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7 Days - 7 Women: Vicki Vasilopoulos

On Day 4 of our week-long series, 7 Days - 7 Women, in which we will profile seven strong, talented women working as filmmakers, writers or visual artists, we spotlight the passion and determination of documentary filmmaker, Vicki Vasilopoulos. She's not actually Italian, but we're going to make an exception for Vicki Vasilopoulos because she devoted more than a decade of her life raising funds to tell the stories of three Italian master tailors who made their passion their life. When I interviewed her a few years ago while she was tirelessly fundraising for the film, she told me that her goal was to honor the legacy of these master tailors for a younger generation. For 11 years, Greek-American filmmaker and journalist, Vicki Vasilopoulos labored over a documentary recounting the travails of three master tailors of Italian origin. All those years of hard work and dedication finally paid off. Vasilopoulos completed "Men of the Cloth" and it won a ...