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Totally different - Istanbul's strong women

Totally different - Istanbul's strong women, is a 30 minute documentary, which potraits four young women going their own way. A feature by Gunnar Köhne in German language. It aired on WDR (West German Broadcasting) on March 05th 2013. We cannot embed the video to our blog, but the link below will redirect you to WDR's video player.

WDR

Castrol

 

Castrol is a brand of industrial and automotive lubricants that is applied to a large range of oils, greases and similar products for most lubrication applications. The Castrol brand is part of the BP's Group of Companies, but has retained its separate identity.

Last week we recorded the voice over for BP's Castrol 30 and 15 seconds TV commercial.

It is now on air on Turkish television.

BP Castrol

Ala Turka German Christmas Carol

Christmas holidays are near and again we produced a music clip for our customer Manzara Istanbul to be sent as season's greeting to their friends and guests. We hope you enjoy it too. This year Melek (angel) sings the traditional christmas carol "Leise rieselt der Schnee" in an ala turka version at beautiful places in an "snowy Istanbul". Happy holidays!

The House of Hakan Aldogan

Hakan Aldogan is a Turkish architect who recently moved back to Istanbul and showed us his new house in Istanbul's Balat district.

We were helping out Xoom Media with on site sound recording for this little report. It was recently aired on Deutsche Welle Television.

Deutsche Welle

Sabah Yildizi

Sabah Yildizi is a documentary about Sabahattin Ali, who was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet and journalist. He was found killed at the Bulgarian border in April 1948.

It is believed that he was killed by Ali Ertekin, a smuggler with connections to the National Security Service.

Sabah Yildizi is directed by Metin Avdac and was sound edited and mixed at Studio Istanbul. It is currently shown until September 27th at Cinema Majestic. It will also be shown at the 19th International Golden Boll Film Festival in Adana.

Sinemanus

Benim Türkiye

This is the first part of a video documentary of a man who is visiting Turkey for the first time in his life to meet his wife's family and see the village and country she grow up in. It is a combination of still and motion shots. We enjoyed watching it and hope you will enjoy it too.

The writing, voice over, music production and composition were done at MineWurx Studio.

Labirent

Labirent is a dramatic feature with a Turkish and international cast shot on location in Istanbul, Eastern Turkey (also substituting for Pakistan and Northern Iraq) and Germany.

It is a story of intelligence and terrorism told from the unique perspective of a country that is considered a pathway between the East and West.

It will be released in movie theathers on December 23rd.

Turkey's best documentary 2010 - "Kara Altindan Altin Mikrofona - From Black Gold To Golden Microphone"

Metin Avdac's moving documentary about a Turkish Petrol's small orchestra in Batman that won the "Golden Microphone" in the 60s was now chosen as "Turkey's bet professional produced documentary movie 2010" by the turkish state television TRT. We at Studio Istanbul are very proud that we were allowed to contribute to this great movie by doing the final sound editing and mixdown. The movie has also been screen at several film festivals around Europe.

It will also be screened on "TRT Belgesel" on 12th March 2011, 08:05pm turkish local time. If you have a chance to watch it - don't miss it.

"Based down south" - now available on DVD

The documentary movie "Based Down South" is now available on DVD. As we were involved in a small part of this movies production we already featured this movie on this blog for a couple of times. After beeing screened on different film festivals and cinemas around the world, a "Grimme Award" nomination and being brodcasted on ZDF German TV you can now watch this wonderfull movie on DVD. The DVD is also available at the German Amazon store. This version includes english subtitles as well.

Some part's of the movie were filmed by the film's crew at Studio Istanbul, of course the parts showing a music studio. And some parts of the movie's soundtrack were also recorded at our studio by Robert  F. Kellner. Although we personally weren't directly involved in the movie's production process, we still are very proud that our facilities were used.

Kaybedenler Kulübü

The story of the legendary istanbul radio show "The Loser' Club", which was broadcasted in the late 90ies and hosted by Kaan Çaydamlı and Mete Avunduk, is now becoming a movie which will be released on theaters on March 11th, 2010. Nejat İşler, Ahu Türkpençe and Yiğit Özşener are in the leading roles.

Written by the ÖzÖr Duo (Mehmet Ada Öztekin and Tolga Örnek) and directed and produced by Tolga Örnek, this funny, brave and emotional script, is considered as one of the most attractive movies of the new season.

Kaybedenler Kulübü