Director Fehmi Gerçeker Speaks to Haber Gold English

My name is Fehmi Gerçeker  I am from İstanbul, but I have been in New York City long time.
I studied and I got master’s degree  in television and cinema in New York  City University, after that I started to do some film productions in United States and I have been produced ad directed30 25 around   documentary films.  These are mostly international  films and I shot those almost in 29 countries at the World .
Recently I have been in İstanbul and I am producing  some documentary films for American and European distribution .
I was in Moroco abaout 6 months ago and I was very surprised  that I didn’t know that much about Morocco. I love the country and I stayed there enough time to understand some of the beauties over there, and I was very interested with a city Essaouira. It is on the shore of Atlantic Ocean.  I learned  that Orson Wells  shot the film of Othello over there. Also many very famous international wellknown artists, and musicians love the city.. They loved that area.
So I decided to do a  documentary film about that town.  I started to do some research on that city. As you know, in our documentary World, the most important part of the production is pre-production to do research and understand what we are presenting in our film.
I started to research on that area with my production team.  I contacted with Consulate of Istanbul of Royal Monaco and also I met with a very important businessman who is the director of Maracon and Turkey Business Association. We are planning to do the first shooting in the beginning of August in Morocco, then we will be planning to shoot the film the end of this year maybe October or September,
Culture wise there are similarities between Morocco and Turkey.  Morocco has tramendous culture and historical background It's the same for Turkey.
Turkey and Morocco several times got together in the history. Both of them are the bridge of many countries. As we know Ottoman Empire bridge of Europe and Asia in many years. Morocco has the same situation it is the bridge of The New World and  Europe, We try to bring out these historical values of  in our film.