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12 Punto 2022 Submissions are Now Open

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Submissions for “12 Punto 2022”, which will be held for the 4th time this year by the TRT Directorate of Cinema, started today. Submissions to 12 Punto, Turkey’s largest script development and co-production platform, which is eagerly awaited by everyone interested in cinema, can be made at www.trt12punto.com until 12 February 2022.

Submissions for “12 Punto 2022”, which is the first and only project for the cinema industry in Turkey, have started. The event, which will be held for the 4th time by TRT, will bring together the leading names of Turkish and world cinema this year.

Feature and short film projects will be accepted.

Feature and short film project submissions for “12 Punto 2022” will continue until 23:59 on Saturday, February 12, 2022. Submissions will only be made through the submission form on www.trt12punto.com. After the evaluation of the feature projects by the pre-jury, the 12 finalist projects will be announced on April 12, 2022.

Among the 12 finalists selected by the international jury in the feature film category, TRT Co-Production Award will be given to 3 projects, TRT Pre-Purchase Award to 3 projects and TRT Project Development Award (50,000 TL) to 6 projects.

TRT Short Film Production Award will be given to 12 projects among the short film project submissions. Award-winning project owners will be announced on April 12. In June, script development workshops will be held. The completed short films will be broadcast on TRT 2.

International co-productions in which Turkish producers are partners with low shares (minority co-productions) will also be able to apply for 12 Punto until February 12, 2022. The TRT International Co-Production Award paves the way for Turkish cinema to gain an international identity.

Last year, nearly 500 submissions for long and short feature projects were made.

In 2021, international jury members were Oscar Nominee director of TRT Co-production Quo Vadis Aida, director Jasmila Zbanic, producer of Ken Loach’s films Rebecca O’Brien, Asia Pacific Film Awards President Tracey Vieira, Berlin Film Festival Co-production Market Director Martina Bleis and Sata Cissokho, Purchasing Director of Memento, one of the sales agencies. Last year, nearly 500 feature and short film project submissions were made in 12 Punto.

How does the submission process work for the feature projects in 12 Punto?

An independent pre-jury consisting of 5 members will select the 12 finalist projects among the submissions. The teams of the projects which made it to the finals will hold meetings with a world-renowned script and marketing consultants during the 12 Punto week which will be held in June. Then, they will present their projects to the international jury, which include the most important names of the international cinema industry.

Projects to be applied for 12 Punto must meet the submission requirements for “Feature film projects with a Turkish producer as the main producer”, “International feature film projects with a low share partner of a Turkish producer” and “Short film projects”. Submissions for feature film projects must be made by a production company, and there is no such requirement in the short film category.

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Submissions for 12 Punto TRT Script Days Are Open Now!

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Submissions for “12 Punto TRT Script Days”, which will be organized for the third time this year by TRT, started today. For anyone interested in the cinema, Turkey’s biggest script development and co-production platform’s event submissions can be made from www.trt12punto.com address until February 12, 2021.

Submissions started for “12 Punto TRT Script Days 2021”, the first and only project of its kind made for the cinema industry in Turkey, The event, which will be held for the third time by TRT, will bring together the leading names of world and Turkish cinema this year.

Feature and short film projects will be accepted.

Feature and short film project submissions to the “12 Punto TRT Script Days” can be made between January 12 and February 12, 2021. Submissions will only be made through the submission form on www.trt12punto.com.

Among the 12 finalists selected by the international jury in the feature film category, 4 projects will be awarded TRT Co-Production Award, and 4 projects will be awarded TRT Pre-Buy Award.

Among the short film project applications, 12 projects will be awarded TRT 2 Short Film Production Awards. With the completion of the shootings, the films will broadcast on TRT 2. 12 feature films and 12 short films selected as a result of the evaluation of the pre-jury members will be announced on April 12.

International co-productions, in which Turkish producers have small shares, will also be able to apply to the event until February 12, 2021. With the “TRT International Co-Production Award”, which was given for the first time last year, it will also contribute to the increase in the recognition of Turkish cinema in the international arena.

This year’s “Special TRT Co-Production Award” was given to director Semih Kaplanoğlu.

Within the scope of the event, this year’s winner of the “Special TRT Co-Production Award”, which is given to a master of Turkish cinema every year, was Semih Kaplanoğlu’s new film project “Bağlılık Fikret”. “Bağlılık Fikret” It tells the story of a theater director in his 40s who want to import Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “A Mind at Peace” novel, by travelling between the 1930s and the present day Turkey.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the “Special TRT Co-Production Award”, which was given for the first time last year, with his latest project “On Barren Weeds”.

Nearly 600 feature and short project applications were made last year.

Among the international jury members of the event held in 2020 were President of the European Film Academy, General Manager of Cannes Cinefondation, CEO of Doha Film Institute, Director of Films Boutique and President of Sarajevo Film Festival Industry. The president of the international jury of 12 Punto, which was held for the first time in 2019, was Oscar President John Bailey. Despite the pandemic conditions, nearly 600 feature and short film project submissions were made to the event in 2020, which was also held with the participation of international brands.