http://www.remakeremixripoff.comnhttps://www.facebook.com/remakeremixripoffnnTurkey once had one of the most productive film industries in t...
http://www.remakeremixripoff.comnhttps://www.facebook.com/remakeremixripoffnnTurkey once had one of the most productive film industries in the world, with an annual production of 250 to 300 films a year. The popular films made in this ‘Yeşilçam period’ elevated copying and mixing well-known genre conventions almost to an art form. In addition, partly because of the lack of laws on copyright, many remakes of Hollywood classics emerged. From Rocky to The Exorcist and from The Wizard of Oz to Star Wars: all acquired an often bizarre Turkish version that was literally and metaphorically translated to meet local needs.nIn an industry where Turkish actors could easily play in several hundred films, every trick of the trade was fully exploited: genre clichés, borrowed soundtracks, even plagiarism. Messy rush jobs or self-conscious B-movies? Appropriating visual motifs can be either a way of establishing a dialogue with the other or holding up a fairground mirror to them.nIn his documentary essay, Cem Kaya investigates this Turkish copy culture and shows how inventively local studios tackled foreign film material; the minimum of means was used to still the continuous film appetites of Turkish audiences. In addition, he looks at the relationship between this film industry and historic and topical Turkish subjects such as internationalisation, censorship and the advent of television.nn+++nnReviewsnnhttp://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/goteborg-review-uproarious-doc-celebrates-mourns-the-turkish-movie-culture-of-remake-remix-rip-off-20150126nnhttp://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/09/25/fantastic-fest-review-remake-remix-rip-offnnhttp://twitchfilm.com/2015/09/letrange-2015-review-remake-remix-rip-off-is-a-raucuous-joyride.htmlnnhttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/24/the-wild-world-of-turkish-b-moviesnnhttp://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/remake-remix-ripoff-review-fantastic-fest-2015/nnhttp://theknockturnal.com/remake-remix-rip-off-surprisingly-original/nnhttp://cinapse.co/2015/10/02/remix-remake-rip-off-copy-culture-turkish-pop-cinema-fantastic-fest-2015/nn+++nnInterviewsnnhttp://www.bantmag.com/english/issue/post/34/133nhttp://physicalimpossibility.com/2015/08/28/interview-cem-kaya-director-of-remake-remix-rip-off/nhttp://physicalimpossibility.com/2015/08/30/interview-cem-kaya-director-of-remake-remix-rip-off-pt-ii/nn+++nnFestivalsnnLocarno Film FestivalnRotterdam Film FestivalnBerlin Film Festival (Lola Section)nSeminci Cine de Autor, ValladolidnIDFF Yamagata, JapannEBS, South KoreanFantasia, Montréal, CanadanSitges Intl. Film Festival, SpainnFantastic Fest, Austin, USAnEdinburgh IFF, GBnBarcelona Docs, SpainnDoc Aviv, IsraelnDokfest München, GermanynHong Kong Asian Film FestivalnFestival do Rio, BrazilnGöteborg Film Festival, SwedennAdana Golden Boll Film Festival, TurkeynFestival on Wheels, Ankara Turkeyn!f IstanbulnSaarbrücken Max Ophüls Preis, GermanynSilkroad Film Festival, DublinnIstanbul Film Festival (On The Bridge)nIndie Lisboa, PortugalnDocs against Gravity, WarsawnTransilvania IFF, Cluj-NapocanDocumentarist IstanbulnGerman Films MadridnIntl. Film Festival Innsbruck, AustrianSyros Intl. Film Festival, GreecenGuanajuato Film Festival, MexiconDocumentaqro, Queretaro, MexiconDocs DS, Mexico City, MexiconL´Étrange Festival, ParisnFocus on Asia, Fukuoka, JapannCine Migrante, Buenos AiresnSydney Underground Film Festival (Australian Premiere)nMelbourne Underground Film Festival nBUT Festival, Breda, NetherlandsnFestival del Cine Aleman, Buenos AiresnFestival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, KanadanHelsinki IFFnMinneapolis Underground Film FestivalnTürkisches Filmfestival FrankfurtnFilm 4 Fright Fest, LondonnFilms from the South, Oslo (Norway Premiere)nIFF Split, KroatiennExtreme Festival, Cinématheque ToulousenCorne d’Or FF, Montreal, KanadanFilmfest OsnabrücknBoston Turkish Film FestivalnTempofestival, StockholmnColchester Film Festival, GBnRazorreel Film Festival, Brügge, BelgiumnA Vingança Dos Filmes B, Porto Alegre, BrazilnTurkish FF Toronto, CanadanDokfest, Prizren, KosovonEge Belgesel Film Günleri, Izmir, TurkeynIsçi Filmleri Festivali, IstanbulnZinema Zombie Fest, Bogota, ColombianMonsters of Film Festival, Stockholm, SwedennHawaii International Film FestivalnTurkish FF Toronto, KanadanVancouver Golden Horn FF, KanadanIthaca Fantastic Film Festival, USAnCineuropa Santiago de CompostelanSCUM, SingapurnBratislava International Film FestivalnKinofest LünennFilmschau Baden WürttembergnBogaziçi Film Festivali, IstanbulnFestival Cinema Mediterranéen BruxellesnShivers Genre Film Festival, KonstanznTurkish Film Festival New York, USAnInternational Film Festival of UruguaynBelfast Film Festival, Northern IrelandnBialystok Underground Film Festivalnn+++nnAwardsnnDocumentarist Istanbul 2015 / FIPRESCI Award nDoku Fest Prizren 2015 / Audience AwardnShivers Film Festival 2015 / Audience Award Less