My Letter To Pippa

  • Ma lettre à Pippa (Pippa'ya Mektubum)
© Courtesy of Asmin Film, 2010
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2010
Format : Feature
Running time : 60 (in minutes)
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Documentary filmmaker Bingöl Elmas decides to shine light on the story of Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered by a truck driver in Turkey during a journey to spread a message of peace, by continuing the artist's trip and filming it to raise awareness about society's attitudes toward women.

"Is there any place in the world where one can communicate without any precautions and trust unconditionally?" Bingöl Elmas (from the film)

My Letter To Pippa is a road movie: The director Bingöl Elmas wants to take the peace torch from the young Ital- ian artist Pippa Bacca, who in a wedding dress, attempted to hitchhike from Rome to Jerusalem. She was raped and assassinated a few kilometers to the east of İstanbul. The tragedy became a national affair. Political leaders, bureau- crats, intellectuals and the media all expressed their reactions while provoking the wrath of a large part of society who reproaches them for their indifference in the face of the repetition of the same act on thousands of the country's female citizens. Bingöl decides to undertake the journey from the spot where the Italian fell up until the Syrian border. But she will wear a black wedding dress. Hitchhiking through the countryside with her subjective camera, she seeks to engage with the representatives and representations of notions like machismo and violence and to make a place for herself as a woman in the very male world of truck drivers. The end product is a documentary that defies expectations. Bingol is not angry, she is not dark, she does not reprimand. She is bright, sincere and at times even humorous as she negotiates that thin line between trying to make sense of what is, and building hope for what might be.

2010, Turkey/France, 60 min

Cast
Bingöl Elmas

In the Serie "The Other Turkey" Designed by Patrice Barrat

Written and Directed by: Bingöl Elmas
Associated Producers: Marie de Mercey, Tuğrul C. Artunkal
Executive Producers: Anne-Marie Cadoz, Béatrice Dirat
Production Manager in France: Sarah Trévillard
Production Manager in Turkey: Hayriye Savaşçıoğlu
Production Assistant in France: Aurélie Herman
Assistant Director: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Director of Photography:Koray Kesik
Camera: Koray Kesik, Bingöl Elmas

Production Team in Turkey: Şirin Bahar Demirel, Hayriye Savaşçıoğlu,
Gülsün Eroğlu Toker, Çiğdem Kesik, Seyhun Orcan Sakallı, Ada Ayşe İmamoğlu

Editing: Pierre Haberer, Mustafa Temiztaş
Editing Assistants: Xavier Mutin, Frédéric Utard

Sound Mixing: Samuel Métivier
Color Correction: Sedat Yılmaz

Original Music: Mustafa Biber
Title Song: Veli Ergül

Set Photographer: Şirin Bahar Demirel

Wedding dress designed by: Neşe Yalçın / Şafak Gelinlik ve Moda Evi
Poster Desing: Tuncay Yılmaz / Karga Reklam
Web Desing: Zuhal Kaynak, Aran Kaynak

Transcriptions and Translations: T. Artunkal, Marie de Thoisy, Aube Giroux, Hakan Paşalı
Transcripts: Dilhun Ekmekçi, Asuman Yaşar, Caner Canerik

Consultant: Mustafa Ünlü

Account: Metin Açar

Distribution: ARTICLE Z / Charlotte Coing-Roy

Program Manager: Marie-Hélène Girod, Christophe Jorg

Co-productions:
ARTICLE Z / Patrice Barrat,
ASMİN FILM / Bingöl Elmas,
ARTE Fransa Haber, Toplum ve Jeopolitik Birimi / Alex Szalat

Asmin Film Production
Address: Molla Gürani Mah. Milet Cad. Akkoyunlu Sok. Yavuzlar Apt.
No: 44 D.5 Fındıkzade - Fatih - İstanbul - 34093
E-mail: mektup(@)asminfilm.com

www.autreturquie.tv
www.otherturkey.tv
© ARTICLE Z / ASMİN FILM / ARTE France - 2010

