Of Two Women One Living in the United States illegally the other with an undocumented mexican husband it was the period just after Donald TrumpsElectoral College victory. After the election i. Dreamt that there were vigil in Tikrit Scarring toward a door in our neighborhood and my son was born and i was holding him in my arms and i was hiding my husband and the floorboards. The Political Tension right now in the us is really heavy and its affecting people in very traumatic ways so making a documentary about these kinds of issues is a way to allow the. These communities to express themselves and to have that platform. Ileana is well acquainted with such stories she also has undocumented friends and relatives all possible texas where she grew up is right on the mexican
ink. Would be an asset. Can i be at my course any having. The reality is that its difficult for a woman of color to make films its still a very sexist and racist industry so. I think its more difficult because sometimes youre not taken seriously trusting your gut knowing that you do have something to say i think thats thats the secret. Of suffolk one of a very few Women Directors lives and works by the principle never stop believing in the power of your own cinematic vision. When i was a kid i always thought being a boy is very but then i changed the saying. Its not necessarily to to be
among two. To be strong. Like specially in the west they always have an idea that women in my country pressed. I dont feel its true because i grew up. In a house where my mum was stronger than my dad song and then my grandmother. For her final University Project must not help with female gender roles. In the eyes of society. And for other. When they see me. Only could read on my forehead. That time either a better. Chris thomas. Or simply a ghost. In a club is a story of a woman with a mean where in a vain. Thinkin or question herself before going to
a honda evil. With her Lover Question what is she is in front of the society and how how people see her inside me mike of a lonely child. Or a loving mother. Or and. I think there is a social vein in all in every society there is a social veil that blocks you from express in and talk in and. You know in the gulf where i grew up we have men where vein in women wherever. Nobody was born. Hispanics. You there are many filmmakers and Muslims Hunt Country and funding is all but
nonexistent. Shes working to change that through a mans only film festival. This arab state is largely desert and still developing both socially and economically culturally its close to the gulf states but with strong african influences. And i come from. A Baluchi Background my my parents spoke always different language than arabic and i went to school and i heard arabic i heard him say hey theyre heard but heard a body which is all those you know if its no languages and i referred its interesting to speak about a man from a different point of view. Must not decided to shoot her second film ends and about a former overseas colony of a man two half brothers meet. Ending up in a facility or for one of them grow up in a scot
a mans prosperous capital the other an impoverished zanzibar the two brothers and two countries are connected by family and history. As a filmmaker must strive to reflect a countrys Cultural Diversity devoid of cliches. If you will use. It towards my country towards the region where i come from. But how to support Filmmaking Finance Productions that dont fit existing definitions. For that it takes courageous producers like a to make back. The director has given birth to
this idea that is the movie and my job is to make sure that it has all of the things that it needs to be successful and sometimes thats money and sometimes that other creative partners about say good composer if thats an editor and sometimes its just taking the phone call at three oclock in the morning from the director whose panics that were just never going to finish theres. No ward winning producer of independent films and the United States. Among them are quirky animations. To cure your impotence you want me to Implant Go Testicle indeed. It can be worse than im not. And short subjects about Women Comedians struggling to make it. You know you have some. Please welcome the stage and next performer now the
tally. Makes a statement and everybody you know and provocative Sports Documentaries not giving anything right. Now before it was charged with Robbery Possession and. Go want to be like Everybody Knows make cake and won an emmy for this documentary about American Social realities. Ive got the tattoo for every feature ive done and i like the idea that theyve changed me and so i want to mark each one with a physical change its about a Football Team and so ive got their team cheer tattooed on my ankle and a crown because theyre kings really whenever she can hit the makes it a point to hire women for her film projects. Its about she knows from experience what it means to try to make it in a male to male. I think one of the secrets of being successful as
a female producer is to be constantly working to eliminate female from that description i really set about the idea that in the future i wont have to be actively hiring women in order to advance their careers because it will just be taken for granted that everyone is being judged on their merit. We also need cuts and patience especially now in the us take the next inconvenient political topics as an adversary you know what the next c. E. O. We are. Its a No Holds Barred documentary about a republican and trump supporter the place Frosted New Split racist statements. Those things that he said in our Voice Calling for the death of our President Phone mag coude disease said that his wife i will first Lady Michelle looks like a man and she should go back to africa and play with the gorilla in the cage for
