Independent Cinema Panel With Tolda Karaçelik And Ümit Ünal At The Golden Orange Cinema Workshop
A panel on independent cinema will be held at the Cinema Workshop within the scope of the 61st Antalya International Golden Orange Film Festival with the participation of directors Tolga Karaçelik and Ümit Ünal.
Within the scope of the 61st Antalya International Golden Orange Film Festival, a panel titled "Independent Cinema in Turkey in the Context of Narrative and Discourse Structure" will be held on October 11th at the "Cinema Workshop", which will discuss cinema from A to Z with all parties in the sector. The guests of the panel, moderated by the workshop coordinator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Perihan Taş Öz, will be two valuable names of our cinema; directors Tolga Karaçelik and Ümit Ünal.
One of the cornerstones of Turkish cinema, Ümit Ünal, began his career as a screenwriter and presented our cinema with a legend: “Teyzem” (My Aunt), directed by Halit Refiğ in 1986. He had his signature as a screenwriter in many films written by master directors. Kartal Tibet’s “Milyarder” (1986), Atıf Yılmaz’s “Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen” (1987) and “Arkadaşım Şeytan” (1988), Tunç Başaran’s “Piano Piano Bacaksız” (1989), Sinan Çetin’s “Berlin in Berlin” (1992), Şerif Gören’s “Amerikan” (1993) are some of these. Ünal, who took the director’s seat in 2001 with “9”, became one of the five directors of “Anlat İstanbul” in 2004. His 2007 film “Ara” was followed by “Gölgesizler” (The Shadowless) a year later. Ünal, who shot “Pomegranate” after “Kaptan Feza” (2009) and “Ses” (2010), won the Jury Special Award at the 48th Antalya International Film Festival with this film. His 2017 film “Sofra Sırları” won the Kemal Sunal Audience Award at the Malatya Film Festival, while his 2019 film “Aşk, Büyü vs” (Love, Magic vs), which he wrote and directed, won the Dr. Avni Tolunay Jury Special Award, the Cinema Writers Association (SİYAD) Award and the Best Actress Award at the 56th Antalya International Golden Orange Film Festival. The film, which also won the Best Screenplay and Best Film awards at the Istanbul Film Festival, was also chosen as the best of SİYAD that year. The shooting of the director’s latest film, “Evcilik” (Evcilik), was also completed this year.
Tolga Karaçelik’s 2010 film “Toll Booth Officer” attracted attention with its unique style, and the film won the Best First Film, Best Actor and Best Cinematographer awards at the 47th Antalya International Golden Orange Film Festival. The director, who proved his competence with “Ivy” in 2013, returned with four awards from the 52nd Antalya International Golden Orange Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film. His 2018 film “Butterflies”, like its predecessors, was also appreciated and won many awards at both Turkish and international festivals, while the director most recently sat in the director’s chair for “Yakamoz S-245,” a post-apocalyptic drama adaptation for Netflix.
Cinema Workshop will evaluate every topic with 9 sessions
The International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival brings together professional organizations, associations, unions and cinema academics in order to contribute to the solution of current problems in cinema. Participants who will meet at the "Cinema Workshop" within the scope of the festival will address current problems of cinema in Turkey under different headings.
In the Cinema Workshop to be held on October 10-12 within the scope of the festival, fundamental problems regarding the creation, production and distribution processes of cinema films will be discussed in a total of nine sessions. Working groups consisting of academics and professionals, associations, foundations, professional unions, unions and relevant state institutions representatives will evaluate the relevant headings in sessions that will last three hours each and sign final declarations. In addition to the sessions, the workshop will also feature two panels, and the following topics will be covered: Copyrights, copying fees, conditions on film and series sets, state support, overcoming production problems, academic and vocational education problems, film festivals, movie theaters, the culture of watching in cinema, fundamental problems in the production and screening process of documentary cinema, difficulties in film distribution, classification and age decisions, cultural heritage and archiving in cinema.
The workshop will begin with an opening reception on October 10 at 13:00 and end with the reading of the final reports on October 12, and the final reports will be shared with relevant institutions in digital and printed copies. In this way, the workshop aims to help institutionalize cinema in Turkey, solve problems in the sector, and strengthen relations between the sector and the academy.
International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Cinema Workshop Session Titles And Topic Focus
Session 1: Copyright Problems In Cinema
Topic Focus
- How can the domestic copyright collection process be initiated in the field of cinema?
- How can the application of “special copying fee- copyright levy” be provided in Turkey and the world?
Session 2: Working Conditions In The Film Sector In Turkey
Topic Focus
- Implementation problems and solutions for the rights granted by labor laws (health, safety, basic rules) in the film sector
- Gender equality in the film sector
- What can be done in the context of union rights in the film sector?
Sessions 3: Production Conditions, Crises And Solutions In The Film Sector
Topic Focus
- Problems experienced in the application of SGM supports at the end of 20 years of application and solution suggestions
- How can the financing problems of independent cinema films be resolved?
- How can institutional support opportunities for cinema films in Turkey be increased?
Session 4: Academy-Industry Cooperation In Cinema In Turkey
Topic Focus
- Cinema education curriculum in Turkey, current regulations and suggestions for improvement
- Employment conditions for cinema department graduates in Turkey
- Models for developing academy-industry cooperation
Session 5: Changing Vieweing Culture In Cinema
Topic Focus
- Change in cinema viewing culture from film to digital
- Movie theaters and viewing culture
- Digital viewing platforms and viewing culture
- Classification and screening of movies in Turkey (Legal regulations and current problems)
Session 6: Cinema And Cultural Heritage In Turkey
Topic Focus
- Archive problem in cinema in Turkey
- Institutionalization of cinema in Turkey
Session 7: Film Festivals In Turkey
Topic Focus
- Film festivals in Turkey in the context of city-cinema relationship analysis
- Film festivals in terms of sustainability
- Festivals and censorship
Session 8: Cinema Punlishing In Turkey
Topic Focus
- Printed and digital cinema magazines and publishing policies and guidelines in Turkey
- Cinema books and topic focuses in Turkey, analysis of publishing houses
- Roadmap to be followed for the development of cinema publishing in Turkey
Session 9: Short Film And Documentary Cinema In Turkey From Production To Screening
Topic Focus
- Fundamental problems experienced in short and documentary film production in Turkey
- Screening and circulation process of short and documentary films in Turkey