29/09/2021 - The industry platform of the 58th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is running online and will host 26 projects across five different sections

The eighth edition of the Antalya Film Forum, the co-production market and project-development sidebar of the 58^th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (2-9 October), will be held from 4-6 October, entirely online. Spanning five different platforms, the Antalya Film Forum is inviting 26 projects at various stages of production to come and be presented, and is headed up by Müge Özen and Pınar Evrenosoğlu.

In the Pitching for Feature Films in Development platform, eight projects (from among the almost 70 submitted) that are currently at the development stage, and have a director and producer from Turkey attached, were selected to be presented. Two of them will receive awards worth TL 30,000 (€3,000) each, while a third project will receive the TRT Feature Pitching Award and another the Film Standartları Postproduction Award. The recipients will be decided upon by the jury, featuring award-winning director Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun (The Announcement [+see also:
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interview: Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
film profile]), MK2 sales representative Olivier Barbier and producer Roshanak Behesht Nedjad.

The selection of the platform comprises the following projects:

A Smile Worthwhile - Sefa Öztürk
Producer: Ekin Çalışır

After Rain - Kenan Korkmaz
Producer: Neval Uysal

Lodos Boys - Murat Eroğlu
Producer: Meral Balık

Peer Through the Skin - Sertaç Koyuncu
Producer: Diler Ercan

Seed - Ali Cabbar
Producer: Ali Cabbar

Three Meters - Merve Kuş Mataracı
Producer: Merve Kuş Mataracı

Thursday Night Is Too Dark - Onur Sefer
Producer: Tilbe Cana İnan

Tussifed - Doğu Yaşar Akal
Producer: Ali Kaan Ege

In the Feature Work in Progress section, five projects, out of the 16 submitted, will be eligible to win awards of a total amount of TL 120,000 (€12,000), the Başka Sinema Distribution and Promotion Award, and the Creative Productions Colour Correction Award. They will be judged by Jean-Benoit Henry (Les Films du Losange), Justine Barda (Seattle Film Festival) and filmmaker Nisan Dağ (When I’m Done Dying [+see also:
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The participants in Feature Work in Progress are as follows:

Between Dog and Wolf - Murat Düzgünoğlu
Producers: Murat Düzgünoğlu, Evren Yıldırım

Klondike [+see also:
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interview: Maryna Er Gorbach
film profile] - Maryna Er Gorbach
Producers: Mehmet Bahadır Er, Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi, Maryna Er Gorbach

Suna [+see also:
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Producers: Betül Sezgin, Giovanna Ribes, Christo Bakalov

Cloves & Carnations [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Bekir Bülbül
Producer: Halil Kardaş

Tulliana - Orçun Köksal
Producers: Alara Hamamcıoğlu, Sinan Kesova, Arda Çiltepe

Furthermore, five projects will be screened as part of Documentary Works in Progress, and they will be going head to head for prizes totalling TL 60,000 (€6,000). The participants are as follows:

A Day, 365 Hours [+see also:
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Producers: Lynette Fortune, Eylem Kaftan

A Piece of Home - Mümin Barış
Producer: Mümin Barış

New Dawn Fades [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Gürcan Keltek
film profile] (working title: Horde) - Gürcan Keltek
Producers: Gürcan Keltek, Marc van Goethem, Arda Çiltepe

Road to Tokyo - Efe Öztezdoğan, İpek Kent
Producers: Aslıhan Altuğ, Haluk Koçak

What’s the Name of the Film? - Pınar Fontini
Producer: Pınar Fontini

Running for the second year in a row, the Series/Short Series Pitching Platform has received over 20 submissions, and five have been selected to duke it out for the TL 35,000 (€3,500) BluTV Award, the Color Up - Color Correction Award and the Presentation File Design Award by Daire Creative.

The selection of the platform comprises the following projects:

Bar Scene
Creator, director: İsmail Özgür Balamir
Producer: Can Aygör

Barbar
Creator, producer: Sedat Tanrıkolu
Director: Salih Topra

Committee of Bad Decisions
Creators: Ahmet İlker Coşkun, Deniz Bayraktaroğlu
Director: Ahmet İlker Coşkun
Producer: Hazal Özeren

Earthlings
Creators: Yiğit Hepsev, Büke Akşehirli, Aslıhan Altuğ
Director: Yiğit Hepsev
Producers: Aslıhan Altuğ, Büke Akşehirli

The Threshold
Creator: Ali Ufuk
Director: Ceren Arslan
Producer: Rıfat Erkek

Finally, three projects have been shortlisted for the Sümer Tilmaç Antalya Film Support Fund, and one of them will end up receiving support of TL 150,000 (€15,000) from the city of Antalya, in addition to a Post-Production Award sponsored by Fono Film. The stipulations are that at least two-thirds of the film must be shot in the region, and this footage must be featured in the final cut.

The projects selected are as follows:

Love Shop - Halit Eke
Producer: Halit Eke

On the Water Surface - Zeynep Köprülü
Producer: Utku Zeka

Philosopher’s Stone “Awakening To Freedom” - Ege Şirin
Producer: Bahadır Alptekin

In addition to the pitching, competition and one-on-one meetings this year, the Antalya Film Forum features workshops, master classes and talks in the Forum+ section in order to reach out to film professionals and everyone interested in cinema. These activities will take place online between 4 and 7 October. Among the guests, BAFTA-nominated scriptwriter Olivia Hetreed will give a master class entitled “Adaptations of Literary Works”, BAFTA- and Oscar-nominated producer Ed Guiney will hold a Q&A on “How to Produce a Successful Series”, and the EAVE workshop on “Marketing and Audience Development” is being organised under the guidance of Álvaro Vega.