Cagatay Ulusoy
2021 Birthday Fundraiser
Participation is easy! Step 1: Select a Childhood Cancer organization in your region Step 2: Make a donation Step 3: Send a copy of the receipt to cu.northamerica@gmail.com by September 20, 2021 We will collate all the donations and create a final birthday message for Cagatay, to be shared with his team. If you wish to include a message, please …
Yesilcam: Episode 7 Review #CiceklerVeAyrikOtlari
The moving pieces of Yesilcam collides in dreams that are made, pursued, broken and risen from the ashes. The sheen of the film world hides a desperation to be relevant, to remain important, to maintain one’s prestige, especially when threatened with social movements designed to change the face of the status quo. We see people who have clawed their way …
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Yesilcam: Episode 9 Review #SeyliFilm
In the review for Episode 8, we referred to an article that talks about the breadth of erotic films made in Yesilcam, a practice that grew in the late 1970s for cash strapped filmmakers after the launch of the public television network TRT changed the consumer’s movie going behavior. Eda Savaseri also mentions in her article on Yesilcam that between …
Yesilcam: Episode 8 Review #Kafes
When I read the first summary of the Yesilcam series and how it portrays the journey of a young producer who rises after losing everything, I had assumed we started the series with Semih at his lowest. He was having to restart everything with the Great Ates Film company, and I thought we would witness his cleverness as he navigates …
Cagatay Ulusoy’s Birdie To Play At Palm Springs International ShortFest 2021
In very exciting news, we have come to learn that “Birdie” the short film written, directed and produced by Cagatay Ulusoy has been selected at the 27th Palm Springs Shortfest 2021 which will be California’s first in-theater film festival since the start of the COVID pandemic. A prestigious and well known event, it is designated as an awards qualifying event …
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Yesilcam: Director Cagan Irmak’s Chat with Episode Yerli And Then Some
Cagan Irmak is a highly regarded Turkish director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema from Ege University, Irmak has been hugely successful with his films, series and short films. His best known project is the series “Çemberimde Gül Oya“, which narrates the complex, tense and political situation of the 1980s and …
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Yesilcam: Episode 6 Review #KucukBuyukYaralar
This episode, with the title meaning Small, Big Wounds, is an expose of the fractures in our relationships, whether we are aware of them or not. Yesilcam invites the creation of fake relationships, whether it is for survival or for the socially upwardly mobile, and lays bare the ways bonds of the heart get tested. We get more insight into …
Yesilcam: Episode 5 Review #AskNerdeCesetNerde
Where is Love, Where is Body In this episode we get a full frontal introduction into why Semih Ates claims himself to be a “Cinema Hayvani” or a Cinema Animal, which relates to the full title of the series, Yesilcam: A Cinema Animal. As Mr. Cantek tells us in our interview with him last week, he was interested in creating …