JEAN documentary short Official Trailer

Documentary directed by: Julia Speropoulos

Year of Production: 2017 Running Time: 19’

FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS
• Winner of Best First Film of a Director at the 4th International Documentary Film Festival Ierapetra, 2017, Crete.
• Winner of Special Mention at the Athens Digital Film Festival AIDFF, 2018, Athens Greece.
• Official Selection at Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona/NYC/Paris, 2017, Barcelona Spain.
• 3rd place at the 4th Peloponnisos Doc Festival in the category Greek Documentary, Kalamata, Greece 2018.
• Official Selection in the competitive program of the 7th Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, Greece 2018.
• Official Selection at ROMA CINEMA DOC, February 2017, Rome, Italy.
• Official Selection at MINDIE Miami Independent Film Festival, April 2017, Miami, Florida, USA.
• First Selection at the International Short Film Festival Kalmthout, Belgium, 2017
• The film has been comissioned by Greek public channel ERT.
SYNOPSIS
Jean is a 55-year-old Rastafarian man from France. On his 18th birthday, bitter from childhood memories, he left his adopted home. Guided by his Rastafari faith, with just a backpack on his shoulder, he decided to explore the world. His travels brought him to Puerto Rico, Spain and Italy. Then, his story changed 30 years ago, when he arrived in a small Greek city called Pylos Messinia. He decided to stay and has made himself a most unconventional home for himself since then. Living in a trailer home given to him by tourists, without running water or electricity, he struggles every day, facing obstacles to get by, things we consider simple chores. Even travelling is a difficulty, since he has to commute back and forth between his home and the town using his bicycle, regardless of the weather. Even though he has chosen to live in a natural way, he is still an active member of a society: As a farmhand he harvests olives and attends to citrus trees. He works with craftsmen and as a hired hand he helps locals with household chores. For the past 30 years Jean has chosen to live away from the civilization that everyone considers to be modern technology, mass media and processed food.
Jean dreams of visiting Ethiopia, the birthplace of his religion, to further connect to his roots in «Zion», mother Africa.

Website:
https://www.juliasperopoulos.com/jean
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/JEAN-Documentary-Film-408428932825191/

Credits list
Producer: Julia Speropoulos
Director: Julia Speropoulos
Editor: Alexandra Masmanidi
Screenplay: Julia Speropoulos
Assistant director: Olga Moraiti
Camera: Julia Speropoulos
Boom operator: Tim.D.
Sound design: Vassilis Vassilakis
Post Production: 2/35