Eighth edition of Meetings on the Bridge will take place on 5-12 April this year, under the sponsorship of Efes. Efes, who has been supporting the Turkish cinema for the past 26 years, will now be supporting the films from the beginning of the development and production stages.
Meetings on the Bridge continues to bring together directors, producers and scriptwriters of films and film projects from Turkey with international film professionals this year. With a significantly increasing number of participants and with a more comprehensive program, MoB keeps contributing to international success of Turkish cinema and pioneering the maiden efforts of co-productions.
The very first presentations of 12 projects selected among 159 applications to Film Development Workshop will be held on 10-11 April. Directors, producers and scriptwriters of the selected projects will have presentation and pitching sessions with Gabriele Brunnenmeyer.
Two days of workshop will host one-to-one meetings and gathered presentations of the projects to the international jury only. Projects to be granted awards will be decided after these presentations. Our purpose is to create oppurtunities for the film projects that have an international quality and are eligible to co-productions and to keep supporting these projects on the following stages.
"Work In Progress Workshop" organized for the first time last year, is open to feature films and documentaries at post-production stage from Turkey and will hold their first international presentations.
We are celebrating the success of the films and projects that attended the workshops of the previous years within the Istanbul Film Festival. Following projects that has attended workshops now taking place in the festival program; Küf / Mold (Ali Aydın),Yozgat Blues (Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun), Şimdiki Zaman / Present Tense (Belmin Söylemez), Hayatboyu / Lifelong (Aslı Özge), Evdeki Yabancılar / Strangers in the House (Dilek Keser-Ulaş Güneş Kacargil) and Devir / Cycle (Derviş Zaim).
Meetings on the Bridge keeps collaborating international cinema institutions. Last year a producer from Turkey attended Rotterdam Film Lab as a result of the collaboration with Cinemart. After Meetings on the Bridge, directors and producers keep developing their projects at the major workshops including Cinelink, Torino Film Lab ve Moulin d’ande.
MoB panels will focus on important topics that will be interesting for the filmmakers. Isabelle Fauvel will be giving a cinema masterclass in liaison with Torino Film Lab on Film Adaptations of Literature, which we started to see examples in Turkish cinema lately.
Pierre-Alexander Labelle, founder of Under the Milky Way, one of the major companies in digital distribution and new media industry, will talk about digital marketing and online distribution channels and the new social media management software, Waveback.
In “Solutions to Post-production Problems in Co-productions” panel, Sebastien Delloye, producer and co-founder of ep2c workshops that focus on post-production problems in co-productions and Katriel Schory, director of the Israel Film Fund, will be sharing their experience on production, post-production and co-production challenges that co-producers are familiar with.
2014 is the 600th year of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and Turkey. Foreshadowing the future co-productions between the two countries, “Meet the Polish Film Industry’ panel will be held with the participation of Lodz Film School and Wajda School representatives, in collaboration with the Polish Film Institute and Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
In “What do we know about the project development stage?” panel, targeting film students, Tobias Pausinger and Gabriele Brunnenmeyer will share their experiences about the project and development stages in production.
First conversancy with Georgia, that haven’t proceeded a co-production with Turkey yet, will also happen within the scope of Meetings on the Bridge this year. Managers of Georgia Film Center and outstanding producers from Georgia will realise their first meetings with the projects accepted to the Film Development Workshop.
Meetings on the Bridge awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, 11 April and projects to be granted awards and funds will be announced.
The eighth edition of the Meetings on the Bridge within the scope of the Istanbul Film Festival, organised under the sponsorship of Efes, has continued to offer opportunities for initial international presentations of new feature films, bringing together international producers, directors, scriptwriters and organisation representatives with the ones from Turkey. The awarded projects in the Film Development Workshop and Work in Progress organised under the scope of Meetings on the Bridge with the supports of Efes, as well as the projects to be supported by the Turkey-Germany Co-Production Development Fund were presented at an Awards Ceremony held on Thursday, 11 April at Palais de France and hosted by Laurent Bili, French Ambassador to Turkey.
The Work in Progress, which is open to feature films and documentaries that have completed 50% of the shooting or in post production in the aiming to support the completion of the films, was held for the second time this year under the scope of the Meetings on the Bridge. 5 films are selected by the Advisory Board of the Meetings on the Bridge consisting of Azize Tan, Gülin Üstün and Tobias Pausinger.
At the Awards Ceremony Paolo Bertolin stated "First of all the jury would like to express an award of praise for all projects included in the Work in Progress Workshop. Through their different narrative and aesthetic approaches, the five Work in Progress films mirrors and project a variety of currents and trends among the directors at their first and second feature, that hails a bright and very diverse for future New Turkish Cinema. We thus would like to equally congratulate the selection committe for its choices and the filmmakers for their efforts to bring to life and to the big screen their stories and visions."
