Crossroads Catalogue 2009
Crossroads Catalogue 2009 Crossroads Catalogue 2009
Mesopotamia Cinema & Yapim 13Company ProfileEstablished in 1995 by a group of young filmmakers, Mesopotamia Cinema Collective & Yapim 13 has producedabout twenty long, short, fiction, and documentary films among which, a number gained internationalrecognition. Mesopotamia Cinema Collective is also a cinema platform that is active in the filmdistribution as well as cinema trainings and education.Along with Kazım Öz’s, Özkan Küçük’s, and Ahmet Soner’s documentary and fiction films, MesopotamiaCinema Collective’s filmography includes shorts and documentaries produced within the DiyarbakırCinema Workshop.Mesopotamia Cinema Collective latest productions are the fiction film, “The Storm,” directed by Kazım Öz(156 min, 35mm, 2008) and the long feature documentary, “The Last Season: Shawaks,” directed also byKazım Öz (91 min, HD, 2009).Producer’s ProfileAfter graduating from Bogazici University in 2003, she went to the United States of America to study anthropology.She completed her MA in 2005 and now is about to finish her PhD in Anthropology and Communication.Since 2006, she has worked with Mesopotamia Cinema & Yapim 13 as international representativeand producer. In 2009 she produced with Kazım Öz “The Last Season: Shawaks”, a creativedocumentary directed by Kazım Öz. She also teaches film and social theory courses in universities since2006.Suncem KoçerProducerContactName of Company: MesopotamiaCinema & Yapim 13Address: Elmadag Cad. Harbiye Cayiri Sok 3/2Sisli Istanbul Turkey 34373T: +90 212 232 60 63M: +90 506 743 33 87yapim13@hotmail.comwww.mezopotamyasinema.comTURKEYFilmographyThe Last Season: Shawaks (doc), 200937
ROMANIAA Very Unsettled SummerCreditsProduced by: Aparte FilmDirector: Anca DamianScriptwriter: Philip O Ceallaigh, Anca DamianCo-Producers: Zanzibar Film (Ireland)Budget: 952.067 EurosSecured Financing: 20%Anca DamianDirectorContactName of Company: aparte filmAddress: Calea Calarasi 165, Bl.38, sc3, ap21,Bucharest 030614, RomaniaT: +40213204128, M: +40744204437anca.damian@apartefilm.netwww.apartefilm.netSelected FilmographyCrossing Dates, 2008To Be or Not to Be (doc), 2007Liberty Exercise (doc), 2003Porto Franco 2000 (doc), 2001Ion Nicodim – The Earth Passer By(doc), 1998SynopsisThe gathering storms of summer are the background to this unsettling urban story.Daniel receives a story from Maria, his ex-girlfriend. Maria’s story describes the moment when Daniel previouslydumped her, but with a fantasy switch. Maria offers to play the prostitute, to have sex one lasttime, for money.Lured into Maria’s game, Daniel becomes her lover once again. He hides his parallel life from Irina, his presentgirlfriend and the real love of his life. Daniel’s ensnarement in Maria’s story is recounted, this time asa screenplay by Alex, a writer, friend and confidante to both Daniel and Maria.Daniel begins to unravel when he discovers he possesses, at best, only a partial knowledge of his past withMaria. He convinces himself that if he can only author a happy ending to his own story, he can regain controlof his life. But life is not a story…Director’s StatementWhat makes this script special is its profound perspective on the link between life and fiction, wherebyone feeds and fashions the other. The characters, in the style of Pirandello, become aware of being characters;the script in the film becomes the film itself, and the story an absorbing meditation on the powerof storytelling.Through Maria and Alex’s stories about Daniel, the film observes how lived experience is fashioned intoa narrative, which in turn affects real life. This gives the film its depth and unique perspective. But as Mariaand Alex’s stories entangle and develop, Daniel begins to psychologically unravel. Ultimately, A Very UnsettledSummer’s wry take on the way we live, love and lie, gives way to tragedy as Daniel plays a fictionalgame.38
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ROMANIAA Very Unsettled SummerCreditsProduced by: Aparte FilmDirector: Anca DamianScriptwriter: Philip O Ceallaigh, Anca DamianCo-Producers: Zanzibar Film (Ireland)Budget: 952.067 EurosSecured Financing: 20%Anca DamianDirectorContactName of Company: aparte filmAddress: Calea Calarasi 165, Bl.38, sc3, ap21,Bucharest 030614, RomaniaT: +40213204128, M: +40744204437anca.damian@apartefilm.netwww.apartefilm.netSelected FilmographyCrossing Dates, 2008To Be or Not to Be (doc), 2007Liberty Exercise (doc), 2003Porto Franco 2000 (doc), 2001Ion Nicodim – The Earth Passer By(doc), 1998SynopsisThe gathering storms of summer are the background to this unsettling urban story.Daniel receives a story from Maria, his ex-girlfriend. Maria’s story describes the moment when Daniel previouslydumped her, but with a fantasy switch. Maria offers to play the prostitute, to have sex one lasttime, for money.Lured into Maria’s game, Daniel becomes her lover once again. He hides his parallel life from Irina, his presentgirlfriend and the real love of his life. Daniel’s ensnarement in Maria’s story is recounted, this time asa screenplay by Alex, a writer, friend and confidante to both Daniel and Maria.Daniel begins to unravel when he discovers he possesses, at best, only a partial knowledge of his past withMaria. He convinces himself that if he can only author a happy ending to his own story, he can regain controlof his life. But life is not a story…Director’s StatementWhat makes this script special is its profound perspective on the link between life and fiction, wherebyone feeds and fashions the other. The characters, in the style of Pirandello, become aware of being characters;the script in the film becomes the film itself, and the story an absorbing meditation on the powerof storytelling.Through Maria and Alex’s stories about Daniel, the film observes how lived experience is fashioned intoa narrative, which in turn affects real life. This gives the film its depth and unique perspective. But as Mariaand Alex’s stories entangle and develop, Daniel begins to psychologically unravel. Ultimately, A Very UnsettledSummer’s wry take on the way we live, love and lie, gives way to tragedy as Daniel plays a fictionalgame.38
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