Short Filmmakers Meet at Bahçeşehir University!
The International Friendship Short Film Festival, to be held under the auspices of the Presidency of the Republic, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Türkiye, the General Directorate of Cinema and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, and organized by Balkon Film, is launching the "Friendship Short Film Workshop" for the first time this year and preparing to collaborate with Bahçeşehir University.
Through the workshop to be held at Bahçeşehir University as part of the festival, directed by Faysal Soysal with Mehmet Lütfi Şen as General Artistic Director, short filmmakers devoted to cinema will meet masters of the industry and gain new experience and knowledge.
APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL 7 OCTOBER
Twenty students, to be selected by the Festival Committee and Bahçeşehir University from the applications submitted by 7 October, will take part in a workshop led by leading names of the industry.
The workshop will be held on 12-13-14 October at Bahçeşehir University Galata Campus with the participation of Festival President and Director Faysal Soysal, Producer Elif Dağdeviren, Screenwriter and Director Melisa Üneri, Actor İrem Altuğ, Cinematographer Emre Pekçakır, Sound Technician Sertaç Selvi and Editor Umut Sakallıoğlu. The "friendship"-themed screenplay developed at the end of the workshop will be turned into a film with the support of Bahçeşehir University and the instructors.
Preparing to rebuild friendship in the language of short film, the "International Friendship Short Film Festival" invites all short filmmakers to the "Friendship Short Film Workshop" to multiply the reflections of friendship in our lives.
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