The projects selected in the Work in Progress of the Meetings on the Bridge are:
Kalandar Soğuğu / Cold of Kalandar (Director: Mustafa Kara, Producer: Nermin Aytekin)
Kar Korsanları / Snow Pirates (Director: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu, Producer: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu)
Kusursuzlar / The Impeccables (Director: Ramin Matin, Producers: Giyotin Film / Emine Yıldırım, Oğuz Kaynak ve Karavan Film / Bertrand Glosset)
Sesimi İzle / Watch My Soundtrack (Director: Koray Ezgin, Producer: Koray Ezgin)
Sivas (Director: Kaan Müjdeci, Producer: Kaan Müjdeci, Ret Film / Çiğdem Mater, Nesra Gürbüz)
Following the project presentations, the international jury, consisting of co-founder of Full House and producer Didar Domehri, selection committee and consultant Venice International Film Festival Paolo Bertolin and Wild Bunch Head of Acquisitions Marie-Pierre Valle selected Ramin Matin’s Kusursuzlar / The Impeccables which received 10.000 US Dollars “Efes Award”, presented for the first time this year. The award was presented to the producers of the film Emine Yıldırım, Oğuz Kaynak and Bertrand Glosset by Efes Turkey Brand PR and Communication Planning Manager Nihan Erçetin. 1000 VOLT Post Production Award by 1000 VOLT, which consist of the online editing and all the sound processing of the film, was presented by Murat İzzet Arslan, Volt Post Production Supervisor to Çiğdem Mater (Ret Film), Nesra Gürbüz (Ret Film), and Kaan Müjdeci, producer of Sivas.
“We have had a role in every film made for 26 years”
The awarded projects of Meetings on the Bridge, carried out within the scope of the festival and sponsored by Efes, which also supports the “National Competition and Turkish Cinema” sections of the festival for 26 years, were presented by Efes Turkey Brand PR and Communication Planning Manager Nihan Erçetin. While presenting the awards Erçetin said, “As Efes, we share different approaches, thoughts, dreams and even different life styles with filmgoers in venues for more than quarter of a century. Today, addressing you as the supporter of Istanbul Film Festival for the 26th time is a great honour for us. We are a label that was born on this land, and with the support of this land again we became a globally renowned actor in this industry. Therefore, it is a great content for us to support the filmgoers and films made on this land, and witnessing those films being circulated all over the world. The projects to be awarded tonight are in process and being developed still. It is exhilarating to give a hand to these projects that are at the beginning of their journeys”.
12 projects elected from among 159 applications for the Film Development Workshop, held for sixth time within the scope of the Meetings on the Bridge of the Istanbul Film Festival, by the Meetings on the Bridge Advisory Committee consisting of Ahmet Boyacıoğlu, Sevil Demirci, Yamaç Okur and the Selection Committee consisting of Feride Çiçekoğlu, Hüseyin Karabey and Serkan Çakarer.
The projects selected for the Film Development Workshop of the Meetings on the Bridge are:
Albüm / The Cliff Shore (Mehmetcan Mertoğlu)
Antoine Köpe’nin Günlükleri / Memoirs of Antoine Köpe (Nefin Dinç)
Bayrak / Flag (Ezgi Kaplan)
Ben Tek Siz Hepiniz / Everyman for Himself (İnan Temelkuran)
Cemil Şov / Cemil Show (Barış Sarhan)
Deniz Seviyesi / A Sea Apart (Nisan Dağ/Esra Saydam)
İkarus / Icarus (İlksen Başarır)
Kaçış / Escape (Kenan Kavut)
Kan Parası / Blood Money (Kıvanç Sezer)
Kardeşler / Brothers (Ömür Atay)
Mavi Çadır / Blue Tent (Marşa Franco)
Saklı / Secret (Selim Evci)
The owners of the 12 projects elected from the applications met with the International Jury consisting of Can Anamur (D Yapım), Didem Oğuz (Melodika), Ewa Puszczynska (Opus Film), Gamila Ylstra (Bingerlab Filmlab), Jacqueline Ada (CNC), Nadia Turincev (Rouge International), Olivier Pere (Arte France), Roberto Olla (Eurimages), on 10-11 April.
With his project Album / The Cliff Shore, Mehmet Can Mertoğlu was presented with the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Tourism and Culture Support Award of USD 10,000 as well as Melodika’s Sound Post-Production Support Award.
İnan Temelkuran was awarded with the Support Award of EURO 10,000 presented by French National Cinema Center (CNC), the backbone of the French film industry, with his project Ben Tek Siz Hepiniz / Everyman For Himself.
Nefin Dinç’s project Antoine Köpe’nin Günlükleri / Memoirs of Antoine Köpe was awarded with the Binger Lab Script Consultancy scholarship of EURO 2,500 given for the third time this year. This scholarship started to be provided as of 2011 by the Dutch film institution Binger Lab, an organisation reputable in the international film industry and specialized in script doctorate and project consultancy, involves a one-to-one study with the Binger Lab script consultant over skype.
The awards were presented to the selected projects by Laurent Bili, French Ambassador to Turkey, Binger Lab General Director Gamila Ylstra and Melodika’s co-founder Didem Oğuz.
