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Help wanted: a female caregiver to the rescue

'Help wanted: a female caregiver to the rescue' is a partly autoethnographic experimental film about the female nurses of exclusive duty in Greece. Self-employed nurses provide care to only one patient at a time at the hospitals or/and at homes, covering the gap in terms of exclusive caregiving caused by state inefficiencies. The majority of the nurses of exclusive duty are women and immigrants while some of them work illegally with or without a nursing diploma. Through online conversations and poetic montage, Dora Intzirtzi explores the perspectives, experiences, and emotions of three nurses of exclusive duty, and juxtaposes theirs with her experience as a granddaughter of grandparents that were taken care of by a nonprofessional caregiver.

  • Dora Intzirtzi
    Director
  • Dora Intzirtzi
    Writer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Ζητείται γυναίκα να αναλάβει
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 15, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    200 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Leiden University
Director Biography - Dora Intzirtzi

Dora Intzirtzi is a researcher and filmmaker from Athens (Greece), currently based in Rotterdam (Netherlands). She holds a BA in History and Archaeology (NKUA), a Certificate of Attendance in Film studies and an MSc in Visual Ethnography (Leiden University). 'Help wanted: a female caregiver to the rescue' is her forth short documentary and her master's thesis. Her second and co-directed film, 'Made in Absence' was screened on the 9th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival (Ethnofest). Her recent experience of doing a master’s program in Visual Ethnography made her interested in delving more into anthropology, focused on medical anthropology and anthropology of gender.

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