2020 Sundance Film Festival Awards Found Their Owners

The Sundance Film Festival awards held between January 23 and February 2 this year found their owners. In American cinema “Minari” and in the world cinema “Yalda” won The Grand Jury Prize.

The production that came to the fore in the American cinema department was the “Minari” by Lee Isaac Chung. Telling the story of a Korean family who moved from Los Angeles to Arkansas to farm in the 80s, the film won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. In the world cinema, Iranian “Yalda” was deemed worthy to the Grand Jury Prize. Mexican production “Sin Señas Particulares” was another production drawing attention in this category by winning both the Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize (Script).

It was also announced that Tabitha Jackson would take John Cooper’s place as the new director of the Sundance Film Festival during the ceremony where the awards found their owners. Tabitha Jackson had been dealing with the Documentary Film program of the Sundance Institute.

The fact that digital platforms such as Netflix and Amazon compete with large studios to get the rights of remarkable movies has also led to the signing of important agreements at the Sundance Film Festival this year. While Neon and Hulu broke a new record by paying $17.5 million to purchase the rights of “Palm Springs”, which was one of the most remarkable films of the festival, the new films such as “The Night House” and “Uncle Frank” were also subjected to significant agreements that were worth more than 10 million dollars.

2020 Sundance Film Festival Awards

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Grand Jury Award

Minari

Audience Award

Minari

Director Award

Radha Blank – The 40-Year-Old Version

Waldo Salt Script Award

Edson Oda – Nine Days

Special Jury Award (Player Community)

Charm City Kings

Special Jury Award (Auteur)

Josephine Decker – Shirley

Special Jury Award (Neorealism)

Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

 

US-Documentary

Grand Jury Award

Boys State

Audience Award

Crip Camp

Director Award

Garrett Bradley – Time

Special Jury Award (Breakthrough Filmmaker)

Arthur Jones – Feels Good Man

Special Jury Award (Social Impact)

Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, Eli Despres – The Fight

Special Jury Award (Editing)

Tyler H. Walk – Welcome to Chechnya

Special Jury Award (Innovation in Non-Fictional Storytelling)

Kirsten Johnson – Dick Johnson Is Dead

World Cinema-Drama

Grand Jury Award

Yalda

Audience Award

Sin Señas Particulares

Director Award

Maïmouna Doucouré – Mignonnes

Special Jury Award (Actor Performance)

Ben Whishaw – Surge

Special Jury Award (Visionary Filmmaker)

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese – This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Special Jury Award (Script)

Fernanda Valadez & Astrid Rondero – Sin Señas Particulares

World Cinema-Documentary

Grand Jury Prize

Epicentro

Audience Award

The Reason I Jump

Director Award

Iryna Tsilyk – The Earth is Blue as an Orange

Special Jury Award (Creative Storytelling)

Benjamin Ree – The Painter and the Thief

Special Jury Award (Image Director)

Micrea Topoleanu, Radu Ciorniciuc – Acasa, My Home

Special Jury Award (Editing)

Mila Aung Thwin, Sam Soko, Ryan Mullins – Softie

Short Film

Grand Jury Award

So What If The Goats Die

Director Award

Michael Arcos – Valerio’s Day Out

Jury Award (International-Fiction)

The Devil’s Harmony

Jury Award (USA-Fiction)

Ship: A Visual Poem

Jury Award (Non-Fiction)

John Was Trying to Contact Aliens

Jury Award (Animation)

Dcera

Actor Award

Sadaf Asgari – Exam

Other Awards

NEXT Audience Award

I Carry You With Me

NEXT Innovative Award

I Carry You With Me

Alfred P. Sloan Feature-Length Film Fiction Award

Tesla

Sundance Institute NHK Award

Kirsten Tan – Higher

73rd BAFTA Awards Found Their Owners

2020 BAFTA Awards found their owners. Sam Mendes’s 1917 movie was awarded in 7 categories, including Best Film and Best Director.

BAFTA Awards, distributed by the British Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (BAFTA), found their owners with an award ceremony last night.