him to Say Something like that so freely. It causes me to become an angry black man. I tolerated a lot of things over the years. But what i would never tolerate such bobo conscious disrespect of hatefulness towards another human being simply because of the color skin. As a Producer Working in the time of trumpets just its a little anxiety inducing because im worried about were watching the rights being taken away from group after group and im sort of wondering when its coming for us. To finance such films and also produces Light Entertainment shows for t. V. Thats the reality of independent film very few can make a living from it. How many compromises do women have to make. Twenty four year old at best john is
a turkish actor. That rolls an Award WinningFeature Films but her bread and butter has long being shallow daytime serials. Most of his stories are being told by a male perspective mostly im the ailing with. People that i all dated and forty fifty years old so they can be buried i feel like im being devalued by them sometimes i feel like. They dont really care about what im thinking what im saying. When out is given more Acting Freedom the characters she creates can be highly complex personalities nonconformist and vulnerable. Miami sunshine was a. Growing up solely of a young man. Who lives in the lawless and why meant and. Rebellion against his bad for. Shes being heard by her in my home and by the people around her and she. She doesnt experience loud. Addiction welcome thank you i dont see it. I told him son. Its. You cannot. Get you. Know but if. She tries to. Run away from that well then like to go thanks for what. I feel like
my political opinion might be more important than my skills. I am political person but in our days i have i dont feel myself there comfortable about. Telling my political opinion in and publicly. That is i had the privilege im like im feeling myself there like you and proud that i could take part of these projects that also shows where im standing what im standing for. As she did in must time the story of five sisters who were too rebellious for rural turkey. And innocent game with some boys takes a disastrous turn. The decision is that. The girls all looked up abused and forced into marriages. But they dont give up. Its none Frenching Examination of Tucker Society which under president other one is drifting towards extremes masculine muslim im assortments. This talk is french coproduction was acclaimed in many countries but in turkey it was of course highly controversial. And. I was feeling very powerful while we were shooting it like. As of weeks. I picked the control of the world you know and that we could link brand then how. Could. She you know. We can do more films that doesnt object to. Them as subjects dont show them as victims but like as figures that they can speak up for themselves. For a long time that has not been the case. And amazing a lot of on the vehicle takes things to extremes until they reach critical mass. Yes. Hear a woman is formed from Modeling Clay God makes her according to his own absurd ideas and. Moving stories that raise disturbing questions now has our own way of presenting them to film questions of violence against women. And then there had happened a rape case in. Which which had. Disturbed me a lot so i wanted to make something about that. I was interested by the by standers effect which means thats the more people are present in the situation of violence the less big the chance that someone will intervene. Ignorance
apathy and the fine cracks and how well oiled affluent society. Laura expresses things like these in a seemingly naive cinematic language which only makes the stories disturbing. In paradise refugees trying to cross the mediterranean while overworked europeans travel to those very countries for a couple of weeks vacation. Our power to ice their how. Can. You imagine the situation in which your puppets are in so for example a Voice Animating the moments of the puppets in the boat the refugee folks. You kind of imagine yourself in in this boat as well in the situation so i was thinking if i was in this boat together with these other people what would i do. But empathy carries a certain risk Simple Truths implied simple answers. Theres something tricky about these. Teams because you theres a danger of becoming moralistic. Or cynic and thats the trap i want to avoid. They make uncomfortable films that a term and to go their own way but these women are still a long way from their destination. The weinstein scandal in the me too movement
have set wheels in motion and these women filmmakers are helping to move them. On his next film is a very personal one the story of a grandfather that will follow his footsteps from mexico to the United States financing projects like this is never easy but shes optimistic. This year is actually really promising to see for example the first female cinematography soon the first female cinematographer to be nominee for an oscar i mean its amazing right but its twenty eight teams. Take wow big you know that should have happened years ago. Burke uses every opportunity to find an audience for her films festivals theaters and online but shed like much more. My i mean lives in my moms house and she keeps asking for i me to get a Boyfriend Serge be really nice if his name could be oscar. Callid continues to
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