[3] Set in the mid 2000s, Fortunate Son documents Asimakopoulos’ return to his childhood home of Montreal after fleeing to Ottawa in the late 1990s to undergo self-imposed drug rehabilitation.

[4] Over the course of a couple of years, Asimakopoulos turns the camera on the private life of his overbearing mother Vassiliki and ailing father Aristomenis and the patterns of dysfunction they share.

[5] As part of his recovery process, Asimakopoulos aims to gain perspective on his parents’ experience of his troubled youth in hopes that it will guide a new chapter in his life with his partner, Natalie.

[6] Fortunate Son is composed of a medley of cinematic techniques that achieve a distinct style that hinges between that of a traditional documentary film and a Cinéma vérité.

The same year, Asimakopoulos was given a special award by the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, for "Exceptional Services Rendered to Journalism & Cinema".