The Week Before Istanbul

Well, folks, yes, my documentary Bloodletting is again taking me somewhere out of the United States. This time the point of destination is Istanbul, Turkey!!! I have been invisted to screen in the Istanbul Labor Film Festival on May Day 2006. The coordinators have been so gracious as to provide me with a ticket, and so I am taking their offer and going. Luckily and last minute Nicole is also trekking with me for a few days. We leave LAX onf Friday April 28th. The journey will take 17 hours. We go to Munich, Germany to connect with a connecting flight, and eventually get to Turkey. I will be there for a few weeks, participating in the festival, but also tracking down the Turkish hip hop scene while directing a narrative short about African immigrants living in Istanbul. As usual, I'm certain I will encounter things I never imagined, so please keep in touch as I trek to Istanbul. For information on the festival here is the address: www.sendika.org/laborfest.

Ciao.