Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Alethea

documentary / 2007 / 41’ / turkish (english subltitled)

Synopsis:

Since the year of 1989 multinational mining companies have been coming to Turkey in order to mine gold with the cyanide leaching process. Eurogold, an Australian and Canadian joint venture is one of them. Their mine is situated in Bergama. The people living in Bergama and the 17 villages in the surroundings started to resist the project. The people won all the instances of their legal struggle. However, the mine still operates.

The story in the documentary is about the people and their long struggle. We followed their struggle since 1996.

credits:

camera selçuk erzurumlu, ethem özgüven, ulaş beşoklar, tolga kutluay, sinan olcayto, erhan gündüz

music alper maral

sound mixing bülent özcan, serkan çiftçi

visual design gökhan eryaman, tamer karakulak

editing ethem özgüven

production petra holzer / ethem özgüven

translation ahmed elmahi

prod. crew sinan kunter, serkan çifçi, halil kandemir

research petra holzer, ethem özgüven

directors petra holzer, ethem özgüven

thanks banu acun, rıdvan akar, coşkun aral, uygar gürkan, serdar gürmen, halil kandemir, orhan kara

Festival participations / Awards:

Environmental Film Festival Istanbul, 2007 (2nd award for documentary)
The Boston Turkish Film Festival, USA, 2007 (audience award for “best documentary)
German Turkish Film Festival
, Nurnberg, Germany 2007
Cine pobre, Cuba, 2007
International Film Festival, Ankara, 2007
Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival, Ankara, 2007
International Rodos Films and Video Arts Festival, Rhodes, Greece, 2007
International Labor Filmfestival, Istanbul, 2007
Golden Orange International Film Festival, Antalya, 2007
“Cinema Vérité” International Documentary Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, 2007
German Turkish Film Days Stuttgart, Germany, 2007
International Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey, 2008
Turkish Filmdays, Munich, Germany, 2008
International Panorama of Independant Film and Video Makers, Patras, Greece, 2008