Being the biggest favourite of Oscars, the movie of 1917 marked the 73rd BAFTA Awards. Directed by Sam Mendes, 1917 received 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best British Film and Best Director.

Renée Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, and Adam Driver were outstanding figures in acting awards.

WINNERS:

Best Picture

1917
The Irishman
Joker
One Upon a Time… In Hollywood
Parasite

Best British Picture

1917
Bait
For Sama
Rocketman
Sorry We Missed You
The Two Popes

Best Picture in Foreign Language

The Farewell
For Sama
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Best Documentary

American Factory
Apollo 11
Diego Maradona
For Sama
The Great Hack

Best Animation Picture

Frozen 2
Klaus
A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Toy Story 4

Best Director

1917 – Sam Mendes
The Irishman – Martin Scorsese
Joker – Todd Phillips
Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Bong Joon-Ho

Best Original Screenplay

Booksmart – Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
Knives Out – Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-Ho

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Irishman – Steven Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
Little Women – Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes – Anthony Mccarten

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell
Renée Zellweger – Judy

Best Actor

Leonardo Dicaprio – Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Taron Egerton – Rocketman
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes

Best Supporting Actress

Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Margot Robbie – Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

Best Supporting Actor

Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Brad Pitt – Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

BAFTA Rising Star Award

Awkwafina
Jack Lowden
Kaitlyn Dever
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Micheal Ward

Best Soundtrack

1917 – Thomas Newman
Jojo Rabbit – Michael Giacchino
Joker – Hildur Guđnadóttir
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams

Best Cinematography

1917 – Roger Deakins
The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
Joker – Lawrence Sher
Ford v Ferrari – Phedon Papamichael
The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke

Best Newcomer British Screenwriter, Director or Producer

Mark Jenkin (Senarist/Yönetmen), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Yapımcı) – Bait
Waad al-Kateab (Yönetmen/Yapımcı), Edward Watts (Yönetmen) – For Sama
Alex Holmes (Yönetmen) – Maiden
Harry Wootliff (Senarist/Yönetmen) – Only You
Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Senarist/Yönetmen) – Retablo

Best Editing

The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles
Joker – Jeff Groth
Ford v Ferrari – Andrew Buckland, Michael Mccusker
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood – Fred Raskin

Best Production Design

1917
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

Best Costume Design

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Judy
Little Women
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

Best Hair and Makeup

1917
Bombshell
Joker
Judy
Rocketman

Best Sound

1917
Joker
Ford v Ferrar
Rocketman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best Visual Effects

1917
Avengers: Endgame
The Irishman
The Lion King
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best British Short Animation

Grandad Was A Romantic
In Her Boots
The Magic Boat

Best British Short Film

Azaar
Goldfish
Kamali
Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl)
The Trap

Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop Projects are Announced

Meetings on the Bridge continues to gather producers, the director, and screenwriters from Turkey and neighbouring countries with international film professionals.

Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) within the scope of the Istanbul Film Festival, Meetings on the Bridge will take place between 13-17 April with the support of Anadolu Efes. Fiction feature film workshops, documentary projects and presentations of the films in post-production stage from Turkey and neighbouring countries will be presented to international cinema professionals in the Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop, Work in Progress, and Neighbours workshops.

In the 15th year of Meetings on the Bridge, a new award will be added to the supports given to the filmmakers in the workshops organized with the contributions of TRTTRT Special Award amounting 50,000 TL, will start to be given to a project from Turkey at the TRT Film Development Workshop.

This year, 112 applications have been received from Turkey for Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop. The applications have been evaluated by the advisory and reading board; 10 fiction and 1 documentary film projects have been selected to attend to the workshop. International presentations of the projects will take place in Algeria on April 15-16.