During the ceremony, the projects to be supported by the Turkey-Germany Co-Production Development Fund aiming at providing a further incentive for co-productions between the two countries through the cooperation of the İstanbul Film Festival Meetings on the Bridge, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund were also announced.
The 6 projects elected unanimously by the jury consisting of representative of institutions from among the 10 submitted projects will be supported with a fund. The representatives of all the three institutions noted the high quality of the projects and expressed that they were excited for new Turkish-German co-productions to arise in the futur and that they were much pleased to have worked together.
The 6 projects to be supported by the Turkish-German Co-Production Fund are:
Rüzgarın Hatıraları / Memories of the Wind (Özcan Alper)- 22.000 Euro
Co-producers: Nar Film Yapım (TR), Bredok Film Production (DE)
Kardeşler / Brothers (Ömür Atay)- 15.000 Euro
Producer: Anka Film (TR), Beleza Film (DE)
Sessizlik / Silence (Seren Yüce)- 20.000 Euro
Producer: Motiva Film (TR), Wüste Film OST (DE)
Kervan Ateşi / The Tales of Caravanserai (Ezel Akay)- 20.000 Euro
Producer: 90 Film Prodüksiyon (TR), Bredok Film Production (DE)
Nefesim Kesilene Kadar / Until I Lose My Breath (Emine Emel Balcı)- 20.000 Euro
Producer: Prolog Film (TR) / Una Film (DE)
Mesafe / Distance (Rezan Yesilbas)- 10.000 Euro
Producer: Yeni Sinemacilik (TR), mîtosfilm(DE)
The Meetings on the Bridge aims at standing by our filmmakers during their international excursions and supporting new prospects in our film industry. Offering film makers an international platform for presenting their projects and providing them the means for locating the support required for initiating their production stages, the on the Bridge will continue to bring together European institution representatives and Turkish filmmakers within the scope of Istanbul Film Festival in the years to come.
Meetings on the Bridge organised within the 32nd Istanbul Film Festival, and sponsored by EFES this year, has announced the results for the 2013 Film Development Workshop: 12 projects are selected from among 159 applications, by the Meetings on the Bridge advisory committee (composed of Ahmet Boyacıoğlu, Sevil Demirci, and Yamaç Okur) and the selection committee (composed of Feride Çiçekoğlu, Hüseyin Karabey, and Serkan Çakarer.)
The 12 projects selected for the sixth Film Development Workshop are as follows:
1. Ben Tek Siz Hepiniz / Me Against Y’all (İnan Temelkuran)
2. Kaçış / Escape (Kenan Kavut)
3. Saklı / Secret (Selim Evci)
4. Kan Parası / Blood Money (Kıvanç Sezer)
5. Antoine Köpe’nin Günlükleri / Memoirs of Antoine Köpe (Nefin Dinç)
6. Cemil Şov / Cemil Show (Barış Sarhan)
7. Mavi Çadır / Blue Tent (Marşa Franco)
8. Kardeşler / Brothers (Ömür Atay)
9. Bayrak / Flag (Ezgi Kaplan)
10. Albüm / The Cliff Shore (Mehmetcan Mertoğlu)
11. İkarus / Icarus (İlksen Başarır)
12. Deniz Seviyesi / A Sea Apart (Nisan Dağ/Esra Saydam)
The first international presentations of these projects will be made at the Film Development Workshop to take place on April 10-11 within the framework of the Istanbul Film Festival.
The directors, producers and scriptwriters of the 12 projects will conduct one-on-one meetings with international film professionals and will hold training sessions on pitching with Gabriele Brunnenmeyer before the workshop. After the public pitching to the international jury, the award-winning projects will be decided upon.
Film Development Workshop Awards are:
• USD 10,000 Ministry of Culture and Tourism Award
• Euro 10,000 CNC Award
• Melodika Sound Post-Production Award
• Euro 2,500-worth Binger Script Advisory Award
The award-winning projects of the Film Development Workshop will be announced at the Meetings on the Bridge award reception on April 11.
Meetings on the Bridge continues to bring together film professionals from Europe and Turkey and giving place to first international presentations of feature length fiction and documentary films that are in post-production.
Eighth edition of Meetings on the Bridge will take place on 5-12 April this year, under the sponsorship of Efes. Efes, who has been supporting the Turkish cinema, also “International Competition” and “Turkish Cinema” sections of Istanbul Film Festival “for the past 26 years, will now be supporting the films from the beginning of the development and production stages.
The 5 films selected for the second edition of Work In Progress Workshop are as follows:
* Kalandar Soğuğu / Cold of Kalandar (Mustafa Kara)
* Kar Korsanları / Snow Pirates (Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu)
* Kusursuzlar / The Impeccables (Ramin Matin)
* Sesimi İzle / Watch My Soundtrack (Koray Ezgin)
* Sivas (Kaan Müjdeci)
The award winning film of last year’s workshop Strangers in the House / Eve Gelen Yabancılar (Dilek Keser, Ulaş Güneş Kacargil) will be screened in the New Turkish Cinema section of the Istanbul Film Festival. The Cycle / Devir (Derviş Zaim) selected for the workshop last year is participating in the National Competition.
