Friday, 26 November 2010

Investigating a national festival


Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival



The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, is held annually since 1963 in Antalya.
This festival is the most important national film festival in Turkey.
The event, jointly organized by the Foundation of Culture and Arts in Antalya.


It takes place in the autumn months at the Antalya cultural centre.
Since 2005, the festival is accompanied by the International Eurasia Film Festival.

Recent festival
  • Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya has hosted the 47th International Golden Orange Film Festival between October 9 and 14.
  • Golden Orange Film Festival will feature 47 national long films, 33 of which are the first movies of their directors.
  • Turkish filmmakers such as Semih Kaplanoglu, Dervis Zaim, Sinan Cetin and Orhan Oguz are some of the directors in the Film Festival.

Semith Kaplanoglu

Semih Kaplanoğlu was born on 1963 in İzmir in Turkey.
He is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.
He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokusz Eylul University in his hometown.
In 1984, Kaplanoğlu moved to Istanbul and worked for a couple of years as a copywriter for advertising companies like Güzel Sanatlar, Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam.

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Dervis Zaim


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Derviş Zaim was born in Derviş Zaimağaoğlu on 1964 in Famagusta located in Cyprus.

He is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass in 2000, and Dot 2008, Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin 1996, and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland in 1995.

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Sinan Cetin


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Sinan Çetin was born onMarch the 1st, 1953 in Bahçesaray Van Province in Turkey.

He is a turkish actor, film director, and producer.

Çetin was born as the son of a customs officer and studied art history at Hacettepe University.

Çetin has produced full-length films and television series, and foremost, commercials.

He is best known in the English-speaking world for his 1999 movie Propaganda, a critically acclaimed libertarian comedy about post-World War II eastern Turkey.

Çetin both directed and produced this movie, as he did for many other films.

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new directors like Volga Sorgu, Savas Baykal and Belma Bas, who have directed their first movies, will also compete with "masters" of the industry to get the big prize at this year's festival.

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, is the most important national film festival in


The 1st Golden Orange Film Festival was held in 1964. Its mission was formulated by Avni Tolunay as to promote the Turkish cinema, to motivate Turkish film producers for high quality works and to help Turkish cinema penetrate the international film platform. The Golden Orange Feature Film Award was called soon the Turkish Oscar following the enthusiasm created in the cinema world with its high performance within a short time. In 1978, the festival went international by incorporating plastic arts for the first time.




Until 1985, the Golden Orange Festival was organized by the patronage of the Municipality of Antalya. That year, the organization was taken over by the newly established Foundation for Culture, Arts and Tourism in Antalya (Antalya Kültür Sanat Turizm Vakfı, AKSAV). From 1985 until 1988, the incorporation of an international music festival called “Akdeniz Akdeniz” (“Mediterranean Mediterranean”) added another dimension to the festival. In the years 1989 to 1994, the municipality, tourism companies and the chamber of commerce in Antalya performed the organization of the Golden Orange Film Festival jointly. Finally, the festival became institutional with the establishment of the Foundation of Golden Orange Culture and Arts Foundation. The institution serves under the name Antalya Culture and Arts Foundation (Antalya Kültür Sanat Vakfı) since September 2002.


in Antalya (AKSAV), takes place in the autumn months and usually starts with a parade in the city center.

Since 2005, the festival is accompanied by the International Eurasia Film Festival.


Venues

The ancient amphitheatre ofAspendos

The festival starts with a parade in the city of Antalya in the evening of the first day. The opening ceremony takes place at the Konyaaltı Amphitheatre or in Antalya Cultural Center in presence of national and international film celebrities invited. At this ceremony, honorary awards are presented to cinema people for their contribution.[3]

Glass Pyramid by night

The award ceremony takes place in the closing night at the historical Aspendos Amphitheatre, which holds around 7,000 people. In case of bad weather conditions, the award ceremony is transferred to the Glass Pyramid Sabancı Congress and Exhibition Center, which provides seating for an audience of 2,500 only.

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The event, organized by the Foundation of Culture and


cultural activities like concerts and theater plays, which started to take place in the 1950s at the historical Aspendos Amphitheatre, formed headstone of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival today. These events held in the summer months under the honorary patronage of Dr. Avni Tolunay, found ever increasing interest of people and became traditional until the beginning of 1960s. In 1963, the festivities turned into a film festival with the initiation Dr. Avni Tolunay, who became the mayor of Antalya that year. As the logo of the film festival was chosen orange, the most important symbol of the region, along with sea, historical elements and the Venus statute. The orange becomes not only a figure within the logo but gives also the festival its name.




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