The winner of the 2022 TRT EAVE Scholarship is announced

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The person who is entitled to have the “EAVE TRT Scholarship”, which is given for the second time this year, is a producer named Halil Kardaş. From 51 countries, 186 applications came to have the 2022 EAVE Producers Workshop education. Among them, 56 producers from 36 different countries, were awarded the professional EAVE Scholarships.

EAVE is one of Europe’s leading producer training programs, created by a unique network of over 2200 producers. EAVE has been constantly reviewing its educational activities in order to strengthen European independent productions in order to successfully compete in European and global markets in recent years and to contribute to the sustainability and competitiveness of producers by reinforcing their creative, managerial and financial skills; is preparing new workshop programs.

EAVE, which was founded in 1988 and participated in programs organized for producers in Europe, South America, Arab World, Asia, Africa and Russia by collaborating with a wide network around the world, to create professional training opportunities and to bring together producers from different parts of the world to establish co-production relations. aims to facilitate.

EAVE 2022 Producers Workshop will be held in 3 sessions; Luxembourg (4-11 March), Pärnu, Estonia (10-17 June) and Barcelona, Spain (17-24 October).

For further information: EAVE

TRT Co-production “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Gets 3 Awards from European Film Academy Awards

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TRT Co-production Bosnia and Herzegovina movie “Quo Vadis, Aida?” directed by Jasmila Zbanic received 3 awards in different branches, by the European Film Academy Awards, known as Europe’s Oscars, as “Best Film”, “Best Director” and “Best Actress”.

The 34th European Film Awards ceremony organized by the European Film Academy was held online this year due to the new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The TRT Co-Production “Quo Vadis, Aida?” directed by Jasmila Zbanic, which was awarded the ”Best Film” award”, was also the recipient of the “Best Director” and “Best Actress” awards at the ceremony. The award for ”Best Actor“ was received by Anthony Hopkins for his role ”The Father” in the film.

The Best of Europe, TRT Co-production “Quo Vadis, Aida?”

The award for the Best Film category in which the 5 best films of Europe competed this year was given to the TRT Co-Production “Quo Vadis, Aida?, directed by Jasmila Zbanic”. The film was competing with many films such as Titane; which was awarded Palme d’Or in Cannes Film Festival this year, Compartment No. 6; which was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes, The Father; starring Anthony Hopkins, which won Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2021 Oscar Awards and The Hand of God; directed by the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino who won the Best Film Award twice at the European Film Academy. Director Jasmila Zbanic was connected to the European Film Awards ceremony online from Sarajevo and in her vote of thanks, she said: “This film is dedicated to the women and mothers of Srebrenica. They have found a way to build peace in a devastated country. Women have always had to find a way out of the mess created by men. I hope this award will inspire new female filmmakers and new women’s stories.”

The ”Best Director“ and ”Best Actress” awards goes to “Quo Vadis, Aida?”

Jasmila Zbanic, who directed the TRT co-production film “Quo Vadis, Aida?” won the award in the “Best Director” category, in which the 5 best directors of Europe competed this year. In the category of “Best Actress” where the top 5 female actors competed, the award was given to Jasna Duricic for her role in the film “Quo Vadis, Aida?”. In her speech at the awards ceremony, where she was connected online, Duricic said, “First of all, I would like to thank the crew of the film. I would like to thank my director Jasmila for giving me something very special by opening up a huge space where I could say what I think and feel about the former Yugoslavia. I am receiving this award on behalf of all the victims and mothers”.

“Quo Vadis Aida?” describes one of the bloodiest massacres in recent history

The film, which is a joint production of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Austria, Romania, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France and Norway, focuses on the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. The film is set in the days of the genocide, when tens of thousands of Bosnians, including women and children, were killed by Serb soldiers in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at a United Nations base.

Quo Vadis, Aida?” had its Istanbul premiere in 12 Punto

The director of the film Jasmila Zbanic and the producer Damir Ibrahimovi came to Istanbul in June as guests of 12 Punto, which is held for the 3rd time this year. During the 12 Punto, the Istanbul premiere of the film was held, followed by an interview with Zbanic. The film “Quo Vadis, Aida?”, competed at the Toronto Film Festival right after having its world premiere in September 2020 in the Main Competition section of the Venice Film Festival, the most important festival in the world. After Venice and Toronto, it took part in many important film festivals and won awards. The film received the Best Film Award at the International Competition at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in October 2020 in Turkey.

The nominees for the ”LUX European Audience Award” have been announced: One of the three nominated films is “Quo Vadis, Aida”

During the 34th European Film Awards, the LUX Audience Award nominees were also announced. TRT Co-Production “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is one of the 3 films nominated for the LUX Audience Award, created in cooperation with the European Parliament, the European Film Academy, the European Commission and Europa Cinemas. Viewers will vote their favorite film among the 3 nominated films for the award, which aims to build bridges in Europe.

TRT Co-Production “Klondike” to Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

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The TRT Co-production “Klondike”, directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and co-produced by Mehmet Bahadır Er, will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, one of the most important meeting points of American independent cinema.

TRT Co-production “Klondike” will compete at the Sundance Film Festival, which will be held this year from January 20 to 30, 2022. The Ukraine-Turkey co-produced film will take part in the “International Competition”, the main competition section of the festival, where only ten films from around the world are selected each year.

The Sundance Film Festival, founded in 1981 by the famous actor Robert Redford, is organized annually in January in the US state of Utah by the Sundance Institute. The festival will be held physically this year on January 20-30, 2022.

The film, which begins with the fact that Ira, a pregnant woman living on the Ukraine-Russia border, does not leave her home even though her village is besieged by separatist groups, Ira and her family find themselves at the center of an international plane crash disaster on July 17, 2014. “Klondike”, which was shot in Ukraine by film crews from Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia, Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina in September-October 2020, received the “TRT Minority Co-Production Award” in 12 Punto organized in 2020.

TRT Co-Production ”Between Two Dawns” was Selected as the Best Film in Italy

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The TRT Co-production “Between Two Dawns” won the “Best Film” award at the 39th Turin Film Festival, one of the most important film festivals in Europe.

The TRT Co-Production “Between Two Dawns” directed by Selman Nacar and produced by Burak Cevik and Diloy Gülün won the “Best Film” award at the 39th Turin Film Festival, one of the leading festivals in Italy. In the festival, which was held between November 26-December 4, in Italy, Turin, where 12 films took part in its main competition, the “Best Film” award was for the film “Between Two Dawns”.

“Incredible Directing Skills”

The first feature film of director Selman Nacar, ”Between Two Dawns”, was highly praised by the festival jury. As a justification for awarding the film, the jury expressed their opinion by saying: “A film that makes you laugh, feel and surprise, which manages to tell a convincing story with its outstanding writing and directing skills. It is a mature film that is directed wisely, with dignity and reveals a new great talent.”.

“Festival Journey Goes On”

The film, shot in four weeks in Uşak in July and August of 2019, is about the moral predicament that will affect the dreams, family and wife of the injured worker after a worker was injured in Kadir’s factory. The film will be screened at the 21st Eskişehir Film Festival and the 10th Malatya Film Festival in the coming days.

Awards from the Most Important Film Festivals Around the World

The film “Between Two Dawns” had previously returned with awards from the 58th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, the 9th Bosphorus Film Festival, the 17th Free Zone Film Festival and the 39th Turin Film Festival. It was screened at the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival, the 45th Sao Paolo Mostra Film Festival, the 32nd Ankara Film Festival, the 22nd Arras Film Festival, the 7th Lima Semana Del Cine Film Festival and the 26th Rover Festival.