{"id":423,"date":"2017-11-06T16:52:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uptothelastdrop.innoweb.gr\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2017-11-22T00:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:58:50","slug":"about-the-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/about-the-director\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yorgos Avgeropoulos is a prominent Greek documentary filmmaker. His work is internationally acclaimed with more than 40 awards in film festivals around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A former war correspondent and frontline reporter, Avgeropoulos turned into documentary filmmaking in 2000. Since then he has created numerous socio-political documentaries in more than 50 countries focusing on inequality, injustice, human rights, environment, immigration and gender issues.<\/p>\n<p>His latest film <em>AGORA \u2013 From Democracy to the Market<\/em> (2015) was broadcasted by many TV networks in Europe, Canada, the Middle East, Asia and Australia and was honored with many awards including with the <em>Rockie Award<\/em> in Banff World Media Festival, the <em>Gold Hugo<\/em>\u00a0in Chicago International Film Festival TV Awards, the <em>Best Documentary<\/em> in Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, and the Otto Brenner Special Award for Critical Journalism of the Otto Brenner Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yorgos Avgeropoulos is a prominent Greek documentary filmmaker. His work is internationally acclaimed with more than 40 awards in film festivals around the world. A former war correspondent and frontline reporter, Avgeropoulos turned into documentary filmmaking in 2000. Since then he has created numerous socio-political documentaries in more than 50 countries focusing on inequality, injustice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-423","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}