Leave The Door Open

Two boys newly arrived in Washington DC in the 1930s are overjoyed at the prospect of being in the heartland of their jazz idols and the opportunity to regularly see them perform live.Their names were Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün. They are, however, dismayed at the rampant racial discrimination which could derail their dream. But they are determined.

ÜMRAN SAFTER

Ümran Safter is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. For more than two decades she covered Turkey and the Middle East including the wars in Iraq and Syria for both print and television media. She started her filmmaking career in 2015 with a feature-length documentary called The Eye of Istanbul, followed by Sevan the Craftsman and The Sin of Being a Woman.