Call for film funding

The team behind a movie planned to filmed around London’s Green Lanes has appealed for support from the public.

The makers of the short film, entitled “Our Cyprus”, hope to using crowdfunding to raise funds for the project that will tell a “powerful, untold story”.

A description on the project’s website says the film “explores what happens when two opposing views collide.”

It continues: “An old Turkish Cypriot man, Mehmet Ali, remembers a beautifully mixed Cyprus before the island was torn in two, a time when in his village, Lurucina, Greek and Turkish Cypriots lived as friends, neighbours and compatriots.

“He meets a young UK born Greek Cypriot man, Andreas, who has been brought up with the pain and loss in the aftermath of the Cypriot troubles. As far as he is concerned, Turkish Cypriots are enemies.”

For reasons that will be very apparent in the film, Mehmet-Ali cannot walk away from Andreas, but what will it take? What will be the personal cost to Mehmet-Ali to try to prove to Andreas that they two could be friends and not enemies? Can a single act of selfless courage overcome a lifetime of hatred?”

As of Wednesday evening, the team wre nearly halfway towards their £7,750 target.

Anyone interested in supporting the film from as little as £5 can visit the project’s website to learn more: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/our-cyprus

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