Meet the Neighbors

At last, after almost one and half a year of hard work, our epic documentary film, Neighbors, is ready to go.

This was probably the heaviest project that we ever worked on, in many ways; the subject of Armenian-Turkish relationships is something not everyone would risk to work on, but we were stupid ambitious enough not only to work on it, but to go to the actual borders and film people living on the edge of two different civilizations for a whole year. We had to deal with two different governments who have no diplomatic relations with each other, worked with national security, three different armies, got arrested and taken to the court, and generally we managed to drive a number of governmental institutions mad. Despite all the adventures, we did everything to make a very interesting and emotional story and present you the colorful characters of nice, controversial, funny and crazy people that you’ll love.

Once again, I would like to thank all the people who worked very hard on this film; thanks to Moushegh and David, the cruel cameramen, and Narek, who assisted them; to Tzovinar and Gayane for an outstanding soundtrack and performance; to Nesra, who put all the efforts for the film with love and devotion; to Tim Straight, who followed every single day of the work on the film and supported it in all the possible ways, to all Manana, where every single person was doing everything to help us on the most difficult periods of the project, to Paros Foundation for support and guidance, and of course, the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Golden Apricot Film Festival and Anadolu Kultur, the sponsors and supporters of this film. Thanks for being crazy enough to believe that this initiative can come true.

So, Neighbors’ premiere screening will take place in Istanbul on April 12th, in frames of Istanbul International Film Festival, those who are there or plan to attend the festival, make sure to be there. If you forget to buy a ticket, or will have any problems getting inside, or will need any kind of help, please make sure not to ask me for anything. And don’t look for me. And I don’t know you. Leave me alone. Ehm, sorry, it’s just something left from the screenings of The Third Rider. Don’t pay attention.

The film is not available online or on DVD-s yet, but it will be later this year, so don’t forget to check our website regularly.

Moving a Mountain is available for watching

So, finally Moving a Mountain is available for watching on our website for only $1,99! This is the first film that is available for sale on our website, but soon some others will be online, too.

The principle of paying for a view on our website is very simple; you go to the Watch the film page, click play, select the way you prefer for paying, and the film will be available for you for 48 hours. In HD quality, by the way. I know, I know, no need to thank us, it’s ok.

As about the payment methods, right now you can purchase it with PayPal or Amazon accounts. If you don’t have an account in any of these services, no need to burst into tears; PayPal supports payments with credit and debit cards even without opening an account, so, it will take only a minute from you.

Almost forgot; if you really like the film and want to have it in your personal collection, you can order the DVD on Moving a Mountain's Indieflix page for only $5,95.

As about agreements concerning public screenings and other events, it’s better to get in touch with us personally.

Moving a Mountain wins The Best Documentary Film award

While we’re working our Final Cuts off on finishing Neighbors (I’ve tried to jump out the window after another sleepless night, but couldn’t open it), Moving a Mountain makes us happy and gives another reason not to break the keyboards in desperation, while deadlines approach us rapidly.

We accidentally found out that Moving a Mountain has won The Best Documentary Film award in FiLUMS International Film Festival in Pakistan. As we haven’t been informed about it, I almost fell off the chair when read about it in Herald Tribune this morning.

And the interesting detail is that it's not the short documentary nomination, but the whole documentary category, although the film is only 20 minutes long.

Well, so far the festival circuit of this film goes quite well, but we probably need to read more newspapers from now on.

I feel people pulling me off the computer, showing the amount of work left, shouting on me and hitting me with a calendar with a lot of dates marked red on it, and, in general, insulting and abusing me, so, back to work!

Review of The Third Rider in Asbarez

It appears that Asbarez.com has published a review of one of our films, The Third Rider. The article is very interesting and well-written, and, what was most important, the writer went through all the most important points of what we tried to express with the film, which made us all feel quite happy, since this is so far the most controversial (although... wait until you see Neighbors) film our studio has made, and all the feedback both from the audience and from media were either very good, or extremely criticizing.

And I personally, as the director of the film, was especially happy for the following sentence, which proves the experiments we did with the documentary genre in that film weren’t in vain.

“While remaining true to the most basic understanding of documentary as a factual sub-genre of film, The Third Rider, like Barking Island, uneasily straddles the line between fact and fiction, history and narrative.”

Neighbors Premiere Screening in April

Last couple of months were the period of intensive editing of Neighbors. And now, when it’s already more than a year that our studio has been working on this project, the film is almost done. And while most of us are busy with the final corrections in the editing, soundtrack and other aspects of the film, I am happy to announce that the date of the world premiere screening of Neighbors is already set, thanks to Anadolu Kultur, one of the supporter organizations of the project; it will be screened on April 12th, at 19:00 in Istanbul, in frames of Istanbul International Film Festival.

That will be quite an event!