Ain’t No Cinderellas! (12+)
Turkey, 2014, colour, 52 min.
Director: Pakize Emel Celebi
Director: Pakize Emel Celebi
The film chronicles the struggle of Turkish domestic workers to form a workers’ union for women working in an unregulated sector. Labouring devoid of any rights also makes them invisible to the public. The film observes these women fighting for their rights, trying to get the government to respond to their pleas for decent working conditions and coverage by the Union and Collective Bargaining Law.
Pakize Emel Celebi
Pakize Emel Celebi
has studied English literature and worked in various magazines as editor, interpreter and writer. Her first film “Housekeeper” has won the Best Documentary Award in 43rd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and the First Prize in 9th Women’s Film Festival in Seoul. Her second documentary “Sisters of Lilith” has won the “Best Balkan Documentary” award in 8st Dokufest Documentary and Short Film Festival in Prizren, Kosovo. She is also among the organizers of Documentarist-Istanbul Documentary Days and Human Rights Watch Film Festival in İstanbul.
FILMOGRAPHY
Housekeeper, 2006; Sisters of Lilith, 2008; Ain’t No Cinderellas!, 2014.
Turkey, 2014, colour, 52 min.
Director: Pakize Emel Celebi
Director: Pakize Emel Celebi
The film chronicles the struggle of Turkish domestic workers to form a workers’ union for women working in an unregulated sector. Labouring devoid of any rights also makes them invisible to the public. The film observes these women fighting for their rights, trying to get the government to respond to their pleas for decent working conditions and coverage by the Union and Collective Bargaining Law.