Workshop on 10-11 April
The award winning films will be decided by the international jury of distributors, festival representatives and producers, at the end of the Work In Progress Workshop.
Producers of the award winning films will be granted with 10.000 American Dolar EFES AWARD, to be used for the publicity of the film and 1000VOLT Post-Prodüksiyon Award, to be used for the finalization of post production process of the film.
The award-winning projects of the Work In Progress Workshop will be announced at the Meetings on the Bridge award reception on Thursday, 11 April at the French Palais.
In 2010 German and Turkish film professionals have taken initiatives to work together. In order to encourage the cooperation of producers in Turkey and those in the regions of Berlin-Brandenburg and Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), the Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and the Istanbul Film Festival - Meetings on the Bridge with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism have agreed to support the development of film projects. The Fund has a maximum of €150,000 per year at its disposal.
Please click for the supported 14 projects.
FRIDAY, 5 APRIL
14:00 – 15:30
Akbank Sanat (2nd Floor)
What Do We Know About “Project Development”?
In this panel moderated by producer Enis Köstepen (Bulut Film) and targeting film students, Tobias Pausinger and Gabriele Brunnenmeyer will be sharing their experiences about the project and development stages in production.
* The panel is free of charge for film students.
MONDAY, 8 APRIL
11:00 - 12:30
Akbank Sanat (2nd Floor)
VoD and New Methods of Film Distribution and Marketing
Pierre-Alexander Labelle, founder of Under the Milky Way, one of the major companies in digital distribution and new media industry, will be discussing digital marketing, introduce the new social media management software Waveback and will make a comparative evaluation of online distribution channels.
13:30 - 15:00
Akbank Sanat (2nd Floor)
Co-Production with Georgia
Films produced in Georgia has been great interest for international festivals in recent years. First Turkey_Georgia co-produced film ‘Memories of the Wind’s director and producer Özcan Alper(Nar Film) and producer Vladimer Katcharava (20 Steps Productions) along with Georgian Film Center deputy director Salome Sepashvili and Georgian Eurimages representative Tamara Tatishvili with the participation of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism General Directorate of Cinema will have a review on film funds and essentials of film production in the panel moderated by producer Gulen Guler.
15:00 - 16:30
Istanbul Bilgi University Santral Campus, Energy Museum Seminar Hall
French Film Industry and Support System
In the panel targeting film students from Turkey Éric Garandeau, President of CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée), will be giving brief information on the French film industry, the funding system and World Cinema Fund (Aide aux Cinemas du Monde)
*The panel is free of charge for film students.
**There will be a shuttle from IKSV at 14:00.
TUESDAY, 9 APRIL
10:30 - 12:00
Akbank Sanat (2nd Floor)
Turkey Meets Poland
In 2014 Poland and Turkey will celebrate the 600th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations. This year, proir to this occasion a film professionals' panel will be held, in order to initiate future co- productions between the two countries.
The event will be hosted in collaboration with Polish Film Institute and Adam Mickiewicz Institute and will be moderated by Bir Film’s CEO Ersan Çongar. The representative of Polish Film Institute, Maria Łętowska, the representatives of Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Kamila Kowalska and Tomasz Janowski, the representative of Lodz Film School, Marcin Malatyński along with the representatives of Wajda School, Joanna Solecka & Agnieszka Marczewska and the with the participation of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism General Directorate of Cinema will be also participating.
13:30-15:00
Salon IKSV
Today’s Micro Budget Is No Budget
In the panel moderated by Tobias Pausinger the director and co-producer of the film An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Danis Tanovic, co-producers Cedomir Kolar (A.S.A.P) and Amra Baksic Camo (Scca/pro.ba) will discuss the fascinating production process of the this film that was realized with a low budget and became the winner of the Jury Grand Prix and Best Actor in Berlin Film Festival. Film will also be screened at the Human Rights Competition section of Istanbul Film Festival.
15:30 – 17:00
Akbank Sanat (2nd Floor)
Master Class On Film Adaptations of Literature
This master class targeting producers, directors and scriptwriters interested in film adaptations of literature which we have also started the see in Turkish Cinema in recent years, will be taking place with the participation of Isabelle Fauvel, co-founder of TORINO ADAPT FILM LAB. Fauvel will be giving information about the workshop and stages of “producing film adaptations of literature” while sharing the 12 tips to focus. There will be a case study of the film Our Grand Despair by Seyfi Teoman which premiered in 2011 Berlin Film Festival competition section and an adaptation from Barış Bıçakçı’s story with the participation of Nadir Öperli.
THURSDAY, 11 APRIL
14:00- 16:00
Akbank Sanat (2nd Floor)
Solutions to post-production problems in Co-productions
Who said post-production is only about headaches, technical problems and overspent?
Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien et loup), producer and co-founder of ep2c workshops focusing on post-production problem in co-productions and Katriel Schory, director of the Israel Film Fund, will be sharing the solutions for the post-production challenges that co-producers are familiar with.
16:00- 17:30
French Cultural Center
Experience of Co-productions with the Armenia–Turkey Cinema platform
In the panel coordinated by French Cultural Center, platform founded by the initiative of Anadolu Kultur and Golden Apricot International Film Festival bringing together filmmakers from Turkey and Armenia and funding co-productions , will be sharing its six years of experience. Gor Baghdasaryan, director of Neighbours; Lusin Dink, director of Saroyanland to be screened in the 2013 Istanbul Film Festival National Competition, President of Golden Apricot International Fim Festival Harutyun Khachatryan, platform consultant Melek Ulagay and platform directors Çiğdem Mater with Susanna Harutyunyan will be participating.
▪ The Meetings on the Bridge panels and workshops to take place between 5 and 12 April at Akbank Sanat, Salon IKSV and French Cultural Center are open to all professional filmmakers and cinephiles.
▪ Participation fee for all the panels is 75 TL. Entrance to panels is free for festival badge holders.
▪ To participate at the panels please book in advance at IKSV Meetings on the Bridge office until 30 March and the hospitality desk at the Festival Centre in Akbank Sanat, during the festival.
For further information
E: onthebridge@iksv.org
T: (212) 334 08 37
VENUES
Akbank Sanat, İstiklal Street No:8 Beyoğlu
Salon IKSV, Nejat Eczacıbaşı Binası Şadi Konuralp Cad No:5 Şişhane
French Cultural Center, Istiklal Caddesi No:4 34435 Beyoğlu
Please click for the list of participants of Meetings On The Bridge 2013.
Please click here to download "Turkish Film Industry 2011-2012 Report" compiled by Ali Deniz Şensöz.
The directors and producers of the 12 projects elected from among the applications submitted for the Film Development Workshop held on 13-14 April within the scope of the Meetings On The Bridge have completed their one-to-one meetings with the representatives of organizations such as Cinemart, Sofia Film Lab, Israel Film Fund, Eurimages and ARTE. As a result of these meetings, Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun’s project Yozgat Blues was awarded with the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Tourism and Culture Support Award of USD 10,000 and Melodika Sound-Production Support Award value TL 25,000; Nesimi Yetik's project Toz Ruhu (Spirit of Dust) was awarded with the CNC Support Award of EURO 10,000; and, Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan’s project Mavi Dalga (Blue Wave) was awarded with the Binger Lab Script Advisory Consultancy Scholarship of EURO 2,500. Serhat Karaaslan’s project “Sidar” was also appreciated Special Mention of the jury.
Meanwhile; Asian Film Market executive Nam Dong Chui, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg Film Fund representative Teresa Hoefert de Turegano, Marion Klotz from Memento and Thibaut Bracq from Paris Cinema Project from among the participants of Meetings On The Bridge held meetings with directors and producers.
The 10 projects elected from within the applications for the Turkey-France Co-Production Meetings held on Monday, 11 April at Palais de France conducted meetings with producers among whom we may cite French National Cinema Center CNC's International Co-productions Director Julien Ezanno, Ilann Girard of Arsam International, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes Film Festival award winner film "Üç Maymun”s (Three Monkeys) French co-producer Stephane Parthenay (Pyramide Production) and Cedomir Kolar (A.S.A.P), imprinted in minds as the producer of "Before the Rain” and “No Man’s Land”. Foundations were laid for future co-productions as a result of these meetings.
The Meetings On The Bridge workshops conducted on Tuesday, 12 April at the French Cultural Center received a great deal of interest in its sixth year, as well. During the Turkey-France co-productions meeting held within the scope of the workshops, the co-production terms for the two countries, problems and solutions proposals therefore were discussed over a total of three projects, the production of one of which has been completed and the other two still in production stage. At the panel on transition to the digital age in the film industry, the novelties in cinema in France and Turkey brought about by the digital technology, as well as issues concerning New Media were discussed.
13 projects applied to the the Turkish-German Co-production Development Fund initiated this year as a result of the collaboration of Meetings on the Bridge- Istanbul Film Festival, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg and Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Funds . 7 projects are elected by the representatives of the institutions to be funded;
• Semih Kaplanoğlu - Yaz Sonu (Late Summer) – Co-producers: Kaplan Film , Heimat Film – 20,000 Euros
• Seyfi Teoman - Evliya (Saınts) - Producer: Bulut Film /Unafilm 10,000 Euros
• Hüseyin Karabey - Come to my Voice - Producer: ASI Film / Neue Mediopolis / EY Films (for production) 20,000 Euros
• Martina Priessener - A Road Named Desire - Producer: Inselfilm / Kaplan Film - 10,000 Euros
• Aslı Özge - Auf einmal (Ansızın) - Producer: EEE Film/ Liman Film 15,000 Euros
• Tunç Şahin - Ballad of Yemen ( Yemen Türküsü) - Producer: Yeni Bir Film / Looks Filmprouktion 10,000 Euros
• Heiko Aufdermauer - Fünfte Farbe (The fifth colour) - Producer: City West / Anka Film 10,000 Euros
The Meetings On The Bridge will continue to bring together representatives from European organizations and Turkish filmmakers next year, as well.