Being one of the previous years’ participants of the Meeting on the Bridge, Ali Vatansever, who opened his first film “Saf” at the Toronto International Film Festival, makes his first presentation of his project “Agoni” at the Film Development Workshop this year. Salih Demir, director of “Cano” is rejoining Meetings on the Bridge with his new project “The Treasure” and the experienced producer, Yamaç Okur, is joining the workshop with Sinan Öztürk, who is the director of “Çukur” and the adaptation of Alper Canıgüz’s novel “Kan ve Gül”. Melisa Önel, who made the premiere of her first film “Kumun Tadı” at Berlin Film Festival is making the presentation of her new project “Aniden”, which she developed with Feride Çiçekoğlu. Emre Akay, who participated to Meeting on the Bridge with ‘Av’, which is one of the first films of genre cinema, is presenting his new project “Ebedi Alev”. Besides experienced directors, the young directors, Ziya Demirel, Ozan Yoleri, Emre Sert, and Gözde Yetişkin, who took part in many festivals are joining the workshop, too. Meetings on the Bridge also presents documentary projects in its selection every year. This year’s documentary project is Ali Özkul’s “O Yaratıklardan Biri”, which will be the production of Ceylan Özgün Özçelik, noted for triology of “Kaygı ve Cadı.”

Projects Selected for the Film Development Workshop

Agoni (dir. Ali Vatansever, prod. Selin Vatansever Tezcan, Oya Özden – Terminal Film)

Aniden (dir. Melisa Önel, prod. Alara Hamamcıoğlu – Vigo Film)

Ebedi Alev (dir. Emre Akay, prod. Ali özgür Baltacı – Emre Akay Film)

Güzel Bir Gece (dir. Ozan Yoleri, prod. Arda Çiltepe, Ilgın Coşar – Vigo Film)

Hazine (dir. Salih Demir, prod. Çekdar Erkıran – Layen Film)

İki Gözlüler (dir. Ziya Demirel, prod. Anna Maria Aslanoğlu – İstos Film)

Kan and Gül (dir. Sinan Öztürk, prod. Yamaç Okur – Ay Yapım)

O Yaratıklardan Biri (dir. Ali Özkul, prod. Ceylan özgün Özçelik – EHY Film Prodüksiyon)

Orada Mısın? (dir. Aysim Türkmen, prod. Nesra Gürbüz – Monomit Film)

Pastoral (dir. Michael Önder, prod. Joseph Erçelik Amado – Bluff Film)

Rahmet (dir. Emre Sert, Gözde Yetişkin prod. Suzan Güverte, Şebnem Kitiş – Ptot Film, Güverte Film, Emre & Gözde Film)

Project teams will make script, production, pitching, marketing and social media trainings with internationally experienced filmmakers and trainers in March.

The owners of the Film Development Workshop awards will be determined after the negotiations with international jury.

Film Development Workshop Awards:

TRT Special Award – 50.000 TL

Meetings on the Bridge Award – 30.000 TL

CNC Award – 8000 Euro

Melodika Sound Award

Mediterranean Film Institute (MFI) Script Workshop Award

Genius Park Visual Effects Award

Transilvania Pitch Stop Award

SE-YAP Award

Work in Progress Applications Continue

Work in Progress applications will continue until Wednesday, February 19, where international presentations of fiction feature films and documentaries will be made in the post-production stage.

The directors and producers of the films selected for the workshop will only make open presentations to distributors, festival or financiers and media representatives. The films to be selected at the end of the workshop will be awarded 30.000 TL Anadolu Efes Award, Color Up Post-production Award, Another Cinema Award, Daire Creative Visual Design Award.

Neighbours Platform

When the NEIGHBORS platform, which was launched in 2015 to encourage new international collaborations and to accelerate relations with filmmakers from neighbouring countries, develops shared stories, it also aims to create a common ground to enable filmmakers and theatre institutions work together in Turkey and its neighbours. In Neighbours platform, where the presentation of film projects from Turkey’s neighbouring countries are made, a project will receive the Postbıyık Audio Post-Production Award, which includes sound post-production, and a project will also be evaluated for the 8000 Euro CNC Award, which will be given for the 9th time this year.

Finalists of DenizBank ‘First Movie’ Competition are Announced

In the “First Movie” section of the “DenizBank First Scenario First Film Competition”, the fourth of which was organized this year in cooperation with TÜRSAK, 10 finalists were determined.

