The “Million Dollar Poster” documentary meets the audience free of charge on the Retroville Youtube channel.
Described as the most comprehensive study on movie poster culture in Turkey, the documentary “Million Dollar Poster” meets with the audience after a one-year festival marathon.
The Million Dollar Poster, the product of a detailed study spanning two and a half years in total, is the most comprehensive feature-length documentary on poster culture in Turkey so far. This journey, which director Fatih Yurir and Producer Hakan Tunga Kalkan embarked on after the documentary “The Man with the Golden Brush”, in which they tell the life of legendary illustrator Aslan Şükür, was initially conceived as a short-length work. With the increase in the number of valuable names joining the team over time, a full documentary work over two hours has emerged.
“Which is the most expensive movie poster ever sold in Turkey?” With each new step they take, the team gains invaluable information about the poster culture that has been shaped in Turkey. Over time, both the staff and the route of the journey change and from Istanbul to Fethiye; An extremely comprehensive journey from Kaş to Van emerges!
DREAM TEAM FULL OF LIVING LEGENDS TOGETHER!
The documentary features a real all-star team that has both worked for Yeşilçam for years and preserved many valuable posters from dark cellars. İbrahim Enez, who is one of the leading artists who built the memory showcase of our cinema with the hundreds of posters he created especially for Yeşilçam, Şahin Karakoç and Ömer Muz, who signed a significant part of the Turkish posters of the biggest hit movies of the popular cinema arena, are the most important formations that come to mind when it comes to poster printing in Yeşilçam. Erol Ağakay, the admiral of Mimeray, and Mehmet Soyarslan, the leader of Özel Film, who built our popular cinema memory by bringing us together with many blockbusters in the 80s and 90s, is one of the living memories of Yeşilçam, one of the most valuable filmmakers of the country in every sense. There are extremely important names such as Necip Sarıcı.
The documentary has a large cast, which includes both cinema workers, poster collectors, and collectors who have taken it upon themselves to carry the cultural heritage to the future with the niche pieces they collect from these posters. Ali Atakul, Vadullah Taş, Celal Kalaycı and Mustafa Mumcu, together with the invaluable cinema workers who brought the posters together with the collectors; Ömer Atakan, one of the world’s most notable James Bond collectors, supports the documentary with important pieces in his archive, Süleyman Sipahi, who supports the documentary with his precious posters from World Cinema, and Seçkin Çekirdekçi, who can be set as an example for the collecting arena in Turkey, undertake the memory guard of the documentary.
Of course, in the documentary, there are many important names who have made unique works on the poster and contributed to the development of this culture. Nazlı Eda Noyan and Ömer Durmaz, who have done outstanding work on behalf of poster culture in Turkey, esteemed film critic Kaya Özkaracalar, our internet crews chief, journalist and writer Serdar Kuzuloğlu, radio broadcaster, presenter, collector and editor Güven Erkin Erkal, director Kudret Sabancı , the other Yeşilçam’s wicked talent, the late Kunt Tulgar, radio broadcaster and broadcaster Utku Uluer and cinema researcher Ümit Kayaçelebi, collector İlker Sağlam and Pera Mezat founder Mehmet Gacıroğlu, Comic Book Readers Association president Önder Çakı, the Betamax Video he created in Leman Important names such as Turgut Özalp, who introduced him to cult films, writer Yigilante Kocagöz and cartoonist Deniz Ozan Coşkun, creators of the cartoon collection named Karadut Express, are also important names that give strength to the documentary.
The narrator of the documentary is Osmantan Erkır, who also has extremely rare pieces in his collection.
The documentary “Million Dollar Poster”, which is basically the product of the individual efforts of Fatih Yurr and Hakan Tunga Kalkan and was produced without any financial support from any institution or organization, was fueled by a crowdfunding project designed only during the start of the journey.
In this process, important names from the Swing Planet Istanbul team accompanied the documentary team. Thanks to this large participation, a different and more dynamic work emerged than the documentary approach that has been put forward so far.
A LIVING MUSEUM OF POSTER CULTURE
Although the documentary was conceived as a feature-length work, it seems that it will evolve into comprehensive studies on collection dynamics. Aiming to produce small documentaries from the mutual interviews they had made with names such as İbrahim Enez, Şahin Karakoç, Ömer Muz, Erol Ağakay and Kunt Tulgar, the team also included the sections of the interviews with other names in the documentary, “Retroville” opened by Fatih Yurr. He plans to feature it on his Youtube channel named after him.
In addition, Fatih Yurr completed the compilation last year, in which he deciphered the interviews he had with all the names in the documentary and shaped it on the axis of an academic study on the development of poster culture in Turkey and the world. In short, this compilation is waiting to be published, albeit in limited numbers, by a publishing house that might want to claim this memory legacy.
THE JOURNEY ENDS NOW!
The documentary, which had the chance to be screened in many festivals abroad during the pandemic process, thought that it would be pointless to wait any longer to work after an already quite long and grueling post-production phase, due to the extremely cumbersome process of negotiations for broadcasting on various platforms and the suspension of general screenings, He found it convenient to publish it for free on Youtube.
Those who feel ready for this extremely fantastic journey June 1, 2022 “Million Dollar Banner” from the date ofretroville“They will be able to watch it for free on the Youtube channel. The crew of the documentary invites you to rediscover the real Yeşilçam culture!
How about entering the summer with a documentary like a staple?
