EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
Documentary about the refugees from Asia Minor in the Peloponnese
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the Creative Documentary Center of Kalamata invites - in the context of its educational activities - students and teachers of Secondary Education to participate in the production of a documentary on the refugees from Asia Minor in the Peloponnese.
We remind you that during the uprooting of 1922, thousands of Greeks from Asia Minor came as refugees to the Peloponnese, while many of them managed, despite the difficulties and adversity, to rebuild their lives here. Considering the huge contribution of the people of Asia Minor at the local, political, social, cultural and sports level and given that today their descendants remain in the same cities, the Creative Documentary Center, organizer of the Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival, with the help of the students, wants to bring to the surface documents from this tragic period in the history of Hellenism, written exactly 100 years ago.
The cities to which the program is addressed are the cities of the network of the Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival, that is, Kalamata, Patras, Aigio, Amaliada, Gythio, Sparta, Tripoli, Nafplio, Argos (Nea Kios) , Corinth and Xylokastro.
PROGRAM IDEA
With the help of a camera, students aged 14-18 are asked to record the role played by their city, as a place of reception for refugees from Asia Minor.
Initially, students should gather information, in the form of research, about the arrival of Asia Minor refugees in their city, historical and statistical data, conduct interviews and search for archival material, if they exist. Student research should move around questions such as:
-How does the new generation see the history of refugees from Asia Minor?
-What have they heard from their parents and grandparents?
-How was the city then? Are the settlements still there?
-Do they (the students) themselves originate from Asia Minor? And if so, are there any family photos, heirlooms or documents left in their family?
Assisting in the research for further historical data and information, will be the collaborator of the Creative Documentary Center, the historian Michalis Varlas.
After the completion of the research, the shooting process will follow, with the help of the Creative Documentary Center. The shooting (lasting 2 days max) will be done with a professional camera and with the help of a Documentary Festival technician, for each student, lasting 5 to 7 minutes. Shooting must be completed by May 20th, 2022 at the latest.
Then, all the works of the students will be edited in the final editing by the Festival's editors, in order to create a complete modular documentary that will be screened in a special ceremony in August and September 2022 in collaboration with all the cities of the Festival network.
For more information and participation in the program, those interested can contact the Creative Documentary Center of Kalamata, at 2721022376 and 6944786872 or by email at peldocfest@gmail.com.
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