In collaboration with DenizBank and TÜRSAK Foundation, 10 movies that were finalized in the “First Movie” section of the 4th DenizBank First Scenario First Movie Competition, which aims to encourage the development of the Turkish cinema industry, the production of qualified cinema works and the young filmmakers making their first films within the year.

Among the films that made it to the finals, there are 2 films co-produced by TRT, including “Dilsiz” by Murat Pay and “Kapan” by Seyid Çolak.

In the contest where intense participation takes place; Abdurrahman Öner’s “Aydede”, Hakan Cigaoğlu’s “Bebek Geliyorum Demez”, Mustafa Karadeniz’s “Çınar”, Serhat Karaaslan’s “Görülmüştür”, Sefa Öztürk’s “Güven”, Çiğdem Bozali and Elif Akarsu Polat’s “Kader Postası”, Mustafa H. Öztürk’s “Kuklalı Köşk” and Zeynep Güzel’s “Yaz Kış Demeden” are also among the finalists.

Among the 10 films that made it to the finals, the WINNER of the competition will be determined by the main jury including the Chairman of the Fono Film Board, the founding partner of TAFF Pictures and the Vice President of the TÜRSAK Foundation, Cemal Okan, and the Vice President of CJ Entertainment Ferhat Aslan, Harika Uygur as the winner of the “European Cast Director” award from the Locarno Film Festival, a member of the International Cast Directors Association (ICDN) affiliated with European Film Promotion (EFP), Kanal D General Manager Murat Saygı and Bahçeşehir University Communication Faculty Cinema and Television Department Chair Prof. Dr. Nilay Ulusoy.

The Best First Film to be determined after the evaluation by the jury will be announced at the award ceremony and will receive the DenizBank Special Award worth 25.000 TL.

The contest developments and detailed information can be accessed from the website of the event, https://ilksenaryo.tursak.org.tr and from the social media accounts of TÜRSAK Foundation.

Films to Compete at the 70th Berlin Film Festival are Announced

The films that will compete at the 70th Berlin Film Festival between February 20 and March 1 have been announced.

Berlin Film Festival, one of the leading film festivals in Europe, is getting ready to meet with cinema lovers for the 70th time between February 20 and March 1 this year.

This year, Jeremy Irons, who is 71-year-old Oscar-winning film and theatre actor, will chair the festival. My Salinger Year directed by Philippe Falardeau, who is known for its Monsiuer,  Lazhar and starred by Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley will open the 70th Berlin Film Festival.

The festival committee announced the films that will take place at the festival this year in a press release yesterday. Carlo Chatrian, who took the director of the festival over from Dieter Kosslick, said that the films they chose revealed “the dark side of the people”. In the introduction of the program, it was stated that if in the selected films “dark colors outweigh, the reason for this is not to spread fear, but to want people to open their eyes”. Chatrian emphasized that their only criteria when choosing films for the main competition was “artistic quality”.

British actress Helene Mirren was granted the Honorary Golden Bear award this year. A selection of the films played by Helene Mirren will be shown in the Hommage section.

 

No film from Turkey

No Turkish films will be featured this year at the Berlin Film Festival. In addition, Turkish films are not featured in other important parts of the festival such as Forum and Panorama.

Michael Stütz, director of the Panorama section, which includes examples from the world cinema, said that while they were preparing the program, they also went to Istanbul and watched many movies. Speaking to DW Turkish, Stütz mentioned that “it is a privilege and an advantage to see a significant section of this year’s films shot in Turkey in three days “. Stütz said that they had “discussed up to the last minute” for the inclusion of a few movies but they could not find the “right” movie to be included in the program.

