Malcolm Guy is a Montreal-based director/producer of documentaries and fiction films and is President and co-founder of Productions Multi-Monde. In 2004, he directed two feature-length documentaries, Rebel Music Americas (avec Marie Boti) and Turbulent Waters (with Michelle Smith). He has also directed Pressure Point: Inside the Montreal Blockade (1999) (co-directed with Magnus Isacsson and Anna Paskal – Best documentary, L'Association québecoise des critiques de cinéma), The Suit War en 1997 et La montagne d'or (avec William Ging Wee Dere) en 1993.
Malcolm has produced Cherry Fruitbread (2003) (audience prize, Best Canadian short film, Festival des films du monde), When Strangers Reunite (1999), Modern Heroes Modern Slaves (1997) (Best documentary, Canadian Association of Journalists), and the feature film L'Oreille d'un sourd (1996). Malcolm is also active in the independent film community and sits on a number of Boards of Directors.


Eylem Kaftan was born in Turkey. Eylem completed a Masters degree in Cinema at York University in 2002, where she worked as a teaching assistant and wrote her thesis on the identity crisis in post-1980 Turkish cinema.

Her first documentary, Faultlines, investigates the aftermath of the earthquake which hit Turkey in 1999. It won Best Short Film and the Jury Prize at the Planet Indie Film Festival in Toronto.

Eylem then wrote and directed Vendetta Song (2005) produced with DLI Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada. This gripping hour long documentary about her personal journey into the honor-killing of her aunt in a small Kurdish village in Turkey was broadcast on Vision TV and Télé-Québec and has received several awards including CIDA Prize for Best Canadian Documentary on International Development at Hot Docs; the Quebec Film Critics Association Award for Best Medium Length Documentary; Best Documentary, Calgary International festival; and Best Documentary, Female Eye Film Festival.

Eylem has contributed to several Canadian documentaries on social and political issues ranging from immigration and women's rights to mental illness and culture shock. Eylem is presently working on her new documentary on Kurdish youth.

 

 

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