Biography Dox

Blue ID

Burcu Melekoğlu, Vuslat Karan
Screening time  
31.03. / Friday, 17:30 - 19:30 Theatre 1  

A well-known actress since the age of 10, Rüzgar Erkoçlar maintained a consistent acting career until 2012 when she decided to begin her gender affirmation process. She believed, maybe naively, that she could do this under the radar and re-socialize as an anonymous man. Once his appearance started to change, he got a job at a bakery. But about seven months into hormone replacement therapy, a former music producer, new social media personality outed him on Twitter to his 1.2 million followers. These circumstances forced him to go through with his quest for his identity in front of the public eye and under extreme media scrutiny. Ultimately, Blue ID is a film about seeking love and acceptance and pursuing one’s true identity in order to live an authentic life.

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Burcu Melekoğlu

Burcu Melekoğlu is director and editor based in Istanbul with a BA in Systems Engineering from UPenn. She worked on film projects after getting her MA from UCLA School of Film and Television. Believing in the power of independent documentary film to change hearts and minds she founded MOXIE, an independent production company in Istanbul.

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Vuslat Karan

Vuslat Karan is a filmmaker living in Istanbul. She got her BFA in Film and TV from Marmara University. Her short films Tangled (2011) and Scorpion (2010) debuted at !f istanbul film festival along with a hybrid doc Uprooting From the City (2006). She co-founded Moxie, an independent production company releasing her first feature film Blue ID, co-directed with Burcu Melekoğlu.

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Turkey
2022, 84'

Directed by:
Burcu Melekoğlu, Vuslat Karan

Cinematography:
Burcu Melekoğlu, Vuslat Karan, Meryem Yavuz

Edited by:
Burcu Melekoğlu

Music:
Baptiste Gacoin

Producers:
Burcu Melekoğlu, Vuslat Karan, Dilek Aydın, Efe Durmaz

Produced by:
Moxie Films, Heimatlos Films

Festivals & Awards:

IDFA: Audience Award (2022), Thessaloniki IFF (2023)