SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna - Film Screening and Q & A with Director Gwaai Edenshaw
SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna - Film Screening and Q & A with Director Gwaai Edenshaw
Wed, Feb 15, 5:30 PM
Carleton University | St. Patrick's Building | Room SP100 • Ottawa, ON
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Movie Screening of “The Play” & A live Q&A with the Director
CATWAO invites you to our Season Opener: Movie Screening of “The Play” & A live Q&A with the Award-Winning Director, Ms. Pelin Esmer
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University of Ottawa, STEM Building Room 117 150 Louis-Pasteur Private Ottawa, ON K1N 9A7 Canada
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The Canadian and Turkish Women’s Association of Ottawa – CATWAO cordially invites you to our Season Opener:
Movie Screening of “The Play” & A live Q&A with the Award-Winning Director, Ms. Pelin Esmer
Sunday, November 27, 2022
2:00 – 4:00 PM
University of Ottawa, STEM Building, Room 117
150 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9A7
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Free for CATWAO members / $7.50 for non-members
We will have a mini reception with delicious Turkish appetizers, courtesy of the Embassy of Türkiye in Ottawa!
The director of "The Play," Ms. Pelin Esmer, will join us live via Zoom.
About “The Play”:
What happens if nine peasant women living in a mountain village in Southern Türkiye one day decide to write and perform their own play? This documentary movie tells the story of Ummuye, Behiye, Ummu, Fatma K., Cennet, Saniye, Fatma F., Zeynep and Nesime, who spend their days working hard in the fields, on the construction site and at home, and their journey of transformation through art. During their epic journey, aspects of their personalities emerge that they never knew existed. This documentary film observes the creative stages leading up to the production of the play and shows us how nine subtly, but significantly different women emerge after its staging.
“The Play” has been screened over 50 festivals around the world and won several awards and recognitions, including The Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award from Tribeca Film Festival (USA), The Best Documentary Film Award from Trieste Film Festival (Italy) and The Best Documentary Film Award from Créteil Women Film Festival (France) among others.
About the award-winning director, Ms. Pelin Esmer:
Ms. Pelin Esmer, writer & director of both fiction and documentary films, started her career in filmmaking after studying sociology in Istanbul. She established her film company Sinefilm, and since 2001 she has made her independent films: The Collector, The Play, 10 to 11, Watchtower, Something Useful and Queen Lear. In 2020 MUBI Turkey and MUBI International presented all of Esmer’s films in Türkiye and abroad with the retrospective titled “Journey to the Heart with Pelin Esmer”. The same year, Istanbul Modern Museum Cinema launched a retrospective of Esmer’s films as part of their “Meeting with the Directors” series. Esmer was invited by the Camargo Foundation to the artist’s residence in Cassis-France in the fall of 2019, where she started to write the script for her new fiction film. Currently, she is working on the development of her new project.