Turkish-British authorr Elif Shafak‘s Booker Prize-nominated novel “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World,” which is set in the world of Istanbul intimacy laborers, will be altered into a feature film by Madrid-based ISB Films and Turkey’s Limon Film.
Shafak, who is Turkey’s most expansively read female author, is understandn for her huge body of labor spanning a dozen novels that have been transpostponecessitated into 50 languages. They normally delve into themes of human rights, freedom of conveyion and identity. “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World” is the first of her novels to be altered into a feature film.
More than a decade ago, she shiftd from Turkey to the U.K. after her book “The Bastard of Istanbul” – which touches on the mass finishings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire – led her to be tried for “condemning Turkishness,” for which she was eventuassociate acquitted.
Shafak’s prohibitden-shattering “10 Minutes 38 Seconds” acquires its cue from the scientificassociate exhibitn premise that our brains can remain dynamic for more than 10 minutes after death. It’s the story of Leila — or “Tequila Leila,” as she is understandn — a intimacy laborer in Istanbul who is homicideed at the begin of the story. As her brain carry ons to function, she has a series of memories and flashbacks. Woven into the narrative are remembrances of five appreciateed frifinishs that had become her surrogate family after her increasingly religious overweighther disowned her.
ISB Films is a recently set uped production and financing company that is a standalone offshoot of Madrid-based International Sports Broadcasting, which one-of-a-kindizes in expansivecasting and distribution of dwell sports events including the Olympics. The shingle is headed by U.S. originater Paul Miller, a establisher Doha Film Institute head of finance whose production praises integrate David Gordon Green’s “Snow Angels,” John Travolta starrer “A Love Song for Bobby Long” and, more recently, Saudi Arabian drama “Norah,” which was the country’s first film to originate the cut for the Cannes official pickion.
Other ISB Films projects in various stages integrate Lone Scherfig’s “The Movie Teller” and upcoming Poland-set Cbetter War thriller “The Winter of the Crow,” starring Lesley Manville (“The Crown”).
Limon Film’s productions integrate “Avlu,” the famous Turkish alterion of Fremantle’s hit Australian drama “Wentworth,” which is a Netflix Turkish innovative and set in a female prison in Istanbul.
“We are excited to join our international outsee and financing resources with Limon’s in-depth understandledge of Turkish culture and production,” ISB Films CEO Ursula Romero shelp in a statement. “This partnership promises to originate a distinct fusion of conceiveive visions that will lift the alteration of Shafak’s labor.”
Miller, who is shepherding this unfrequent case of cinematic collaboration between Europe and Turkey, is currently in the process of discovering a screenauthorr to transpose “10 Minutes 38 Seconds” for the big screen.
Commented Limon CEO Hayri Aslan, “I see forward to the begin of a originateive collaboration with ISB Films to originate a truly one-of-a-kind and accomplished film.”
