21 Nis KUNDURA CINEMA AND ALTYAZI CINEMA MAGAZINE TALKS – ON ‘WOMEN MAKE FILM’ WITH THE DIRECTOR MARK COUSINS
Kundura Cinema’s online screening platform Kundurama published the 14-hour documentary “Women Make Movies: New Road Movie Through Cinema” and in petto to the film’s meeting with the Turkish audience, Kundura Blog brings you the striking talk with the acknowledged director Mark Cousins!
The director and film critic Mark Cousins, whom the cinephiles are familiar with his previous documentary “The Story of Film Odyssey / Cinema Story” gave this talk specific to film’s screening in Turkey by answering Altyazi Cinema Magazine’s editor Aslı Ildır. Cousins tells the story of this crazy project, in which he brought together pieces from the films of nearly 200 female directors by watching thousands of movies, expressing that he prefers to represent women filmmakers with their creativity and imagination, not as victims of the film industry.
“Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema”, winner of the Award of Innovative Storytelling at the 2020 European Film Awards, brings us to an exquisite journey along with the narrations by Tilda Swinton who is also co-producing the film, as well as by Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton and Debra Winger; and lists the 40 golden rules of making a “good movie” based on films by selected female directors from around the world.