Competition Films for the Golden Bear Award

Berlin Alexanderplatz – Burhan Qurbani

DAU. Natasha – Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel

Domangchin yeoja (The Woman Who Ran) – Hong Sangsoo

Effacer l’historique (Delete History) – Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern

El prófugo (The Intruder) – Natalia Meta

Favolacce (Bad Tales) – Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo

First Cow – Kelly Reichardt

Irradiés (Irradiated) – Rithy Panh

Le sel des larmes (The Salt of Tears) – Philippe Garrel

Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Eliza Hittman

Rizi (Days) – Tsai Ming-Liang

The Roads Not Taken – Sally Potter

Schwesterlein (My Little Sister) – Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond

Sheytan vojud nadarad (There Is No Evil) – Mohammad Rasoulof

Siberia – Abel Ferrara

Todos os mortos (All the Dead Ones) – Caetano Gotardo, Marco Dutra

Undine – Christian Petzold

Volevo nascondermi (Hidden Away) – Giorgio Diritti

TRT Co-Production “Uzun Zaman Önce” Returns from Dublin with an Award

“Long Time Ago”, written and directed by Cihan Sağlam, returned with an award from the 8th Silk Road International Film Festival, where it made his international premiere.

In the International Feature Film Competition of the film festival held in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, Onur Dikmen, the lead actor of “Long Time Ago”, has been granted the Award for Best Actor. “Long Time Ago”, which was also granted the “Best Actress” award in Boğaziçi Film Festival and “Best Supporting Actress” award in the International Adana Altın Koza Film Festival last year, is expected to release in Turkey in May 2020.

The Story of Losing Innocence

“Long Time Ago”, produced by Cenk Özçelik and Cihan Sağlam, is about two brothers who live in the shadow of their authoritarian father who has a quarry in an Anatolian town where they were born and raised and what happened after the murder they were accomplices. Starring Onur Dikmen, Orçin, Dengiz and Reha Özcan, the drama-thriller film tries to shed light on the roots of crime and penance, the dead ends of the father and son relationship, and the loveless history of relationships of women and men through the family institution and it tells the story of losing innocence based on the theme of “conscience”.

Applications to 12 Punto TRT Script Days has Started

Applications for 12 Punto TRT Script Days, organized by TRT and to be held for the second time this year, will be made between January 21 and March 12.

Special TRT Co-Production Prizewhich will be given for the first time this year, will be given to the new film project of Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

12 Punto TRT Script Days, which brought a new breath to the film industry, contributes to the development of the projects by supporting the filmmakers at the stage of the script and it also helps them find international co-producers by opening some space for festival circulation.

After the applications are completed, the pre-jury including independent and professional filmmakers will evaluate the projects and decide on 12 finalists.

The teams of the finalists will take courses from international trainers in the script development workshop and present their projects to the international jury including important figures of world cinema.

4 projects won the 12 Punto TRT Script Days Co-Production Prize and 4 projects won the 12 Punto TRT Script Days Prebuy Prize will be determined by the votes of the international jury.

The awards of the 8 winner projects will be given to the owners at the 12 Punto TRT Script Days closing ceremony.

Special TRT Co-Production Prize to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s New Film Project

From this year, one of the masters of Turkish cinema will be given the “Special TRT Co-Production Prize”.

The first Special TRT Co-Production Prize will be given to Turkey’s one of the most important directors Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his new film project “Kuru Otlar Üstüne”.

12 Punto Exceeds Country Borders

12 Punto exceeds the borders of the country and it also supports international projects with Turkish partners. Starting this year, international projects with Turkish co-producers will be able to apply for 12 Punto.

Support for Short Films with 12 Point and TRT 2 Collaboration

Short film project applications will also be accepted for the first time this year at 12 Punto TRT Script Days. 12 of the short film projects in the script stage will be awarded the “TRT 2 Short Film Production Prize” by TRT 2. The winners of the award-winning short film projects will attend the scenario development workshops, , and they will be broadcast on TRT 2 after the shooting is completed.

Last year Oscar President was on TRT Jury

Last year, 119 feature film projects applied to 12 Punto.

The international jury, which was chaired by Oscar President John Bailey, and Marie-Pierre Vallé from Wild Bunch, one of the largest film distribution companies in the world, and Amra Bakšić Čamo, one of the Sarajevo Film Festival executives, awarded 4 projects out of 12 to theTRT Co-Production Prize4 of them to the TRT Preliminary Purchase Prize.

This year, the international jury of the 12 Punto TRT Script Days will feature important names of the world cinema, too.

