The Sound
Budget
Budget Range
Under $10 000
Film
Original Title (If different)
Ses
Film Language
Turkish
Other languages or subtitles
English
Production country
Turkey
Theme
Education
Production year
Category/Format
Independant
Student film
No
Film URL Site
Film Credits
Film director
Olcay Seda Özaltan
About the Director
She was born in 1982. She studied Humanities (American Literature and Culture) at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. After working at tourism and trade sectors, she became a state school English teacher in 2006. She got her master’s degree on ELT at Ahmet Yesevi University in 2017.
She started taking photographs in 2007 and doing nail art in 2012. She translated subtitles for some series. Then, she got interested in filmmaking in 2015. She finished her first short “The Escapade” in June 2018. Then, she started to work on her second project, "Juncture", but is is still in post production. "The Sound" (2019) is her third taken but second released short.
She took cinema classes from Mr. Hakan Dibel at DEU university. For the last 4 years, she has been attending his cinema club once a week. She still is an English teacher; trying to educate her students also on literature, photography, film, and scriptwriting.
Instagram:
Photography: @sedaozaltan
Nail Art: @adournails
Screenplay
Zehra Nur Tiren
Editing
Olcay Seda Özaltan
Music
Zeynep Nur Görücü
Art Director
Merve Yeşil
Film synopsis
A deaf-mute 17-year-old music school student practices for the show tonight. As she cannot hear what she is playing, she watches the vibration of certain liquids (water, olive oil and pomegranate syrup) in the glasses on her piano.
When she is announced for the show, we cannot see her teacher in the audience, she would show up a couple of minutes later. After the performance, her teacher congratulates her with the sign language, and Arya thanks her telling she has written the song for her. They hug each other. Everyone applauds.
Publicity Info
Publicity contact email
sedaozaltan@gmail.com
Trailer availble
no
