now on an arts twenty one special. an associate is an american with mexican roots she brings stories of immigrants to the screen. but i really strongly believe that that. once someone opens up and tells her story something changes and the. muslim who suffer is one of the very few movie directors from the softness of a man expression in the was the always have an idea that women in my country pressed me i don't feel it's true. that it is xan is an actor from turkey who's had enough of plain cliche roles. mostly their life stereotypical roles for me among. a lot of fun to finkel of belgium tackle some tough subjects through animation. the problem is puppets are very fragile so if you have moved them ten times you have to fix them right. kate on mayberg of the united states produces films that make no compromises if i have an opportunity to hire women i well because i believe in advancing our careers and sort of point people up. but also because i just like what was done such. how do all these women survive and get ahead in an industry where men separate. we talk with them at the twenty eight hundred but in our talents the band and film festivals platform for young filmmakers from around the world. really are so so i was born in the united states the daughter of mexican immigrants . my mom started cleaning houses she was a maid you know so like they've sacrificed so much. for my sister and i to have a better life so for me i don't take it lightly to be a filmmaker. any of us films portray people at the edges of american society immigrants without legal documents and without hope. our story in but i said that they make work through the whole. system was fairly to me it is learning you better are racists day to day still where poorer than to scam you scare me though and it basically up very. early. in the windows. stay in it been. supported in. the filmmaker chronicled the pregnancies of two women one living in the united states illegally the other with an undocumented mexican husband it was the period just after donald trump's electoral college victory. after the election high. draft that there were vigil anti crips car and door to door in our neighborhood and my son was born and i was holding him in my arms and i lose her hiding my husband and the floorboards. the political tension right now in the us is really heavy and it's affecting people in very traumatic ways so. making a documentary about these kinds of issues is a way to allow the. these communities to express themselves and to have that platform. ileana is well acquainted with such stories she also has undocumented friends and relatives all possible texas where she grew up is right on the mexican border. growing up on the border for me is a constant inspiration and that landscape of the desert of the stillness of that is very much present in my work. in the us first feature child of the desert tells a story of personal loss the mother of a fallen american soldier encounters a young mexican man who has no papers. they are two of the many dispossessed and they help one another. good at the precinct i want to nominate. one of the. after traumas victory mexican immigrants came under pressure racism started coming out in the open and indiana began making documentaries. directing is really a privilege so for me crossing over to documentary is political because you're able to. give a platform for stories that people don't normally see. all over the in this. study ok. to see it out. and look out of them then on the get out both the source program must carry his thumb was me and. that. must i. cannot get out hank get along. with the n.s.a. . can i be at my doors any having. the reality is that it's difficult for a woman of color to make films it's still a very sexist and racist industry so. i think it's more difficult because sometimes you're not taken seriously trusting your gut knowing that you do have something to say i think that's that's the secret. of suffolk one of our moms very few women directors lives and works by the principle never stop believing in the power of your own cinematic vision. when i was a kid i always thought being a boy is very but then i changed the say. it's not necessarily to be among two. to be strong. like especially in the west they always have an idea that women in my country are pressed. i don't feel it's true because i grew up. in a house where my mom was stronger than my dad sometimes and my grandmother. for her final university project must not help with female gender roles what is a woman in the eyes of society. i am somebody. for. when they see me. only could read on my forehead. that time either of. chris thomas. or simply a ghost. in a club is a story of a woman with a vain where in a vain. thinkin or question herself before going to a scot a man's prosperous capital the other an impoverished zanzibar. the two brothers and two countries are connected by family and history. as a filmmaker must now strive to reflect a country's cultural diversity devoid of cliches. if you'll use. it towards my country towards the region where i come from. but how to support filmmaking and finance productions that don't fit existing definitions. for that it takes courageous producers like a can make back. the director has given birth to next performers now that tally. makes a statement and everybody you know and provocative sports documentaries not giving you anything right. now before it was charged with robbery possession and history go want to be like everybody knows make and won an emmy for this documentary about america's social realities. i've got the tattoo for every feature i've done and i like the idea that they've changed me and so i want to mark each one with a physical change it's about a football team and so i got their team cheer tattooed on my ankle and a crown because that came. whenever she can get in makes it a point to hire women for her film projects. it's about she knows from experience what it means to try to make it in a male to male. i think one of the secrets to being successful as a female producer is to be constantly working to eliminate female from that description i'm really excited about the idea that in the future i won't have to be actively hiring women in order to advance their careers because it will just be taken for granted that everyone is being judged on their merit. we also need cuts and patience especially now in the u.s. . inconvenient political topics as an adversary you know