TIME magazine readers
voted protesters—from Occupy Wall Street to the violent streets of
Athens—as Person Of The Year and “DECEMBER RIOTS,” written,
produced and directed by Dimitri Vorris, depicts exactly that.
The film's epicenter is
the cold-blooded execution of 15 year-old student Alexander
Gregoropoulos by two policemen in a downtown Athens café on December
6, 2008. "December Riots," is a film about the
Gregoropoulos killing, an incident that sparked riots in over seventy
cities and twenty-two countries worldwide including the US. The
filmmaker acquired exclusive access to never-before-seen court
documents and evidence from the trial that followed Gregoropoulos’s
killing. The independently financed, claustrophobic thriller, focuses
on a group of Europeans and Americans trapped in an art-house movie
theater in downtown Athens during the 2008 riots.
