ENZO IKAH: Director Composer & Actor
Ikah, although being trained as a Psychologist in France, for long years Enzo sang at a Chorus group where he got to travel all around the world. After turning back from France, Enzo decided to take action against the corruption in DRC. Ona life TV program, he performed his song named "Brutal Soldier" which tried to raise awareness on soldiers' exploitation of people, he was arrested by the authorities and was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment where he got tortured. He had to flee to save his life , bribing the police, he jumped to the first flight he could go with and has found himself in Istanbul. Enzo, has been granted asylum as a political refugee in Turkey on 2011, after waiting for five long years.
Enzo has spent his limbo state very productive and released three albums and one single up to date. His first solo maxi single album "Red, Black & White" was released on 2010 , and a year later he released his full album '' Rainbow '' ( 2011) , Revolution (Single June 2013) and Welcome to İstanbul (Upcoming) will be soon released. Enzo has already performed in 31 Turkish cities, in which he has been invited to give talks and perform at many human rights events, consulates, universities and various cultural festivals .
Enzo has also acted in the film Broken mussels '' Kırık Midyeler '' and featured at Turkish TV series; Kara Yılan in antena A , Kayıp şehır in Chanel D. Refugee Here I am is Enzo's first documentary film in which he is directing, acting and composing music for. The documentary film will be an autobiographical account of Enzo's inspiring musical journey in Istanbul. He aims to give hope and share his experiences and knowledge with the young refugees. Enzo is dedicated to realize and continue his work on cultural and musical projects with the Union of the young refugees in Turkey, where he is a founding member of.
OFFICIAL PAGE: www.enzoikah.com
Enzo has spent his limbo state very productive and released three albums and one single up to date. His first solo maxi single album "Red, Black & White" was released on 2010 , and a year later he released his full album '' Rainbow '' ( 2011) , Revolution (Single June 2013) and Welcome to İstanbul (Upcoming) will be soon released. Enzo has already performed in 31 Turkish cities, in which he has been invited to give talks and perform at many human rights events, consulates, universities and various cultural festivals .
Enzo has also acted in the film Broken mussels '' Kırık Midyeler '' and featured at Turkish TV series; Kara Yılan in antena A , Kayıp şehır in Chanel D. Refugee Here I am is Enzo's first documentary film in which he is directing, acting and composing music for. The documentary film will be an autobiographical account of Enzo's inspiring musical journey in Istanbul. He aims to give hope and share his experiences and knowledge with the young refugees. Enzo is dedicated to realize and continue his work on cultural and musical projects with the Union of the young refugees in Turkey, where he is a founding member of.
OFFICIAL PAGE: www.enzoikah.com
EDA ELIF TIBET: Director Cinematographer & Editor
Eda, was born in September 1987 to a Turkish family in Istanbul. She has spent her childhood in Lisbon Portugal and came back to Turkey during high school. She , obtained a degree on Economics and during her studies, she found herself in India realizing her dream of living and visually documenting the various Indian colorful cultures. She then went on pursuing an Mphil on Social Anthropology at the University of Kent (UK) where she was introduced to visual anthropology. Her first documentary film "28 Days on the Moon" (2012) as part of her research among the displacement of the cave dwellers from a world heritage site in Cappadocia where Eda has ancestry from, has been screened in various international documentary film festivals and broadcasted by Turkey's foremost documentary TV channel IZ TV. Eda then went on working on Tibetan Medicine in Ladakh/India at the Ladakh Society for Traditional Medicines (NGO) where she suddenly found herself filming the journey of an inspiring Tibetan doctor that she was fortunate traveling together with. The journey ending up as a visual anthropology film "Amchi" (2013) ,is now being screened on various film festivals.
Eda is keen on combining activism and anthropology into her documentaries, by teaming up with the people she films and directs together. Eda, up to date has produced all her films independently under her independent label Tibetto Productions, where she does commissioned works for NGOs and individuals too. Refugee Here I am (2014) is her latest documentary that she has been working on together for more then a year now, together with her friend Enzo Ikah. Eda is currently a PhD student on Social Anthropology at Yeditepe University in Istanbul / Turkey.
OFFICIAL PAGE: www.tibettoproductions.weebly.com
Eda is keen on combining activism and anthropology into her documentaries, by teaming up with the people she films and directs together. Eda, up to date has produced all her films independently under her independent label Tibetto Productions, where she does commissioned works for NGOs and individuals too. Refugee Here I am (2014) is her latest documentary that she has been working on together for more then a year now, together with her friend Enzo Ikah. Eda is currently a PhD student on Social Anthropology at Yeditepe University in Istanbul / Turkey.
OFFICIAL PAGE: www.tibettoproductions.weebly.com