what the next and see all we are. it's a no holds barred documentary about a republican and trump supporter. it's fast and loose with the prices statements. those things that he said in our voice call him for the death of our president phone mag cow disease said that his wife i will post lady michelle looks like a man and she should go back to africa and play with it a role in the case for him to say something like that so freely. it caused me to become an angry black man. i tolerated a lot of things over the years but what i would never tolerate such bo-bo conscious disrespected hatefulness towards another human being simply because of the color of this pin. as a producer working in the time of trumpets just it's a little anxiety inducing because i'm worried about we're watching the rights being taken away from group after group and i'm sort of wondering when it's coming for us . to finance such films and also produces light entertainment shows for t.v. that's the reality of independent film very few can make a living from it. how many compromises do women have to make. twenty four year old at it is john is a turkish actor. she's had roles on award winning feature films but her bread and butter has long been shallow daytime serials. most of his stories are being told by male perspective. the ailing with. people older than forty fifty years old so they can be there i feel like i'm being devalued by them sometimes i feel like. they don't really care about what i'm thinking what i'm saying. is given more acting freedom the characters she creates can be highly complex personalities non-conformist and vulnerable. my only sunshine was a. growing up solely of a young man. who lives in the lawless and why i meant and her rebellion against is bad for her. she's being hurt by her in my arm and by the people around her and she. she doesn't experience love . i don't see. i told him some. thank you it's one shelter. but. you cannot. get us. nobody. she tries to. run away from the world and like to go for her i feel like my political opinion might be more important and my skills. i am political person but in nowadays i have i don't feel myself there comfortable about. telling my political opinion in and publicly. at these i had the privilege i'm like i'm feeling myself being like you and proud that i could take part of these projects that also shows where i'm standing what i'm standing for. as she did and must time the story of five sisters who were too rebellious for rural turkey. and innocent game with some boys takes a disastrous turn. the understanding is that. our goals i looked up abused and forced into marriages. but they don't give up. it's none frenching examination of tucker society which under president at iran is drifting towards extremes masculine muslim i'm assortments. this turkish french co-production was a change in many countries but in turkey it was of course highly controversial. and. i was feeling very powerful while we were shooting it like. as if we could. i think the control of the world you know. we could like bird then how. could. she. know. we can do more films and that's doesn't object why women pick them as subjects don't show them as victims but like as figures that they can speak up for themselves. for a long time that has not been the case. and an amazing lot of on the video takes things to extremes until they reach critical mass. yet. hear a woman is formed from modeling clay god makes her according to his own absurd ideas and. moving stories that raise disturbing questions not a has a own way of presenting them but the film questions of violence against women. and then there had happened a rape case in. which which had. disturbed me a lot so i wanted to make something about that. i was interested by the by standers effect which means that the more people are present in the situation of violence the less big the chance that someone will intervene. ignorance apathy and the fine cracks and how well oiled affluent society. laura expresses themes like these in a seemingly naive cinematic language which only makes the stories disturbing. in paradise refugees try to cross the mediterranean while overworked europeans travel to those very countries for a couple of weeks vacation. our paradise their how. can. you imagine the situation in which your puppets are in so for example a voice animating the moments of the puppets in the boats the refugee folks. you kind of imagine yourself in in this boat as well in these situations so i was thinking if i was in this boat together with these other people what would i do. but empathy carries a certain risk simple truths implied simple answers. there's something tricky about these. because you you there's the danger of becoming moralistic or cynical and that's a trap i want to avoid. they make uncomfortable films determined to go their own way but these women are still alone way from their destination. the weinstein scandal in the me too movement have set wheels in motion and these women filmmakers are helping to move. on his next film is a very personal one the story of a grandfather that will follow his footsteps from mexico to the united states financing projects like this is never easy but she's optimistic. this year is actually really promising to see for example the first female cinematography sume the first female cinematographer to be nominee for an oscar i mean it's amazing right but it's twenty eight teams. take wow big you know that should have happened years ago. but uses every opportunity to find an audience for have films festivals theaters and online but she'd like much more. my i mean lives in my mom's house and she keeps asking for every to get a boyfriend so it would be really nice if his name could be oscar. caliber continues to pursue unconventional roles the next project is a vampire series set in istanbul produced exclusively for online viewing. government has less control in these platforms it's more free. and one x. film must know when they can be looking at amman's history this time focusing on the culture of the nomads. we have the right timing to create. were considering it's it's right time. lara's proper some venturing into real life and interacting with our world. is sometimes i want to change the world burqa melts so . i'm aware of the slow. moving which i'm doing but i think it's very good to to try model. subscribes to the band's know how to bring the a 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