956, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Library

ERT Archives A.E, Prelinger Archives, Critical Past, Library of Congress, Fulbright Foundation Greece, Harriet Fulbright Archives, Lily Alivizatos Archives, Phaedon Kozyris Archives, Panourgia-Pipinopoulou Archives, Eleni Kanapitsa Archives, Konstantinos Koulidas Archives

Fulbright Greece would like to thank for participating in the film

Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt

Fulbright alumni Terry Vakirtzoglou, Zoe Keramea, Eleni Serifi, Ioannis Kapilou, Eleni Sakoumpenta, Panagiotis Milonas, Afroditi Veloudaki, Fotis Flevotomos, Maria Papanikolaou, Ioannis Lagoudis, Breiana Caldwell-Pledger, Kaitlyn Stiles, Peter McDonald, Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Scott Harris, Caroline Palmer

Fulbright volunteer Angela Derou

Fulbright Staff Angie Fotaki, Els Siakos Hanappe and Nicholas Tourides

Fulbright Greece would like to thank all those institutions and organizations and individuals that contributed to this film.

US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Institute of International Education

US Embassy Greece

Special Collections University of Arkansas Library, Geoffery Stark

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Gennadius Library, Maria Georgopoulou

Hellenic American Educational Foundation

Antonia Koutsodonti and Eleni Zontou from ERT Archives

Studio Sierra

Production

The Fulbright Foundation in Greece 2018