For details and application about 12 Punto TRT Script Dayswww.trt12punto.com.

2020 SAG Awards Found Their Owners

The 26th SAG Awards found their owners at a ceremony held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

“Parasite” in the field of cinema, “Crown” in the field of drama and in the field of comedy series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” received the “Best Cast” awards, Joaquin Phoenix with “Joker” and Laura Dern with “Marriage Story” won the “Best Actor/Actress Awards”. Robert De Niro was honoured with the “Lifetime Achievement Award”.

MOVIE

Best Cast

Parasite (Chang Hyae-jin, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Jung Hyeon-jun, Jung Ziso, Lee Jung-eun, Lee Sun-kyun, Park Myung-hoon, Park So-dam, Song Kang-ho)

Best Actress

Renée Zellweger, Judy

The Best Actor

Joaquin Phoenix, Joker

Best Supporting Actress

Laura Dern, Marriage Story

Best Supporting Actor

Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best TV Series (Drama)

The Crown (Marion Bailey, Helen Bonham Carter, Olivia Colman, Charles Dance, Ben Daniels, Erin Doherty, Charles Edwards, Tobias Menzies, Josh O’Connor, Sam Phillips, David Rintoul, Jason Watkins)

Best Actress (Drama Series)

Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show

Best Actor (Drama Series)

Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones

TELEVISION

Best TV Series

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Caroline Aaron, Alex Borstein, Rachel Brosnahan, Marin Hinkle, Stephanie Hsu, Joel Johnstone, Jane Lynch, Leroy McClain, Kevin Pollak, Tony Shalhoub, Matilda Szydagis, Brian Tarantina, Michael Zegen)

Best Actress (Comedy Series)

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag

Best Actor (Comedy Series)

Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Best Actor (TV Movie or Miniseries)

Sam Rockwell, Fosse / Verdon

Best Actress (TV Movie or Miniseries)

Michelle Williams, Fosse / Verdon

Best Action Performance (Movie)

Avengers: Endgame

Best Action Performance (Comedy or Drama)

Game Of Thrones

Preparations for Cappadocia Film Festival Has Started

Preparations for the first Cappadocia Film Festival, which is organized for the first time this year, has been started by Nevşehir Municipality.

According to the statement made by the festival management, the festival will bring together many outstanding films from world cinema and filmmakers with cinema lovers.

The festival, which aims to make Cappadocia, being an important tourism center of Turkey, one of the attraction centers of the cinema sector, will be held between  May 29 – June 3.

The mayor of Nevşehir, Rasim Arı stated that the Cappadocia Film Festival will contribute to the national cinema and expressed his sincere belief that the people of Nevsehir, who value culture and art, will show great interest in the festival.

Mr.Arı added that the festival, where they will share its details in a very short time, will be very suitable for Nevşehir and will have a special importance for art lovers, students, and tourists in the region.

Festival Director Suat Köçer stated that they started an intensive working process for the festival and evaluated that the festival will bring a new and strong breath to the Turkish cinema sector.

Köçer, pointing out that they are happy to bring the excitement of cinema to Cappadocia noticed that they will bring together outstanding films and valuable guests from all over Turkey and the world with cinema lovers from Nevşehir.

Jury President of 77th Venice Film Festival is Announced

Cate Blanchett will chair the Venice Film Festival that will be held on September 2-12.

Venice Film Festival Director Alberto Barbera announced that Cate Blanchett will be the president of the jury of the festival this year.

Blanchett will be at the head of the jury evaluating the films of the 77th Venice Film Festival and will choose who will receive the Golden Lion awards.

Cate Blanchett expressed her thoughts about the festival with the following words: “Every year I look expectantly to the selection at Venice and every year it is surprising and distinct. Venice is one of the most atmospheric film festivals in the world – a celebration of the provocative and inspirational medium that is cinema in all its forms. It is a privilege and a pleasure to be this year’s jury president.”

Lucrecia Martel, Argentinian director of “Zama”, chaired the Venice Film Festival last year. Also, the Joker, which has been nominated for the Academy this year, won the Best Film award.