Tolga Karaçelik
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“We Would Have Welcomed Some Chaos As Relief”: Director Tolga Karaçelik | Butterflies
As you made your film during the increasingly chaotic backdrop of the last year, how did you as a filmmaker control, ignore, give in to or, conversely, perhaps creatively exploit the wild and unpredictable? What roles did chaos and order play in your films? “Chaos… I shot my film in 18 days, two different cities and two different countries. When I learned I was blacklisted in my home country and that I wouldn’t be getting any state funding, I didn’t realize it meant that I had to shoot this film – 90 something pages – in 18 days. So I […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 26, 2018 -
“Making a Film is All About Balancing your Fears”: Ivy | Director Tolga Karaçelik
What fear — whether it’s personal, or one related to the development, financing, production or distribution of your film — did you have to confront and conquer in the making of your movie? I can’t name only one fear but can name lots of them, because film making is a long process that changes you slowly in every step. I can say that making a film is all about balancing your fears. In the writing process you have the fear of being true to your first instinct, what made you write this story. In all the writing process, you have to fight […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 23, 2015
