Solution To Cinema's Problems, In Cinema Workshop
The 61st 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 in cinema in Turkey under different headings.
In the Cinema Workshop to be held at Su Hotel on October 10-12, fundamental problems regarding the creation, production and distribution processes of feature 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.
A panel will also be held at the workshop. The guests of the panel titled "Independent Cinema in Turkey in the Context of Narrative and Discourse Structure" to be held on October 11 at 14:00 are two valuable names of our cinema; directors Tolga Karaçelik and Ümit Ünal. The panel will be moderated by workshop coordinator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Perihan Taş Öz.
The first session of the workshop titled “Copyright Issues in Cinema” will start at 14:30 on October 10, moderated by Prof. Dr. Okan Ormanlı from Istanbul Kültür University. The problems experienced in the domestic copyright collection process in the film industry and solution suggestions, and how can special copying fee (copyright levy) application be provided in Turkey and around the world? The speakers of the session, which will focus on topics such as: Ahmet Edebali/ Film Producers Association (FİYAB), Ayhan Sonyürek/ Screenplay and Dialogue Writer Cinema Work Owners Association (SENARİSTBİR), Lawyer Eylem Akkayalı/ Cinema Work Owners Federation (SEF), Mehmet E. Soyarslan/ Turkey Cinema Work Owners Association (SESAM), Mehmet Güleryüz/ Cinema and Television Work Owners Association (SETEM), Renan Bilek/ Cinema Actors Association (BİROY) and Tunç Davut/ Cinema Work Owners Association (SINE-BİR)
The first day will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Emine Uçar İlbuğa from Akdeniz University, and the second session will be titled “Academy-Sector Collaboration in Cinema”. The session, which will start at 14:30, will include; The curriculum for cinema education in Turkey, current regulations and suggestions for improvement, employment conditions for graduates of cinema departments in Turkey, and models for developing academy-industry collaboration will be discussed. The participants of the session will be; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Toy Par/Galatasaray University, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ece Vitrinel/Galatasaray University, Hakan Kasırga/Association of Cinematographers (GYD), Osman Özcan/Cinema and Television Union and Sadullah Şentürk/SİNE-BİR
The last session on the first day of the workshop will be held under the moderation of Prof. Dr. Senem Ayşe Duruel Erkılıç from Mersin University. The participants of the session titled “Film Festivals in Turkey” will be; Aydın Orak/Film Directors Association (FİLM-YÖN), Deniz Yavuz/Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakan Aytekin/Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB), Assoc. Hakan Erkılıç/ Mersin University, Haydar Işık/ Malatya Film Festival, İsmail Timuçin/ Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Nida Yılmaz/ Union of Turkish Municipalities, Özgür Balcı/ Workers' Films Festival and film writer Vecdi Sayar. Participants will evaluate topics such as the analysis of film festivals in Turkey in the context of city-cinema relations, film festivals in terms of sustainability, municipality-festival relations and festivals and censorship.
The sessions, which will start at 10:30 on October 11, will be titled “Working Conditions in the Film Sector in Turkey”, “Changing Viewing Culture in Cinema”, and “Cinema Broadcasting in Turkey”.
The moderator of the session titled “Working Conditions in the Film Sector in Turkey” is attorney Derya Yaman. The session will address the rights granted by labor laws in the film sector, implementation problems and solutions, gender equality in the film sector, and what can be done in the context of union rights in the film sector. The participants of the session are; Ahmet Edebali/ FİYAB, Damla Kırkalı/ Cinema and Television Union, Emre Yetim/ Actors Union, Galip Görür/ Cinema Workers Union (SINE-SEN), İbrahim Onur Akçınar- Vehbi Cankat Güneş/ Ministry of Labor, İlker Barış/ SENARİSTBİR and Ufuk Demirbilek/ Cinema and Television Union
Prof. Dr. The session titled “Changing Culture of Cinema” to be moderated by Hasan Akbulut will be attended by Prof. Dr. Ayşe Nilüfer Narlı from Bahçeşehir University, Cenk Sezgin on behalf of Cinemarine cinema chain, CJ ENM Media General Manager Ferhat Aslan, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakan Erkılıç from Mersin University and Assoc. Prof. Dr. İpek Azime Çelik Rappas from Koç University. The session will discuss the transformation of cinema viewing culture from movie theaters to digital platforms, from film to digital, and the classification and screening of movies in Turkey.
The third session of the day will discuss “Cinema Broadcasting in Turkey” moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Meliha Elif Demoğlu from Marmara University. The participants are Prof. Dr. Ali Karadoğan from Munzur University, cinema critic Barış Saydam, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fırat Sayıcı/ Cinema Writers Association (SİYAD), Prof. Dr. Semire Ruken Öztürk/ SİNECINE Cinema Research Journal, Ankara University, Serkan Öztürk/ ES Publications and Tuncer Çetinkaya/ Modern Times Magazine. In the session, the focus and thematics of printed/digital cinema magazines and cinema books in Turkey will be evaluated and the roadmap to be followed for the development of cinema publishing in Turkey will be discussed.
The sessions of the workshop, which will start at 14:30, will have the titles “Production Conditions, Crises and Solutions in the Film Sector”, “Cinema and Cultural Heritage”, “Short Film and Documentary Cinema in Turkey from Production to Screening”.
In the session titled “Production Conditions, Crises and Solutions in the Film Sector” moderated by Özgür Balcı; the financing problem of independent cinema films, methods to increase institutional support opportunities for cinema films and the problems and solutions experienced in the 20-year SGM support application will be discussed. The participants of the session; Ahmet Hızarcı, Ayhan Sonyürek/ SENARİSTBİR, Mehmet Güleryüz/ SETEM, Nida Yılmaz/ Union of Turkish Municipalities, Serkan Acar/ Film Cooperative (FİLMKOOP) and Tunç Davut/ SEF.
The “Cinema and Cultural Heritage in Turkey” session, moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aydın Çam from Çukurova University, will be attended by; Prof. Dr. Asiye Korkmaz from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Prof. Dr. Aydan Özsoy from Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Biket İlhan / Film Directors Association (FİLM-YÖN), Nil Gürpınar / Turkish Cinema Work Owners Association (SE-SAM) and Prof. Dr. Okan Ormanlı from Istanbul Kültür University. The session will evaluate the film archive problem in Turkey and cultural heritage.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. The final session titled “Short Film and Documentary Cinema in Turkey from Production to Screening” to be moderated by Hakan Aytekin will be attended by Prof. Dr. Aytekin Can from Selçuk University, Prof. Dr. Meral Özçınar from Manisa Celal Bayar University, Director Musa Ak, Okan Batur on behalf of the Short Film Directors Association and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sırrı Sertar Serter from Anadolu University. The session will evaluate the fundamental problems experienced in short and documentary film production in Turkey.
The final reports of the workshop, which will end on October 12, will be shared with the 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 academia. The final reports of the workshop sessions will be read in the Panel Hall of Su Hotel.
The Organizing Committee of the Workshop was chaired and conducted by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Perihan Taş Öz and TÜRSAV Secretary General, SE-YAP Honorary Board Member, Sine-bir Board Member, Screenwriter and Director Aydın Sayman are the honorary advisors. Producer and founder of Özen Film Mehmet E. Soyarslan, producer, screenwriter and founder of Belge Film Sabahattin Çetin and Istanbul University Radio, Cinema and Television Department faculty member Prof. Dr. Hasan Akbulut are the honorary advisors.