Panel with FPA President Harry Papachristou, film-makers James Jones and Olivier Sarbil, and journalist Nathalie Savaricas/photo credit:Yorgos Karahalis
The FPA had the pleasure to co-host the premiere of Olivier Sarbil’s award-winning documentary “Mosul” in Greece.
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- Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith (right) introduces filmmakers of “Mosul” (left)
In a packed room, dozens of members of the FPA and the Frontline Freeline Register, a UK-based international journalists’ association, watched the film which depicts the battle to retake the Iraqi city from ISIS and how thousands of civilians were caught in the crossfire.
Q&A with audience from left to right: FPA president Harry Papachristou, producer James Jones, director Olivier Sarbil, journalist Nathalie Savaricas / photo credit:Yorgos Karahalis
In the Q&A that followed, Sarbil and co-director James Jones shared their experiences of working in war zones such as Mosul and discussed the challenges of completing such a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
Following the screening, FPA members had the opportunity to meet members of the Frontline Freeline Register, a new and growing part of the international journalistic community in Athens. They are video-journalists and photographers who have recently moved here from nearby countries in which conditions for independent journalism have deteriorated.
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- Filmmaker Olivier Sarbil answers questions / photo credit:Yorgos Karahalis
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- Film-maker Olivier Sarbil and Mr Hindreen Mustafa of the Iraqi embassy / photo credit:Yorgos Karahalis
Mr Hindreen Mustafa, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Iraqi embassy in Greece also attended the screening which was held at the Bios Romantso cultural center on 27 November 2017.
