Cast and Crew

Born on 7 January 1982 in Ankara. On 2005, she graduatet from Bilkent University Graphic Design Department with an MFA degree by her thesis titled “Spectral Images: Dispossesed Family Photographs circulating in Antique Markets in Turkey”. On 2007, she completed her second master’s degree (MA) by her short film project named “Ephemera: A Short Film Project about Dying Photographs”. Forget Me Not / Unutma, that is started as a thesis project, is her first film which is realized with a professional crew. Since 2004, she works with the European Film Festival Team. Pelin, who has several writings and essays on visual culture and film theory, is now both an teaching assistant and a Phd student at Bilkent University. She continues her interest on critical literature on photography by making researches on “post-mortem photographs and death” for her doctoral thesis. Nowadays she is dreaming of writing a story for a new film.

Contact: pelinaytemiz@forgetmenotthemovie.net

mobile
: + 90 532 377 85 61

Charlie is almost 30 years old.
Charlie was born in Germany.
Charlie is half German, half Swedish.
Charlie did a lot of internships in the German film industry (cooking lots of coffee).
Charlie worked in the camera department and the Arri film lab.
Charlie graduated with an MA from London Film School.
Charlie is working on commercials, music videos, documentaries and fiction.
Charlie wants to shoot feature films.

Contact: email@wuppercharlie.com

UK: + 44 79 85 19 12 08

DE: + 49 1 520 520 93 66

http://www.wuppercharlie.com/bio.html

About the main actor: Zafer Diper

Zafer Diper was born in 1946. He started playing in theaters in 1963 at the Youth Branch of People’s Republican Party in Beşiktaş; and he continued acting while he wa in high school, University and Community Center. Some of the plays he directed – played in during this time are Cohoir of the City [Şehrin Korosu], that he wrote, Gitgel Wardrope [Gitgel Dolap], While the Moon is Rising [Ay Doğarken], Zoo [Hayvanat Bahçesi], Sand Chest [Kum Sandığı], Man with a Flower in his Mouth [Ağzı Çiçekli Adam], Outside the Doors [Kapıların Dışında], Woyzeck. For some time, he focused on short films, scenario and story writing motivated by desire in film making, which developed by Sinematek. Later on, he took a role in the Compradore Play at the Public Theatre. He was one of the founding members of the Ortaoyuncular [players of a theatrical genre once popular in Turkey] in 1978 and played the role of Shah thre hundred and seventy five time in the play called They Shoot the Shahs, too [Şahları da Vururlar]. In November 1981, he founded the Our Theatre [Bizim Tiyatro] with a perception and approach that can be summarized by the content of “being able to produce artistic activities with a social-dialectic approach” within Üsküdar Sunar Theatre. Plays, Children’s Play, Cultural – Artistic Activities were dealt with within above mentioned framework. After he had to leave the Sunar Theatre at which he continued his activities for six years, his life turned into a wanderer’s life and he spent his time in such places: AST, Cultural and Art Center in Kadıköy, Baro Han (Tünel), Istanbul Technical University Mining Engineering (G. Lecture Theatre), Küçük Sahne [Little Stage], Capitol Hall, Aksanat, Muammer Karaca Theatre (Beyoğlu) and Barış Manço Culture Center in Kadıköy. Some of the TV serials and films in which Zafer Diper played in addition to theatres: Sizin Dersane [Your Classroom] (1979 yılı), Songül, Töre [Customs], Gülpare [Rose Piece], Paramparça Aşklar [Shattered Loves], Polis [Police], Bir Göçmen Kuştu O [He was a Migratory Bird]…

About the composer: Onur Yüce

Born on 29 December 1982 in Ankara. Started playing saxophone in 1998. Graduted from Berklee College of Music. Worked in Boston, Los Angeles, New York. Lives in Barcelona, Spain and İstanbul.

Contact: seahorsestories@gmail.com

About the composer: Gisela Garcia Brugada

Born on 13 February 1973 in Barcelona. On 1994 and 2000 she graduated in Music Education and in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. After working as a music teacher for many years, she decided to pursue her music studies and moved to the United States to study at Berklee College of Music.

She obtained her degree in Film Scoring in December 2005. She lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked as a composer and studio assistant. In September 2007 she moved back to Barcelona where she continues her film scoring and music career.

Forget Me Not is her second project with Onur Yuce and her first work in Turkey.

giselabrugada@yahoo.com

About the cast: Begüm Güroğlu

Hi Everyone,
I am Begum Guroglu, you may know me as “Leyla”… I was born on the 8th of June in 1985 in Ankara, Turkey. I finished primary, secondary and high school in TED Ankara College. I studied Communication and Design in Bilkent University between the years 2002 and 2006. After University, I worked f or MAG Magazine as a customer representative for four months. I had always been dreaming of a post-graduate education in London, therefore in 2007 I came to London for masters degree on Marketing in Brunel University. I handed in my dissertation and put an end to my student life in November 2008, and am still living and working in London.

Mobile: 07513051484

E-mail: begumguroglu@gmail.com