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Serra Ciliv

Serra Ciliv’s studies and work experience in psychotherapy, politics, arts & culture, and history have focused on forms of belonging and opposition; individual, intergenerational and collective trauma; feminism and ecology; experiences of displacement, and forms of care, solidarity and resilience. Her work as a therapist and facilitator aims to help foster awareness and courageous communication in our very own personal ecosystems, teams, and industries.

In her former life in Istanbul, Serra co-founded and acted for 18 years as director of !f Istanbul Film Festival, an interdisciplinary arts event, a community of support for alternative filmmakers, and a platform for free expression and diversity in Turkey. Serra is also a co-founder of Turkey’s first independent film fund for documentaries, the New Film Fund.

Alongside her private practice, since 2023, she is delighted to have joined forces with Film in Mind, a collective of therapeutic practitioners who provide consultation and therapy for the documentary filmmaking community.

Film in Mind website: www.filminmind.co.uk

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ZDOK.25 contribution:
> Processing together: A collective glimpse at the documentary ecosystem

Building Collaborative Relationships and Participatory Re/enactments

by Rand Beiruty

In this talk, I reflect on the participatory methods that shaped Tell Them About Us and how they intersect with the ethical and social responsibilities of documentary filmmaking. Through my lens as both a filmmaker and researcher, I explore questions driving my practice: Who has the right to tell certain stories, and how does a filmmaker’s positionality and ethical responsibility influence their relationship with participants and the choice of film form? By acknowledging my positionality and fostering collaborative relationships with participants, I strive to create narratives that challenge dominant representations and amplify marginalized voices. I argue that participatory filmmaking, when approached with transparency and reflexivity, allows for more nuanced and equitable forms of storytelling, positioning participants not only as subjects but as partners in telling the story.

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Filme:
> TELL THEM ABOUT US (2024)
> SHADOWS (2024)
CV:
> Rand Beiruty

TELL THEM ABOUT US

Ein Film von Rand Beiruty

TELL THEM ABOUT US begleitet das Leben von sieben Teenagerinnen auf ihrem Weg zum Erwachsenwerden, in Eberswalde, einer ostdeutschen Provinzstadt, 55 km von Berlin entfernt. Als Neuankömmlinge in der Stadt müssen die Mädchen nicht nur die typischen Herausforderungen des Teenagerlebens meistern wie Freundschaften, Schule und Selbstfindung, sondern sich auch an eine neue Kultur und Umgebung gewöhnen und sich mit den Nuancen ihrer Identität als Einwanderer und Flüchtlinge auseinandersetzen. Ihre Erfahrungen mit Vertreibung, der kulturellen Anpassung und dem Assimilationsdruck machen ihre Erzählungen vielschichtiger. Parallel zu ihrem Alltag leitet die Regisseurin Workshops, in denen die Mädchen ihre Hoffnungen, Träume und Ängste durch Schreiben, Musik und Schauspiel erforschen und anschließend Szenen schreiben, die sie vor der Kamera darstellen. Diese Szenen werden in Traumsequenzen umgewandelt, in denen sich die Mädchen die Zukunft vorstellen, um ihre schmerzhaften Erfahrungen zu verarbeiten und sie spielerisch in Zukunftsperspektiven umzuwandeln.

> Trailer
> Webseite

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> ZDOK.25-Beitrag: Building Collaborative Relationships and Participatory Re/enactments
> Rand Beiruty

Rand Beiruty

Rand Beiruty is a writer, director and co-founder of Shaghab Films, a production company based in Amman, Jordan. She holds a practice-based Ph.D. revolving around questions of representation and participatory filmmaking from Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Beiruty has pitched her projects on international platforms and received awards from Tribeca Film Institute, Mifa Animation du Monde, Arab Cinema Center and European Network of Young Cinema among others.

Her debut feature documentary TELL THEM ABOUT US was awarded best pitch at the Reception of German Film Schools and Haus Am See scholarship. The film celebrated its world premiere at CPH:DOX 2024 and received the ECFA Award for Best European Feature Documentary for Young Audience at the 64th Zlín International Film Festival. Her short animated documentary SHADOWS celebrated its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival and won the World Animation Award at the Leeds International Film Festival.

Filmography (selection):
2024 SHADOWS – Animated documentary | 12’
2024 TELL THEM ABOUT US – Feature documentary
2018 NUDAR – Short documentary | 20’ | DE
2017 HALFWAY – Short animated documentary | 4’ | DE

Publications:
– Contribution to “Positions and Perspectives on Artistic Research in Film”,
….IJFMA No.1 GEECT – Transversal Entanglement, P118. (2022)
– Towards a Participatory Approach: Reversing the Gaze when (re)presenting Refugees
….in nonfiction film, International Journal of Film and Media Arts (2020)

Webseite: https://randbeiruty.com/

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ZDOK.25 contribution:
> Building Collaborative Relationships and Participatory Re/enactments
Film:
> TELL THEM ABOUT US

The work of documentary relationships

by Emily Coleman

Documentary-makers often say that building relationships with their contributors is the most important skill of their job – yet it takes place around the margins of the more tangible tasks of filming and editing, often without pay or acknowledgment from the media industries. This paper explores documentary relationships as a form of work, examining what it means when a job entails the production of intimate connections, which are also subject to commercial pressures and imperatives. By analysing how these relationships function on three different levels – interpersonally, procedurally and organisationally – I will consider the implications for cultural policy, regulation and duty of care.

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CV:
> Emily Coleman