Timeline
2017
starting
# Spring 2017: First meetings
# 5 May 2017: Instant messaging group
# August 2017: Determining possible interview questions, collecting information about Engürü
# Winter 2017: Creating list of interviewees
2018
trials, shootings
# May 2018: Social memory, city, urban memory, oral history readings. Watching sample documentaries
# July 2018: Clarification of the questions to be asked, preparation of interview permission document and shooting checklist, collection of documents such as Engürü photo album, magazines, books, newspapers to be placed on the table during the interview
# 2 August 2018: First test shoot
# 4 August 2018: Hezarfen Cafe test shoots with Sibel Durak
# 12 September 2018: First interview shoot with Sulhiye Gültekingil and Murat Gültekingil
# October-November 2018: Test shoots with Sibel Durak and Zeynep Alica; microphone and equipment tests; completion of equipment deficiencies such as microphone, tripod, harddisk
# 10 October 2018: First application to the Support Fund and rejection
# October 2018: First batch of photographs from the archives of Yunus Özkazanç and Candan Murat Özcan, scanning and digitising the negatives
# 27 October 2018: Kemal Can – Coffeehouses of the Capital, organised by Salt Ankara
# 25 November 2018: Interview shoot with Candan Murat Özcan and Genco Dönmez; after each shoot, the routine of editing the interview, watching the interview, noting and correcting mistakes and revisions
# December 2018: Interview with Alper Fidaner, İlker Berke, Hakan Kaynar, Şengün Kılıç; automatic deciphering programme researches
2019
shooting continues
# January 2019: Interviews with Bülent Güler, Ayşin Zoe Güneş, Mine Kasap, Mehmet Öz, M. Bülent Kılıç, Eren Aysan
# February 2019: Interviews with Yücel Çelikler, Nedret Miser, Hacer Taşçene, Süreyya Murat, Mehmet Özer
# 5-16 February 2019: Second batch of photographs from Candan Murat Özcan’s archive
# 19 February 2019: Hyperlapse shooting on Konur Street
# March 2019: Interviews with Süleyman Kaya, Adnan Akçay, Cahit Çiltaş, İhsan Özbek, Hatice Ayrancı, Tevfik Doğan Toker, Özgün Dinçer, Şencan Kalkancı, Renk Mıdıkhan
# April 2019: Interviews with Asuman Topaloğlu, Ahmet Yıldız, Ersan Ocak, Metin Solmaz, Yasemin Öz
# May 2019: Interviews with Menekşe Toprak, Kerim Hammami, Reyhan Atasü, Gökçe Bayrakçeken Tüzel, Yusuf Al
# May 2019: Off the record meeting with Nihat Genç
# June 2019: Interviews with İlknur Yüksel, Hasan Mehmet Mürşil, Murat Meriç, Özcan Çiçek
# 13-14-15 July 2019: Istanbul interviews with 15 people. Thanks to İlker Berke. Emrah Dönmez, Nebil Sayın, Eyüphan Erkul, Hasan Nami Güner, Arzu Suriçi Kireççi, F. Cengiz Erdinç, Nesrin Karadağ, Gül Abus Semerci, Harun Abuşoğlu, İlker Barış, Ümit Kireççi, Önder İskender Özturanlı, Mete Aygün, Gamze Aras, Çerkes Karadağ
# 26 August 2019: The marriage of Ayşe and Tanju
# September 2019: Continuing interviews in Ankara, Ebru Ceylan, Ahmet Telli, Uğur Tunçay
# October 2019: Interviews with Murat Kalaycıoğlu, Ahmet Bülent Erişti, Ali Balkız, Umut Kara, Hale Güçsavaş, Tarhan Gürhan
# November 2019: Interviews with Orhan Tekinsoy, Süleyman Kaman, Enver Kaman, Tamer İncesu, Neşet Kocabıyıkoğlu
# December 2019: Interviews with Duygu Cihanger, Muzaffer Kesgin, Erdoğan Bekkaya, Eşref Kaçmaz, Emre Karayel, Rıfat Başaran, Önder San
# 6 December 2019: Yunus Özkazanç’s behind the scenes shot with drone in STB office
2020
the pandemic
# January 2020: Interview with Tanıl Bora
# 18 January 2020: Last face-to-face interview with Rıza Güzelgün
# March 2020: Beginning of the pandemic, even the project team cannot see each other
# Spring 2020: Özlem and Can started to watch all the interviews and take summary notes
# July 2020: Tests with Skype and Zoom
# 17 July 2020: First Zoom interview “Necmi” Mehmet Turgut Bayram (Bodrum)
# July 2020: Zoom interviews with Soner Sevgili (Adana), Kemal Can (Akçakoca), Ahmet Orhan (London), Metin Yücel (Thailand), Ege Berensel (Ankara), Mehmet Demir (İzmit), Mehmet Gökağaç (Ankara), İnanç Uysal (Antalya)
# August 2020: Interviews with Mert Burat (Ankara), Ümit Uzmay (Ankara), Erdal Akalın (Ankara) via Zoom and WhatsApp
# 30 August 2020: Last interview, Ece Temelkuran via Zoom (Zagreb)
# Autumn 2020: Summarising approximately 3000 lines from 92 interviews, identifying keywords
# December 2020: Application for the Ministry of Culture documentary fund
2021
sorting material
