In the footsteps of the Anzacs in Greece...

This is a free event so you do not need a ticket. 

Hellenic New Zealand Congress would like to welcome you to an evening with John Irwin, film maker, on his 34-year journey, documenting significant aspects of the Anzac - Greece relationship. John will show a series of short film clips on various topics including:

• Excerpts from ‘Anzac: The Greek Chapter’ John’s 2024 feature length documentary
• Anzac battle sites in Greece
• The WWI Lemnos Story
• George Devine Treloar and the Pontian refugees
• Excerpt from ‘Unbroken Bonds’ 2006 Pilgrimage to Crete of NZ Veterans
• Excerpts from ‘In Rich Regard’ the1991 documentary on the Crete/NZ relationship
• Excerpts from ‘Stories My Child, Stories’
• Episode 1 of the series ‘Out of Their Own Hands’ on the women of Crete during the German Occupation
• ‘Suda to Alex’. Home movies from the Greek Campaign and the Battle of Crete
• ‘Petros Vlahakis’. 1990 Interview with the artist behind the iconic images of the
• Battle of Crete (the stoning of a German paratrooper)
• ‘Ruth Riordan’s Cretan Journey’. Ruth’s connection with the village of Kousteryerako where her father was sheltered for almost two years.