For further information, please contact:
onthebridge@iksv.org
T: +90 212 334 07 26
The newly created German-Turkish coproduction development fund, established by the Meetings on the Bridge - Istanbul Film Festival, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund in 2010, is pleased to announce its first selection of projects. After two intensive coproduction meetings between German and Turkish producers in the last two years, the partners decided to create a more concrete alliance by starting this new fund. 13 projects were submitted and 7 projects were unanimously selected to receive funding for a total of 100,000 €. The partners noted that that 'the quality of the projects we received was excellent and we are very excited about what the future may brıng in terms of new Turkish-German coproductions.' They all agreed that 'it has been a real pleasure working together!'
Projects supported:
• Semih Kaplanoğlu - Yaz Sonu (Late Summer) - Prod: Kaplan Film (TR) / Heimat Filmn (DE) - 20,000 €
• Seyfi Teoman - Evliya (Saints) - Prod: Bulut Film (TR) /Unafilm (DE) - 15,000 €
• Hüseyin Karabey - Come to my Voice - Prod: ASI Film (TR) / Neue Mediopolis (DE) / EY Films (FR) - 20,000 € (for production)
• Martina Priessener - A Road Named Desire - Prod: Inselfilm (DE)/ Kaplan Film (TR) - 10,000 €
• Asli Özge - Auf einmal (Ansızın) - Prod: EEE Film(DE)/ Liman Film (TR) - 15,000 €
• Tunç Şahin - Ballad of Yemen (Yemen Türküsü) - Prod: Yeni Bir film (TR)/Looks Filmprouktion (DE)-10,000 €
• Heiko Aufdermauer - Fünfte Farbe (The fifth colour) - Prod: City West (DE)/Anka Film (TR) - 10,000 €
For further information, please contact:
Gülin Üstün
gulin.ustun@iksv.org
Tel: 0 212 334 07 26
This year for the first time Turkish -French Co-production Meetings and Panels was organized in alliance with CNC and Unifrance to bring together filmmakers from both countries and create a platform for Turkish filmmakers to present their projects to French producers, distributors and representatives of fund and institutions.
The 10 projects elected from within the applications for the Turkey-France Co-Production Meetings held on Monday, 11 April at Palais de France conducted meetings with producers among whom we may cite French National Cinema Center - CNC's International Co-productions Director Julien Ezanno, Ilann Girard of Arsam International, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes Film Festival award winner film "Üç Maymun”s (Three Monkeys) French co-producer Stephane Parthenay (Pyramide Production) and Cedomir Kolar (A.S.A.P), imprinted in minds as the producer of "Before the Rain” and “No Man’s Land”. Foundations were laid for future co-productions as a result of these meetings.
The Meetings On The Bridge panels conducted on Tuesday, 12 April at the French Cultural Center received a great deal of interest in its sixth year. During the Turkish -French co-productions panel, the co-production terms for the two countries, problems and solutions proposals therefore were discussed over a total of three projects, the production of one of which has been completed and the other two still in production stage. Eric Garandeau (CEO - CNC), Ersan Çongar (CEO – Bir Film) and Ceyda Görür (Digiturk - Acquisitons Manager), were among the speakers of the panel on transition to the digital age in the film industry, the novelties in cinema in France and Turkey brought about by the digital technology, as well as issues concerning New Media were discussed.
Éric Garandeau (CNC –CEO), Zeynel Koç (Deputy General Director of Turkish State Radio and Television – TRT) , Hüseyin Ülger (Ministry of Culture and Tourism - Deputy Director of Copyrights and Cinema), Zeynep Özbatur Atakan (Zeyno Film , Producer - Three Monkeys - Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2008), Stéphane Parthenay (Pyramid Films), Ersan Çongar (Bir Film – CEO) and Ceyda Görür (Digiturk - Acquisitons Manager) were among the speakers of the panels to share their knowledge and experiences on Turkish – France Co-productions, the developments in new media and transition to digital.
In the last panel of the day producers with international experience, Nadir Öperli (Bulut Film) and Serkan Çakarer (+90 Film) talked about one of the most important tools of the industry ; Networking.
There was a great deal of interest from the Turkish filmmakers and the speakers continued their talks with the audience in small groups after the panels.
Click here for the program of the Meetings on the Bridge panels.
Within the framework of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands, an event titled “Focus on Turkish Cinema” has been held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from 26 - 30 September 2012, with the cooperation of Istanbul Film Festival – Meetings on the Bridge and Netherlands Film Festival – Holland Film Meeting.