# January-February 2021: Digitising and watching all of Rıza Güzelgün’s video tapes
# Spring 2021: Özlem starts reading all interview summaries, editing and revising keywords
# 25 June 2021: Ministry of Culture fund rejection
# Summer and Autumn 2021: Creating narratives on paper about 75 keywords
# 14 July 2021: Completing the first keyword editing, 1980 Coup d’état, and continuing with other keywords
# 27 December 2021: Final completion of narratives on 75 keywords
2022
script and editing
# 14 January 2022: Özlem starts working on the script
# 18 April 2022: Completion of the 6-page summary script
# April 2022: Death of “Necmi” Mehmet Turgut Bayram
# May 2022: Özlem and Can start editing
# 3 June 2022: Watching the first one hour of editing as project team, starting the search for support and funding again
# 14 June 2022: Making the necessary revisions to the script after the first hour of editing
# July 2022: Continue editing
# 25 August 2022: Özlem’s finalisation of the script, 5-hour assembly based on this script
# November 2022: Death of Ümit Uzmay
# 24 November 2022: Second application to Support Fund
# 28 November 2022: Return to assembly after a three-month break, with the goal of reducing 5 hours 13 minutes to 3 hours
2023
finishing
# January-February 2023: Can’s solo exhibition “Retrospective Inventory of My-Self” gains momentum and the documentary takes a break
# February 2023: Death of Süreyya Murat
# March 2023: Approval of Support Fund
# March 2023: Death of Mert Burat
# May 2023: Returning to editing after the break for the exhibition and reducing the 5-hour assembly to 2 hours 50 minutes
# 18 May 2023: Watching the 2 hour and 50 minute assembly with Ayşe and Tanju
# June 2023: Reduction of 2 hours 50 minutes assembly to 2 hours 35 minutes
# 30 June 2023: Adding archive photographs and videos to the film. Overhauling the Mengilibörü archive, scanning and digitising newspapers, magazines and photographs from the period
# July 2023: Death of Rıza Güzelgün
# 15 July 2023: Re-working and revising some parts of the film, adding closing credits
# July-August 2023: Arrival of second and third party photographs from Yunus Özkazanç’s archive
# August 2023: Can prepeares subtitles of the film
# 31 August 2023: Completion of the film, 1 hour 52 minutes, 199th version. Now it’s time for post-production, colour and sound correction, subtitle translation, etc.
# 12 September 2023: Ayşe obtains permission from the copyright holders for the use of the song Uyanıyor Ankara
# 17 September 2023: Titling of the documentary: between you and me Engürü Kahve. Preparation of the first trailer, poster designs
# 19 September 2023: Application for Ankara Film Festival and Vekam Special Award
# 19 September 2023: Acquisition of lafaramizda.com and construction of the website
# 22 September 2023: Sending the film to Volkan Yırtıcı for sound editing, mix and mastering. Tanju is following-up of Support Fund contracts
# 24 September 2023: Death of İlker Berke
# 27 September 2023: Editing the Turkish subtitles for translation and sending them to the translation office
# 24 October 2023: The Ankara Film Festival program was announced, we learned from the program that we were included in the Ankara Films Selection
# 6 November 2023: The first screening of the documentary took place within the scope of the 34th Ankara Film Festival Ankara Films Selection. An interview was held after the screening.
# 10 November 2023: Documentary won the 34th Ankara Film Festival VEKAM Special Award
# 1 December 2023: The documentary was shown at the “Cult Kavaklıdere” cinema. An interview was held after the screening
2024
screenings, festivals
# 19 January 2024: Post-screening interview at TMMOB Chamber of Architects Conference Hall
# 10 Februrary 2024: Between You and Me – Engürü Kahve was selected as a finalist in the Camera Eye National Documentary category at the 7th International Women Filmmakers Festival.
# 29 Februrary 2024: Screening and interview at the 7th Women Directors Festival
# 28 August 2024: Between You and Me – Engürü Kahve was accepted to the Competition Selection of the 31st International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival
# 24 September 2024: Screening and interview at the 31st International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival
# 30 September 2024: Between You and Me – Engürü Kahve was selected for the 12th Antakya International Film Festival Documentary Film Competition
# 22 October 2024: Screened at the 12th Antakya International Film Festival