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Nick Read & Ayse Toprak
UK TR 2022 55' 82'
⚬ Arts & Culture ⚬ Human Interest ⚬ Human Rights
Aspiring popstar Mutlu Kaya (Mutlu means ‘happy’ in Turkish) narrowly escapes an attempted femicide with her life. Despite life changing injuries, Mutlu goes in search of justice and to reclaim her voice as a singer.
“Multu hasn’t only rediscovered her voice, but is using it as a powerful, defiant instrument of protest” - Screen Daily
"an urgent film, raising a voice which needs to be heard" - Eye For Film
"inspirational" - The Guardian
Directors | Nick Read & Ayse Toprak |
Producer | Nick Read |
Co-Producer | Mahmut Kaya |
Executive Producers | Monica Garnsey, Adam Bullmore, Nevine Mabro, Siobhan Sinnerton |
Production Companies | October Films, Red Zed Films |
Co-Production Company | Horovel Films |
Cinematography | Meryem Yavuz |
Editor | Anna Price |
Music | Smith & Elms |
Sound | Oğuzhan Akalın |
Human Rights Human Wrongs Award | HUMAN IDFF 2023 |
Golden Horn Best Film Award | Krakow FF 2023 |
Special Mention Human Rights Dox Competition | DokuFest 2023 |
Programme Award | AJB DOC 2023 |
Special Mention | Human Rights FF Berlin 2023 |
Best Single Documentary - International | Grierson British Documentary Awards 2024 |
IDFA 2022 |
Santa Barbara IFF 2023 |
FIFDH 2023 |
HUMAN IDFF 2023 |
Krakow Film Festival 2023 |
| Runtime | 55' 82' |
| Production Countries | UK, Turkey |
Nick Read is an EMMY & BAFTA nominated filmmaker known for making acclaimed observational documentaries. He has shot & directed over 50 films, many of them in remote or high-risk locations (INSIDE ISRAEL'S JAILS; SLUMDOG CHILDREN OF MUMBAI; THE CONDEMNED etc). His work has won 2 Foreign Press Association awards, the Rory Peck Impact Award and the Creative Diversity Award for best documentary. His most recent feature documentary, BOLSHOI BABYLON, produced by Simon Chinn, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, opened in 100 UK cinemas and was long listed for BAFTA & Academy awards.
Ayse Toprak recently relocated from Istanbul to London. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she has an MA in Media Studies at the New School. From 2011, she worked extensively for Al Jazeera in Turkey, London and Doha, producing social and political documentaries in the Middle East. In 2016 Ayse began work on her first feature documentary, MR GAY SYRIA. To date the film has screened at over 70 international festivals including IDFA, Sheffield DocFest, MOMA fortnight, Chicago Film Festival etc. The film won 14 awards, most of which were granted for enlightening human rights.
