Saturday, April 22, 2006

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.