Photo by Nichon Glerum
The second session of the Turkey – Holland Co-production Panel, the first of which was held on 12 April 2012 during Istanbul Film Festival – Meetings on the Bridge, took place on Thursday, September 27th within the scope of the Holland Film Meeting. The speakers of the panel, which was hosted by Holland Film Meeting Director Signe Zeilich Jensen and Head of Meetings-on-the-Bridge Gülin Üstün, included İstanbul Film Festival Director Azize Tan, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism Specialist Selçuk Yavuzkanat, TRT Television Department Vice Head Tuncay Yürekli, Director and Producer Semih Kaplanoğlu (Kaplan Film), Distributor and Producer Ersan Çongar (Bir Film), Netherlands Film Fund Director Ger Bouma, Director Netherlands Film Producers Association Marjan Van Der Haan, Netherlands Ministry of Culture Senior Advisor Maarten Mulder, Berlin Brandenburg Meidenboard Fund Representative Teresa Hoefert de Turegano, as well as Producer Nadir Öperli (Bulut Film) and Co-producers Titus Kreyenberg (Una Film) and Stienette Bosklopper (Circe Films) of ‘Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz’ (Seyfi Teoman, 2010), one of the co-productions realized between the two countries. In the first section of the panel, co-production conditions and solutions to the existing problems were discussed and information on the Turkish film industry and production support issues was delivered. The event, which was open only to film professionals and representatives of institutions from Turkey and the Netherlands, was followed by one-to-one meetings with the producers of Dutch projects that are in search of co-producers from Turkey.
The opening reception hosted by Istanbul Film Festival – Meetings on the Bridge and Netherlands Film Festival – Holland Film Meeting, held after the panel, entertained all international producers selected for the co-productions market, as well as festival guests.
The directors and the producers of the projects Ana yurdu (Senem Tüzen), Güneye Bakan Duvar (Kutluğ Ataman) and Toz Bezi (Ahu Öztürk), which were selected at the Meetings-on-the-Bridge to participate in Holland Film Meeting co-production meetings conducted their sessions at the co-productions market.
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The guest speaker of the Cinema Militans Lecture event, held within the scope of the Netherlands Film Festival since 1929, was director and producer Semih Kaplanoğlu this year. The panel attracted much interest of the international filmmakers and Kaplanoğlu replied the questions of the audience following the interview which will also be featured in the Sight & Sound magazine. The Egg (Yumurta), Milk (Süt) and Honey (Bal) trilogy by Semih Kaplanoğlu will be shown during the festival, and also to film academy students at a closed screening.
“Focus on Turkish Cinema” event realized through the support of the Government of the Republic of Turkey emerged as a major step forward in the development of the cultural relations between the two countries and heralded new co-productions to follow in the years to come.
The Co-production Meetings and Panel has been realized through the cooperation of the İstanbul International Film Festival - Meetings on the Bridge and the Netherlands Film Festival - Netherlands Film Meetings organized within the scope of the celebrations for 400years of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey.
Aiming at bringing together film industry professionals from the two countries so as to lay the ground for co-productions and support cooperation, these meetings strive for perpetuating industry-wide exchange of knowledge and culture among filmmakers. The activities took place in İstanbul in April 2012 during İstanbul International Film Festival -Meetings on the Bridge and will continue in Utrecht in September 2012 during the Netherlands Film Festival - Holland Film Meetings.
During the Turkey - the Netherlands Co-productions Panel Ger Bouma, head of co-productions, Netherlands Film Fund; Marjan van der Haar, director Netherlands Film Producers Association;Signe Zeilich-Jensen, Head of Holland Film Meeting; and, Nick Muijs distributor of Once Upon A time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011), Cem Mesut Erkul (Ministry of Culture and Tourism Deputy Director of Cinema) and Zeynel Koç (Deputy General Director of Turkish Radio and TV) discussed the conditions of co-productions between the two countries and the new support possibilities for future productions. Ger Bouma, head of co-productions, Netherlands Film Fund made a presentation about the general information on the Dutch film industry at the beginning of the panel and replied the questions from the audience.
In the second half of the panel Yamaç Okur(Bulut Film), Mete Gümürhan (Kaliber Films) and Bero Beyer (Augustus Film), the producers of the three films Our Grand Despair (Seyfi Teoman 2011), Men on the Bridge (AslıÖzge, 2009), Woman and Man (AslıÖzge, 2012) produced or currently at production stage; shared their experience and provided suggestions for improving the existing financing and co-producing conditions.
The Holland Film Meetings conducted within the scope of the Netherlands Film Festival to be organized between 27 September and 1 October 2012 select a different national cinema as its main theme every year. This year, the opening of Holland Film Meetings will be with a reception to be organized with the cooperation of the İstanbul International Film Festival – Meetings on the Bridge, on the occasion of its theme of “A Perspective on the Turkish Cinema”. The directors and the producers of the three projects to be selected from among the applications submitted to Meetings on the Bridge will participate in the co-production meetings and workshops to be conducted for a period of five days within the framework of Holland Film Meetings, one of several aims of which is supporting of independent cinema. International film professionals will discuss the “Recent Developments in the Turkish film industry” at the panel titled the same to be realized within the scope of the festival and questions of participants regarding production conditions will be replied. Also, this year’s guest of the Cinema Militan Lecture panel conducted every year will be the award winning director Semih Kaplanoğlu from Turkey and a selection consisting of his films will be presented, following an interview by Variety to be conducted with him.
