:36:09
- This film was shot in Toronto
almost a year ago.
:36:15
- Yeah, that's right.
:36:17
- And now you're coming back
from Turkey
:36:19
with these cans of footage?
:36:37
Well, this tells me
you worked on this film
:36:40
as a production assistant
and driver.
:36:42
This is a letter
of recommendation
:36:44
for future employment.
It doesn't explain
:36:46
why you're returning
from Turkey months later.
:36:49
- There was some stuff
they wanted to add in Turkey.
:36:52
They added a character.
:36:54
They?
- Well, the director.
:36:56
And the writer. And my mom.
:36:59
- Your mom?
:37:01
- Yeah.
She's an art-history professor.
:37:04
She was a consultant
on the film.
:37:06
She, uh, she got me the job.
:37:09
- So who's this new character?
:37:11
- Arshile Gorky. The painter.
:37:14
- Turkish painter.
- Armenian.
:37:17
- Now why did you
:37:18
go to Turkey
to shoot an Armenian painter?
:37:21
- Well, that's where he's from.
He was born there.
:37:24
Armenia was historically part
of Eastern Turkey. Anatolia.
:37:30
- And they sent you alone?
:37:33
Without a crew?
:37:35
- Well, they wouldn't have gotten
permission to send a crew there.
:37:38
- Why not?
- Well, it's not that easy
:37:40
to shoot a story about
the Armenian genocide in Turkey.
:37:42
It's politically... sensitive.
:37:45
- In what way?
:37:47
- Because the Turkish authorities
don't want to admit it happened.
:37:50
- Oh. Why not?
:37:57
- Well, you'd have to ask them.