‘Heaven’ becomes Turkey’s first audio-narrated feature

The group began its work in the summer of 2006, when it narrated Umut Ural's award-winning short film "Çarpışma" (Crash) and screened the film's narrated version in various provinces, including Diyarbakır, Yalova, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Ankara, İzmir, Konya and Adana.  Kenan Önalan, the group's coordinator and visually impaired himself, said at a press conference on Tuesday at the Mithat Alam Film Center that their aim was to increase public awareness of the challenges the visually impaired are faced with. "Watching a film without having to depend on somebody else is a unique experience that we [visually impaired] sometimes have abroad or on the Internet. We wanted to bring this opportunity to every visually impaired person in Turkey," Önalan said, adding that they were endeavoring to develop a cinema culture among the visually impaired in Turkey through these efforts.