Antalya Film Forum Finalists Announced
The finalists of the Antalya Film Forum, a co-production and project development platform within the scope of the 61st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, have been announced. This year, the Forum will feature a total of 19 projects in 5 categories.
The projects to be evaluated at the Antalya Film Forum (AFF), which was launched to bring new works to our cinema, have been announced. AFF, which will be held between October 7-9 within the scope of the 61st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, will feature a total of 19 projects selected from 119 applications in different categories this year.
AFF, Turkey's largest sectoral support platform, will bring together directors, producers and screenwriters with international film professionals and will give a total of 500 thousand TL in prize money this year.
The 2024 AFF Finalists are:
Feature Film Pitching Platform
- From the Wand (Director: Korhan Günay, Producer: Ali Nuri Türkoğlu)
- Forty Days and Forty Nights (Director: İlyas Soner Yıldırım, Producer: Emir Melek)
- Dead Bee's Sting (Director: Aydın Orak, Producer: Murat Hasarı)
- Three Girls' Story (Director: Nursen Çetin Köreken, Producer: Ümit Köreken)
Feature Film "Work - in - Progress" Platform
- About a Mother (Director: Büşra Bülbül, Producer: Betül Demir)
- Günyüzü (Director: Banu Sıvacı, Producer: Yusuf Aslanyürek - Orkun Huylu)
- Lo - Fi (Director: Alican Durbaş, Producer: İpek Erden)
- Memento Non Mori (Director: Şeyhmus Altun, Producer: Written by Fevziye Hazal)
Sümer Tilmaç Antalya Screenplay Support Fund “Pitching” Platform
- Don’t (Screenwriter: Mustafa Haktanır)
- A Happy Home (Screenwriter: Nazlı Elif Durlu)
- A Wild Bear Hugging (Screenwriter: Burcu Uğuz)
Series/Short Series “Pitching” Finalists Platform
- Asya Otel (Director: Volga Sorgu Tekinoğlu, Producer: Mustafa Üstündağ)
- Keko (Director: Salih Toprak, Producer: Sedat Tanrıkolu)
- The Rejected Exhibition (Director: Hakan Yaraman, Producer: Gülce Öksüz Çekin)
- Siyah ve Beyaz (Director: Şahin Altuğ, Producer: Caner Güler)
Documentary Film Work – in – Progress Platform
- 32 Metre (Director: Morteza Atabaki, Producer: Murat Oneş)
- This is a Stripping Story (Director: Aslı Akdağ, Producer: Bilal Bağcı Yunus Emre Tolan)
- Between Two Spaces (Director: Letisya Tapan, Producer: Dilek Aydın)
- The Stranger (Director: Nesli Özalp, Producer: Evrim İnci)
This year, the AFF Feature Film ‘Pitching’ Platform Jury consists of Director Yunus Ozan Korkut and producers Mariette Rissenbeek and Sena Argün. The Feature Film Work-in-Progress Platform Jury includes art director Natali Yeres, director of photography Andreas Sinanos and producer Daniel Vadocky.
The Documentary Film Work-in-Progress Platform Jury consists of Producer Sevinç Baloğlu, BLU TV Documentary Department Manager and Producer Dilan Karadağ and Documentary Producer-Director Gökhan Tarkan Karaman, while the Sümer Tilmaç Antalya Screenplay Support Fund Pitching Platform Jury includes Director Hüseyin Karabey, Screenwriter-Author Feride Çiçekoğlu and Director Melisa Üneri.
The names of the Forum’s Series/Short Series Pitching Platform Jury are; Producer Arya Su Altıoklar, GAIN TV Dramas and Production Coordinator Gizem Elgün and Producer Giacomo Durzi.