"You have to stand up for yourself. They'll step all over you." This outstanding, empathetic, moving short film has already been picking up plenty of awards and is now thankfully available to watch online. Green is a short film written & directed by Suzanne Andrews Correa, set in New York. An undocumented Turkish pedicab driver named Green unwittingly draws police attention, endangering his brother, his community, and himself. It won the U.S. Fiction Short Film Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and it certainly deserves it. Green stars Aziz Çapkurt and Erol Afsin - each with a stellar performance, making this even more gripping to see. This short is worth your attention, take just a few minutes to watch. Thanks to Short of the Week for the tip. Description from Vimeo: "An undocumented Turkish pedicab driver unwittingly draws police attention, endangering his brother, his community,...
- 11/18/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Two years ago, Suzanne Andrews Correa and Mustafa Kaymak were making final preparations to shoot “Green,” a heartrending story about two brothers who must contend with the possibility of deportation and endure the physical and emotional pain of racial violence.
But casting on the short film, a finalist in TheWrap’s ShortList film festival, proved to be an unexpected challenge — but for reasons out of their control. In an on-the-nose turn of events, one of the lead actors — Erol Afsin, a German citizen of Turkish descent who plays the title character — was initially denied a visa to the U.S. because he had visited one of the Muslim-majority countries that were targeted by the administration’s immigration ban. It wasn’t until the day before the shoot began that Andrews Correa knew whether Afsin could come to the U.S. for the film.
Still, finding actors who shared the...
But casting on the short film, a finalist in TheWrap’s ShortList film festival, proved to be an unexpected challenge — but for reasons out of their control. In an on-the-nose turn of events, one of the lead actors — Erol Afsin, a German citizen of Turkish descent who plays the title character — was initially denied a visa to the U.S. because he had visited one of the Muslim-majority countries that were targeted by the administration’s immigration ban. It wasn’t until the day before the shoot began that Andrews Correa knew whether Afsin could come to the U.S. for the film.
Still, finding actors who shared the...
- 8/8/2019
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
Filmmaker Ali Vatansever arrived at Tiff (a Discovery programme selection) with his sophomore film — a feature that our Nicholas Bell suggested “should be classified as a moral fable of our times and yet there’s nothing fablelike about it.” In a backdrop of construction and featuring the collapse of more than just family homes, Turkish entry Saf sees a husband and wife team in thesps Erol Afsin and Saadet Isil Aksoy (she was featured in Semih Kaplanoglu’s Egg and Milk) driven to the brink of desperation. We had the opportunity to photograph the filmmaker and his two stars.…...
- 9/26/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
America isn’t the only country with a portion of its population rejecting refugee clemency. It’s also not the only one blinded to its hate when confronting the matter. Because that’s what it is to look down on someone worse off than you: hate. Blaming immigrants for “stealing” jobs and “ruining” neighborhoods exemplifies resentment. Just because your community backs this thought process doesn’t make it any less a product of bigotry, racism, and baseless entitlement. Suddenly citizens sympathetic to these outsiders struggling to survive on a basic human level are labeled traitors and made into enemies themselves. Soon enough life becomes “us versus them” until even the righteous must fall prey to desperation.
It’s this unfortunate reality that lies at the back of Ali Vatansever’s Turkey-set Saf. He introduces us to Istanbul’s Fikirtepe district, an area in the midst of an extreme gentrification-fueled overhaul...
It’s this unfortunate reality that lies at the back of Ali Vatansever’s Turkey-set Saf. He introduces us to Istanbul’s Fikirtepe district, an area in the midst of an extreme gentrification-fueled overhaul...
- 9/20/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Doc & Film International, the Paris-based sales outfit whose slate includes this year’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not and 2017 Oscar-nominee Fire At Sea, has boarded sales on Toronto Discovery world premiere Saf.
We can reveal the subtle and very watchable first trailer for the sophomore film from Turkish writer-director Ali Vatansever (One Day Or Another) which weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal. Erol Afsin (Girls Of The Sun) and Saadet Isil Aksoy (Twice Born) star as a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the industry destroying their Istanbul neighborhood in order to pay the rent. ‘Saf’ is Turkish for pure, simple or naive.
Toronto’s Director of Programming Kerri Craddock has described the pic as “achingly resonant” and “a special achievement.”
Doc & Film MD Daniela Elstner told us, “Thanks to its sharp mise-en-scène and its very dynamic storytelling set in contemporary Istanbul,...
We can reveal the subtle and very watchable first trailer for the sophomore film from Turkish writer-director Ali Vatansever (One Day Or Another) which weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal. Erol Afsin (Girls Of The Sun) and Saadet Isil Aksoy (Twice Born) star as a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the industry destroying their Istanbul neighborhood in order to pay the rent. ‘Saf’ is Turkish for pure, simple or naive.
Toronto’s Director of Programming Kerri Craddock has described the pic as “achingly resonant” and “a special achievement.”
Doc & Film MD Daniela Elstner told us, “Thanks to its sharp mise-en-scène and its very dynamic storytelling set in contemporary Istanbul,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Mustang Cohen Media Group Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: A- Director: Deniz Gamze Erguven Written by: Deniz Gamze Erguven, Alice Winocour Cast: Gunes Nezihe Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan, Ilayda Akdogan, Nihal Koldas, Ayberk Pekcan, Erol Afsin Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 11/12/15 Opens: November 20, 2015 Turkish girls just wanna have fun too! So what’s the problem? The adults, as usual. “Mustang,” which deals with this theme, is France’s entry to the Academy Awards competition (director Deniz Gamze Erguven lives in France—but really, this should have been the Turkish entry). We usually think of Turkey as one of the more [ Read More ]
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- 11/13/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Short film fest, The St Kilda Film Festival has announced its award nominees across 18 categories. Winners will be announced on Sunday 27 May
The announcement:
Now in its 29th year the St Kilda Film Festival’s (Skff) Top 100 competition recognises and awards local filmmakers of all levels of experience who excel in creative and craft and who show potential for growth within the industry.
From an increasingly competitive field of entrants, 62 nominees are in the running for 18 prestigious awards and their share of $40,000 of cash and in-kind prizes, with the winner of the Best Film being awarded $10,000 cash.
The nominations for the 2012 Best Short Film include: At The Formal (Directed by Andrew Kavanagh & Produced by Ramona Telecican). Peekaboo (Directed by Damien Power & Produced by Joe Weatherstone) The Palace (Directed by Anthony Maras & Produced by Anthony Maras, Kate Croser, Andros Achilleos) and Transmission (Directed by Zak Hilditch & Produced by Liz Kearney)
Nominees...
The announcement:
Now in its 29th year the St Kilda Film Festival’s (Skff) Top 100 competition recognises and awards local filmmakers of all levels of experience who excel in creative and craft and who show potential for growth within the industry.
From an increasingly competitive field of entrants, 62 nominees are in the running for 18 prestigious awards and their share of $40,000 of cash and in-kind prizes, with the winner of the Best Film being awarded $10,000 cash.
The nominations for the 2012 Best Short Film include: At The Formal (Directed by Andrew Kavanagh & Produced by Ramona Telecican). Peekaboo (Directed by Damien Power & Produced by Joe Weatherstone) The Palace (Directed by Anthony Maras & Produced by Anthony Maras, Kate Croser, Andros Achilleos) and Transmission (Directed by Zak Hilditch & Produced by Liz Kearney)
Nominees...
- 5/24/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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