Crowdfunding for EAVE projects THE SKY ABOVE US and DUST CLOTH
Crowdfunding April 2014
CTM Pictures crowdfunding for EAVE 2010 project THE SKY ABOVE US
NATO started a large-scale air campaign to destroy the Yugoslav military infrastructure, hitting on both military and civilian targets including the local TV station. The bombings lasted for 78 days. THE SKY ABOVE US does not touch on the politics or details behind the war. Instead it forms the backdrop for a human story portraying how Ana, Sloba & Bojan react and cope with the fear from the nightly attacks.
THE SKY ABOVE US is an authentic, contemporary drama about the bombing of Belgrade in 1999. Ana, Sloba and Bojan: three different people, three different ways of hanging onto normal life in the most difficult of situations. Every night Belgrade transforms from a vibrant city into a military target. While the bombs fall from the sky above, Ana, Bojan and Sloba struggle with the question: How can I survive and stay sane in this insane world?
The NATO bombings on Belgrade took place 15 years ago. Now 15 years later we are asking your support to help finalize Marinus Groothof's debut film.
More information can be found here: http://ctmlevpictures.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=95e21e6456d10fc4a6d9658f3&id=bbbd597a7e&e=2f03589b01
Ret Film crowdfunding for EAVE 2013 project DUST CLOTH
"We are making a film, and we want to make it a collaborative effort! The challenges of making a film in Turkey need no explaining… It isn’t always easy to tell the stories we want to tell."
EAVE 2013 project TOZ BEZI (DUST CLOTH) is the tale of two women struggling to find a foothold in the city; it is a much-cherished project we have been working on for three years. Over this time, writer-director Ahu Öztürk has drawn on episodes from her own life to weave together and fine-tune a simple, but hugely engaging story. The story centers on Nesrin and Hatun, two women who live in the city outskirts on Istanbul’s Asian shore. Home is a down-at-heel neighborhood under threat of urban regeneration, which the women leave to clean homes in the more upscale center of Kadiköy. Life may have dealt them a rough hand, but they manage for the most part to retain a wry, and often self-deprecating sense of humor. Still, there comes a point where the uphill struggle begins to wear them down. One is tougher, the other more sensitive; one more pragmatic, the other more of a dreamer… The relationships they build with the women they clean for are fraught with dilemmas; and even their own sister-like bond is prone to moments of spite and outright maliciousness…
Dust Cloth is a simple film by women, about women. And like most simple stories, it needs support to be made.
When the project was first launched, Dust Cloth won the CNC Development Award at the Istanbul Film Festival’s Meetings on the Bridge. An EAVE Award followed at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Co-production Market. The project then traveled to the Holland Film Meeting at the Nederlands Film Festival and won production support from the Turkish Ministry of Culture in 2012.
Names lined up for the main cast of Dust Cloth include Nazan Kesal, Asiye Dinçsoy, Serra Yilmaz and Didem Inselel, while Meryem Yavuz will join the creative team as cinematographer. As we said, this is truly a women’s film…
If you think you can support us in kind, or any other way, please drop Ret Film an email to either of the following addresses: nesrag@gmail.com and cigdemmater@gmail.com
See more on our indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dust-cloth-toz-bezi-pacike-toze#home
Page published 6 May 2014. Updated 28 May 2014.
