White Collar Peasants

First they worked to get accepted into the best schools, then to get a job in the best institutions and to work in the best positions. They are white collar workers. Perhaps it's all the glass in the plazas they work in that creates this greenhouse effect, but almost all of them are trying to settle in a village or their hometown, and realize their dream of an "organic life." Oddly, those who settle in the countryside make a living by selling their products to their friends in the city.

Are these organic, ecological, nature-integrated lives really as they appear on social media? What are the factors pushing educated people in Turkey to migrate? Why are the cities uninhabitable? How long do those who migrate to the villages stay there? What kind of shocks are they experiencing? And what are they doing now? Let's follow the real story of the white collar peasants…

Hazar Uyar
Born in 1990 in Istanbul. He graduated from Akdeniz University, Department of Public Relations and Advertising. Working in advertising agencies since 2009, Hazar won dozens of awards at local and global creativity festivals with the projects he was involved in as a copywriter and creative group head. In 2017, he was included in Turkey's "30 most creative names under 30" list. In 2022, he shot his first documentary film White Collar Peasants with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.