The Work in Progress, which is open for feature films and documentaries that have completed 50% of the shooting or in post production in the aiming to support the completion of the films, was held at the first time this year under the scope of the Meetings On The Bridge. 5 films were selected from among the 13 applications received by the selection committee of the Meetings On The Bridge.
Cennetten Kovulmak / Fall From Eden - Director: Ferit Karahan, Producers : Ferit Karahan, Serdar Temel
Devir / The Circle - Director: Derviş Zaim, Producer: Derviş Zaim
Evdeki Yabancılar / Strangers in the House - Director: Dilek Keser, Ulaş Güneş Kacargil Producer: Özkan Yılmaz
Kumun Tadı / Sea Burners - Director: Melisa Önel, Producers: Yamaç Okur, Melisa Önel
Sev Beni / Sense of Sex - Director: Maryna Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er, Producers: Olena Yeshova, Mehmet Bahadır Er
After the evaluation of the project presentations, the international jury, consisting of IFP-(Independent Film Maker Project) the Assistant Director and Programme Manager Amy Dotson, independent producer, director Behrooz Hashemian and Director of The Match Factory Michael Weber , selected Dilek Keser’s project Strangers in the House which received 1000VOLT Post Production Award by 1000VOLT. The award, which consist of the online post-production of the film, was presented by Eda Arıkan, director of 1000VOLT, to Dilek Keser.
“Story editing, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the script consultant.”
Franz Rodenkirchen, one of the most popular script advisors of international markets and workshops, and consultant of many films in festivals, is sharing the tips about script development and evaluation. The directors and scriptwriters of the Yozgat Blues (Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun) and Mavi Dalga (Blue Wave, Zeynep Dadak – Merve Kayan), the award-winning film projects of the Meeting on the Bridge, are talking about the advantages of working with a script advisor.
Michel Reilhac, Executive Director of Arte France Cinéma and Director of Film Acquisitions for ARTE France and transmedia analyst will do a ‘not to be missed’ presentation on the principles of Transmedia and the point of view of television and Arte on Transmedia.
Toni Oyry, the project manager of Shankaboot, the world’s first Arabic language web series and the winner of the International Digital Emmy Award 2011, will be sharing the experience of this new adventure of online platforms and applications, interactivity, audience outreach, distribution/marketing. If you want to develop your projects and business across several media platforms, find new ways to tell your stories, and listen to the leading cross-media experts, this is the place for you! Register before it’s too late for this panel targeting professionals working across different media platforms story architects, games writers, audience engagement designers, writers (feature film, TV, journalists etc) and producers.
Do you have a children’s film project or a script? Then we advise you not to miss the panel organised in collaboration with Holland Eye Film Institute with the participation of the directors, the producers and the scriptwriters of the award-winning Dutch Kids Films and Fleur Winters, Head of Cinekid for Professionals & TV Programming. Open to filmmakers with children’s film projects and professionals the panel is aiming to bring together directors, producers who have children’s film projects to discuss the production and international marketing of children’s films and to get the ball rolling in to production.
Isabelle Fauvel, founder of Initiative Films –one of the first consultancy agencies in Europe dealing with film development issues and all phases of production– will be holding a workshop on project development and pitching. She has held similar workshops with the directors and producers of the selected film projects of Meeting on the Bridge for the last two years and now will be talking about the techniques on how to prepare for pitching, improvising and tailor made tips for individual projects. Don’t be late to register for the workshop open to directors, producers, and scriptwriters who made at least a short film or have experienced a feature film production, and have a project in development.
• In order to participate in this panel after registering please send short (single page) synopsis of your project and short bio in English to onthebridge@iksv.org
Turkish–Dutch co-production meetings and panels take place, in the scope of Istanbul Film Festival– Meetings on the Bridge and Nederland Film Festival – Holland Film Meeting, in Istanbul and Utrecht with participation of Dutch film companies, managers, and producers by reason of the 400th year of establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Holland.
The producers of Men on the Bridge (Aslı Özge, 2009), Our Grand Despair (Seyfi Teoman, 2011) and A Woman and a Man (in production, Aslı Özge) and both countries movie companies and fund managers discuss co-production conditions, existing support funds, the problems during the production and solution offers to lead the way for new co-productions.
The Meetings on the Bridge panels and workshops to take place on April 10-11-12 at Akbank Sanat are open to all professional filmmakers and cinephiles.
Akbank Sanat
İstiklal Cad. No:8 Beyoğlu
T: (212) 252 35 00
To participate at the panels please book in advance.
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