Alethea - Hakikat - by Petra Holzer Ozguven Ethem Ozguven - 12th Boston Turkish Arts and Culture Festival Program - 12. Boston Turk Kultur ve Sanat Festivali Programi

Colors of Anatolia

OCTOBER 29 - DECEMBER 15, 2007

DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Saturday - November 24, 2007 at 9 p.m.

Main Auditorium
Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge
Directions

In Competition

ALETHEA

Hakikat

Directed by Petra Holzer Ozguven and Ethem Ozguven

Documentary / Turkey / 2007 / 41 min.
In Turkish with English subtitles

Multinational corporations have been taking out licences to use cyanide in gold mining since 1989-1990. The film, which traces this process from the beginning and documents it since 1995, tells of the resistance of the natives from 17 villages in and around Bergama for the last 17 years.

Directors PETRA HOLZER OZGUVEN and ETHEM OZGUVEN:

PETRA HOLZER OZGUVEN studied Media/Communication Studies and Theater/Film/Media at the University of Vienna. Lives and works as documentary maker and researcher in Istanbul. Currently she works on projects at Karsi Sanat Calismalari.

ETHEM OZGUVEN is a video and documentary maker. Many of his videos were chosen for the finals in international festivals. His work was screened in more than 40 countries. In the last few years he also made spots promoting topics with social contents. He created alternative teaching models for intercultural groups in video making. He teaches in various universities since 1992. He is instructor for documentary and audiovisual production at Bilgi University in Istanbul