One feature across many worlds
I worked as cinematographer and editor across more than five clubs, filming youth teams, interviews, and locations by day and night. The challenge was shaping those different worlds into one feature.
06/10
Feature Documentary
Getting to the Grassroots
Director of Photography · Editor / BERK ÖZCAN
Cinematography and editing for a feature documentary about amateur football in Turkey, beginning in İzmir’s Çamdibi neighbourhood. Filmed across more than five clubs, youth teams, interviews, and multiple locations by day and night.
- CLIENT / ARTIST
- Independent documentary
- CONTRIBUTION
- Director of Photography · Editor
- DISCIPLINE
- Cinematography
THE FILM,
assembled.
I also edited the feature documentary, shaping material from more than five clubs, multiple age groups, interviews, training grounds, neighbourhood streets, and day-and-night match coverage into one sustained story. The editorial role connected the separate clubs and locations while preserving the people and communities around the game.
- FORMAT
- Feature documentary
- CONTRIBUTION
- Editor / Berk Özcan
Inside the work.
Getting close without losing the world around the game
Low street-level views, close pitch-side frames, physical details, and wider crowd scenes balance individual experience with the collective life around each club.
Daylight, interiors, and nighttime football
Strong backlight, shaded faces, reflective interiors, and an amber night pitch remain visibly distinct. The changing atmosphere becomes part of the film rather than something to neutralize.
Cinematography and editing
I also edited the documentary, bringing multiple clubs, age groups, interviews, and locations into a single feature-length structure.
PRODUCTION / CONTRIBUTORSDirectorGörkem Gül ↗
MORE INFORMATIONFilm credits ↗
07 FRAMES
SELECT A FRAME / OPEN THE SEQUENCE
CLUBS. Conversations. Communities.
Directed by Görkem Gül, the documentary begins in İzmir’s Çamdibi neighbourhood and follows the pressures facing amateur football clubs and players. The production’s release announcement records support from Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and a public YouTube release during the pandemic.
The selected frames move between low views of street football, close details of worn boots and rolled socks, individual faces, and wider scenes of spectators. Muted greens and warm skin tones connect the daylight material; the nighttime pitch has a distinctly amber palette. Together, these images place football within a lived-in neighbourhood rather than isolating it as sporting spectacle.