Festivals
9th AFM International Independant Film Festival
February 2010 - İstanbul, Ankara - Turkey

Cinema City International Film Festival
June 2010 - Serbia

DOCUMENTARIST -Istanbul Documentary Days
June 2010 - Istanbul - Turkey

IV. InternationalRiver Film Festival
July 2010 - Padova - Italy

Romania International Film Festival / Ro - IFF
'CineBlackSea' Section Award for Best Documentary Film
1-10 October - Bucharest - Romania

47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
National Documentary Film Competion
9-14 October 2010 - Antalya - Turkey

12 Mumbai Film Festival
21-28 October 2010 - Mumbai - India

13th International Istanbul 1001 Documentary Film Festival
29 October - 4 November 2010 - Istanbul - Turkey

11 Festival Cinema Meditarraneen de Bruxelles
5-13 November 2010 - Brussels-Belgium

3rd International Documentary Film Festival in Agadir - FIDADOC
International Documentary Film Competion
9-13 November 2010 - Agadir - Morocco

15th Boston Turkish Festival International Documentary and
Short Film Competition.
9-13 December - Boston - USA

Source:
http://2010.ifistanbul.com/en/Movie/pippaya-mektubum
http://www.asminfilm.com/en/Film-detail.aspx?cid=1&mid=6

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TURKISH
"Dünyanın herhangi bir yerinde, hiçbir güvenlik tedbiri almadan iletişim kurmak, koşulsuz güvenmek mümkün mü?" Bingöl Elmas (filmden)

Pippa'ya Mektubum bir yol filmi. Dünya barışı için beyaz gelinlik giyip Milano'dan otostopla yola çıkan Pippa Bacca'nın yolculuğu, Türkiye'de, Gebze Ballıkayalar'da uğradığı saldırıyla çok üzücü bir şekilde sonlanmıştı. Türkiye'nin siyasi liderl- eri, basını ve aydınları olayı kınarken, birçok insan da Türkiye'de binlerce kadının her gün tekrar tekrar maruz kaldığı şiddet olaylarına bu olaydaki kadar güçlü tepki verilmediği için öfkeliydi. Film, Bingöl Elmas'ın yine otostopla, ama bu sefer siyah bir gelinlikle, "Barış Gelini"nin yarım kalan yolculuğuna devam etmesini anlatıyor. Kameralı yolculuk, Pippa'nın son otostop yaptığı yerden başlayıp Suriye sınırında son buluyor. Türkiye yollarında maço kültürün ve şiddetin temsil biçimlerinin ve de temsilcilerinin izini süren Bingöl, erkeklere ait alanlarda, otobanlarda, ve kamyonlarda kadın olarak gezinip hiçbir tacize, tecavüze uğramadan var olabilmek, aynı zamanda da kamyon şoförleriyle Pippa'dan, tacizden, "erkeklikten" bahsetmek istemiş. Ortaya çıkan film, beklenebileceği üzere karanlık bir film değil; Bingöl Elmas film boyunca kızgın değil, asık suratlı değil, amacı birilerini azarlamak ya da birilerine ders vermek de değil. Her zaman samimi ve hatta zaman zaman esprili bir bakışla, hem olanları anlamaya çalışıyor, hem de olabilecekleri hayal ederek umuda selam gönderiyor.

Türkiye - Fransa - 2010 - 60' - Renkli - DigiBeta PAL
Türkçe / İngilizce altyazılı

Yönetmen
Bingöl Elmas

Senaryo
Bingöl Elmas

Görüntü Yönetmeni
Koray Kesik

Kurgu
Mustafa Temiztaş

Oyuncular
Bingöl Elmas

Yapımcı
Patrice Barrat

Prodüksiyon Şirketi
Article Z
Asmin Film
Arte France

Dağıtımcı
Article Z (Charlotte Coing-Roy)

Müzik
Mustafa Biber

Source:
http://2010.ifistanbul.com/tr/Movie/pippaya-mektubum

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