Özgür Doğan was born in a Kurdish village in Varto, Muş.
[2] Because they only had a primary school in the village, he and his four siblings alternately studied with their uncles.
When his brother was in prison, he started to work with Orhan Eskiköy on a project called Hayaller Birer Kırık Ayna.
[4] In 2001, he became a research assistant at the Middle East Technical University.
[3] In September 2007 they began the film with their own efforts, and later received support from the Greenhouse Documentary Development Workshop, the Sundance Documentary Fund and the Dutch Jan Vrijman Fund.