Ms Gedeon was the only Australian or Lebanese national to receive the award at the annual 100 Successful Women in Business convention in London this week. She has been recognised for her outstanding achievements as CEO of both GDR Media Group, a Sydney-based marketing and distribution agency, and Dream Creations International, a film production company. The award also acknowledged the groundbreaking success of her second documentary Enough! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour, “an expose of how the country [Lebanon] has fallen into chaos,” as described by Patrick Frater for Variety.
Enough! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour tackles many of the challenging issues that have led Lebanon to recently erupt in violence as its people reach their breaking point after decades of corruption and criminal mismanagement of public institutions. It has won 19 international film festival awards, including the Better World Fund’s Movie That Matters Award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Most recently the film swept 5 categories at the Wisdom Tree International Film Festival in Maharashtra, India and received Runner Up for the Supreme Award, Best Australian Director and Best Australian Documentary at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Ms Gedeon is also being honoured in the September/October issue of Industry Era Women Leaders magazine as one of the 10 Most Influential Women Leaders of 2022. GDR Media Group has been shortlisted to feature in MarTech Outlook APAC magazine’s upcoming Top 10 Multichannel Marketing Agencies in APAC 2022 issue.
Enough! will be featured in the Lebanese Film Festival in Sydney on the 7th of September. For more information visit lff.org.au/film/enough-lebanons-darkest-hour/.
