April 16, 2010 "Face2Face" Installation/Performance by Rukiye Sahin
  April 21 - May 2, 2010 Fatih Akin's "Soul Kitchen" at Tribeca Film Festival
  June - July 2010 Summer Residency Program at SVA
  June 2 -September 1, 2010 Istanbul Cool! Exhibition
  September  2010

"Young Photographers Award" winner announcement

           
 
 
 
Moon and Stars Project and The American Turkish Society Present

Crossing Borders: A Cinematic Journey from the West to the East

An In-Depth Conversation on GITMEK / MY MARLON AND BRANDO

Co-Organized with NYU Institute for Artists and Global Change

May 2, 2008
7:00pm - 8:30pm
The discussion will be followed by a one-hour cocktail reception sponsored by Turkish Kitchen.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway (corner of Waverly)
Screening Room 109
New York, NY 10003

"Ebullient…Passionate…Forceful" – Screen International

" A moving statement on war and the confining artificiality of borders" – Variety

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Huseyin Karabey’s feature debut Gitmek / My Marlon and Brando makes its North American Premiere in 2008 Tribeca Film Festival’s World Narrative Feature Competition. Three years ago, in real-life, Hama Ali, a charismatic B movie actor from Iraq, and Ayca, a fiery actress from Turkey, met on a film-set. Their love affair continued across borders through video love letters until the war in Iraq. As people fled from East to West seeking safety, Ayca decided to make the journey from West to East, seeking her lover. My Marlon and Brando, a feature film in which Ayca plays herself, is based on her extraordinary and, ultimately unexpected, experiences in such sad, mad times….

Please join us for an in-depth conversation moderated by Binnaz Saktanber on crossing borders in real life, in filmmaking and cultural understanding with actress-writer Ayca Damgaci, Turkish-American journalist and filmmaker Bilge Ebiri, producer Lucinda Englehart, filmmaker Huseyin Karabey, and film critic Sukhdev Sandhu.

Press Inquiries: Kaan Nazli (212) 941-2752 / kaan@moonandstarsproject.org
 
   


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  Cast & Credits
Director: Huseyin Karabey

Principal Cast: Ayca Damgaci, Hama Ali Khan, Savas Emrah Ozdemir,

Cengiz Bozkurt, Ani Pekkaya, Volga Sorgu Tekinoglu

Screenwriters: Huseyin Karabey, Ayça Damgaci

Producers: Lucinda Englehart, Huseyin Karabey, Sophie Lorant

Editor: Mary Stephen

Co-Producers: Jeroen Beker, Frans van Gestel, Harry Sutherland, Dennis Tal

Director of Photography: A. Emre Tanyildiz

Composers: Kemal S. Gurel, Erdal Guney, Huseyin Yildiz
 
 
  Bilge Ebiri
Bilge Ebiri is a Turkish American film critic and filmmaker. He writes about film for New York Magazine, Bookforum, and Nerve.com. His first feature film, a comedy thriller entitled New Guy, was released in 2004, and he is currently at work on his second.
 
 
  Lucinda Englehart
Film producer, Lucinda Englehart, is based in London but works on co-productions around the world. Having studied Political Science at Cambridge University, she moved to Cape Town. Here, she wrote extensively on the experience of documentary subjects telling their stories of apartheid memory and produced a number of South African feature films and documentaries. She met Huseyin Karabey at the Venice Film Festival and having heard the extraordinary true story told in My Marlon and Brando, came on board to produce this feature film with him.
 
 
  Huseyin Karabey
Regarded as one of the new directing talents in Turkey’s growing independent film scene, Karabey developed My Marlon and Brando with Ayça Damgaci. His previous work includes Boran, a short film that explores the disappearance of 5,000 Turkish political activists in the 1990s by bringing together actual facts and dramatic elements, and the feature-length docudrama Silent Death. His documentary Breath was an exclusive look at Pina Bausch, the world-famous German choreographer. Karabey lectures at universities and cultural organizations in Turkey, and his films have won numerous awards.
 
 
  Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu is the chief film critic of the London Daily Telegraph. He is a Contributing Editor at 'Granta', editor of the journal Texte und Töne, and author of London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined A City (2003) and Night Haunts: A Journey Through Nocturnal London (2007).
 
   
  Ayca Damgaci
  Having studied Dramaturgy and Theater Science at Istanbul University, Damgaci began her professional acting career at Tiyatro Oyunevi (Theater Playhouse) in 1998. She won the Best Actress Award for her performance in My Marlon and Brando at the 27th International Istanbul Film Festival. She is the founder and one of the lead vocals for "Gocebe Sarkilar" (The Nomadic Songs), a music band singing Sephardic, Roman, Armenian, Andalucian, Balkan, and Anatolian songs. Damgaci is currently rehearsing day and night for two theater productions by Bilsak Theater Atelier and Garaj Istanbul.
   
  Binnaz Saktanber
Binnaz Saktanber is the Vice-President of Moon and Stars Project and a PhD student in City University of New York, Graduate Center. She studies new media, democratization, and identity politics in Turkey and in Middle East.
 





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