Hey Neighbour!

Urban transformation, which is a need and necessity, has been practiced in such a develop mentalist and profiteer way in my country that our living spaces have been cluttered. People have been either forced to move or left alone with credit debts. It has been luxury to talk about ecology, environment, historical heritage and cultural fabric under these conditions. I see the destructive results of this transformation in my own living spaces and I am exposed to them.

One of the results of the urban transformation is the disappearance of the old neighborhoods. Together with the neighborhoods, their lifestyle, culture and traditional structure have changed unnaturally. The communities that have no relations with each other happened to find themselves side by side. Wealth and poverty became neighbors. They have become so close that it is impossible to ignore each other. I am talking about a neighborhood of residences and shanties. There are plenty of contrasts and tensions in this neighborhood. This is merely the embodiment of the suffocated system.

I would like to catch the attention of decision makers and implementers especially nowadays when the cities and our living spaces are changed and designed rapidly. Moreover, I would like to stake a claim to my own living space and city and raise awareness among the people who are dragged away in this period and on the verge of an important decision about their life. I aim at giving clues about what this course of events will result in and providing the inspiration for universities or organizations to do some research in this field. I want to remind the opinion leaders who have the right to speak about the cities of the “slow cities” and traditional and authentic architecture.

Written and Directed by

Bingöl Elmas

Filme Katılanlar – Participants

Aleaddin Koç, Mehmet Susam, Blanca, Mustafa Tezeren,

Sevinç Bektaş, Nevin Bektaş, Enver Güven

Menekşe Davulcu, Suna Davulcu “Feriköy’ün Çocukları” Feriköy Childrens

Pembe Evi Seslendiren – Voice of Pink House Narrated by

Hale Akınlı

Kameraman – Cameraman

M. Eren Bozbaş, Koray Kesik

Kurgu – Editing

Uğur Hamidoğulları

Özgün Müzik – Original Music

Nejla Melike Atalay

Danışman – Consultant

Mustafa Ünlü

Ses – Sound Recordist

Uğur Hamidoğulları, Özkan Arınkal

Ses Düzenleme – Sound Editing

Uğur Hamidoğulları

Görsel Efekt, Jenerik Visual Effects and Credits

Ali İlhan

Renk Düzenleme – Color Editing

Simge Baskın – Karıncalar Yapım – Karıncalar Production

Yönetmen Asistanı – Assistants to theDirector

İmren Tubcil

Ses Dökümü – Transcription

Alev Elmas

İngilizce Çeviri – Translation into English

Gülşen Altun

Muhasebe – Accounting

Metin Açar

Özel Teşekkür – Special Thanks to

Ulaş Tosun, Ülkü Solak, Bengü Aksoyoğlu, Oya Denizer, Dilek Güven

Korhan Demirel Nadir Demirel, Figen Günel, Zeynep Ünal

Taner Sarf, Mehmet Eryılmaz, Sedat Yılmaz, Ercan Erdemir

Ayşe Koç, Halide Koç, Mert Şenel, Müge Şenel, Uğur Kanar, Gamze Kanar

Sabriye Şimşek, Mehmet Çelik, Doğuş İhsan Demir Sultan İlhan, Çiğdem Kesik, İmren Tübcil

Elmas Ailesi: Zeycan, Cemil, Alev

Katkılarından Dolayı teşekkürler- Special Thanks for the Contrubutions

Belgesel Sinemacılar Birliği (BSB),? “Belgesel Film Proje Pişirme Atölyesi – Pitching in Istanbul”

Peri Johnson, Nalan Sakızlı Marijke Rawie, Mikael Opstrup, Audrius Stonys

Mithat Alam Film Merkezi – Mithat Alam Film Center

Özgür Küçüktülü, Özge Akkoyunlu Ebubekir Çetinkaya,

Şirin Bahar Demirel Volkan Girgin, Celile Toyon, Tuba Erdem Yapım

Production Asmin Film ©asminfilm  – September 2014

Sales Agent: Hakan Paşalı  – mektup@asminfilm.com

AWARDS

4^th PELICAM International Film Festival

Black Sea Docs Award 2015 – Special Mention

11-14 June 2015, Tulcea, România

4 ^th International Film Festival Of ” Lake Van’

Best Documentary Award

6-12 December 2015, Van, Turkey

10^th Boston Turkish Festival Documentary Film Competition,

Documentary Special Mentions

6-14 November 2015, Boston, USA

FESTIVALS 

9^th “Cinema Verite” Iran International Documentary Film Festival  

13-19  December 2015 , Tehran, Iran

5 ^th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival

16- 27 March 2016, São Paulo, Brazil

18 ^th CinemAmbiente, Environmental Film Festival

Int. Competition One Hour Best Medium Lenght Documentary

6- 11 October 2015, Turin, Italy

34^th Int. Istanbul Film Festival National Documentary Competion

9-19 April 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

2^nd İnternational Film Festival UrbanEye

November, 2015, Bucharest, România

10^th Annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest)

International Documentary Competion

30 April- 7 May, 2015, Los Angeles, USA

The 3rd Edition of the Environmental Film Festival in Albania (EFFA)

Internationa Long Movies Competion

16-23 May 2015, Albenia

26^th Ankara International Film Festival

National Documentary Film Competition

23 April – 03 May 2015, Ankara

40^th International Film Festival Ekotopfilm – Envirofilm 2015

25-29 May 2015, Bratislava, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

7^th Sofia MENAR Film Festival

15 January – 1 February 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria
18^th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival

2-17 May 2015, Ankara, Turkey

14 ^th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheel 

12-20 March,Turkey

8 ^th DOCUMENTARIST İstanbul Documentary Days

13-18 June 2015, İstanbul

10^th International Labor Film Festival

1-7 May 2013, İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir,  Diyarbakır, Turkey

1. İstanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival

2-9 October 2015, İstanbul

2^nd International Zeugma Film Festival
2-9 November 2014, Gaziantep, Turkey