AIN’T NO CINDERELLAS
Külkedisi Değiliz

In Competition

Directed by Emel Çelebi
Doc. / 53 min. / 2014

Synopsis

"Housekeeper", Emel Celebi's documentary in 2006, told the story of women making their living by cleaning other people's houses. "Ain't No Cinderellas" continues to tell the stories of these women, who work in jobs for years with no social security, have occupational accidents, become disabled, and even die by falling from windows while cleaning. This is the story of women, who have been invisible because they do an invisible work, and their struggle to establish a union by fighting for their rights through demonstrations in buses, squares, market places, as well as outside the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, chanting "Tale is over! We ain't no Cinderallas, we are laborers! We want our rights!'...

Selected Festivals and Awards

* Sarajevo Best RCB Project Dealing with Human Rights, FIFDH, Geneva, Switzerland
* Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey
* International Labor Film Festival
* Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
* Documentarist, Istanbul, Turkey
* Aegean Docs, Greece
* Cinedoc Tbilisi, Georgia

Emel ÇELEBİ

Emel Çelebi was born in Istanbul in in 1966. Her first film, “Housekeeper”, received many awards, including Best Documentary in the 43th Antalya Film Festival, First Prize in the 9th Seoul Women Films Festival. The film was finalist in the 2007 Boston Turkish Festival Documentary and Short Film Competition. Her next documentary, “Lilit’s Sisters”, received the Best Balkan Documentary in the 8th Docufest in Prizren, Kosovo. Emel Çelebi is one of the founders of Documentarist – Istanbul Documentary Days.

Filmography as director:

Ain’t No Cinderellas / Külkedisi Değiliz (doc., 2014)
Lilit’s Sisters / Lilit’in Kızkardeşleri (doc., 2008)
Housekeeper / Gündelikçi (doc., 2006)