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'TOUGH GUY' CHAIRS NATIONAL JURY AT ALTIN PORTAKAL FESTIVAL
Today's Zaman
July 30 2010
Turkey
Turkish screen actor Kadir İnanır will head the national feature
film competition jury in this year's Antalya Altın Portakal (Golden
Orange) International Film Festival, the organizers of the festival
announced Wednesday.
Antalya Mayor Mustafa Akaydın, who also heads the Antalya Foundation
for Culture and Arts (AKSAV), the cultural body affiliated with the
Greater Antalya Municipality which oversees the festival, announced
the members of the judging panels of this year's event, as well as
other details as to special tributes and honorees, in Wednesday's
press gathering at The Marmara Esma Sultan on the Bosporus coast,
attended by a crowded group of guests that also included top Turkish
stage and screen actors and jury members.
The 62-year-old İnanır, who has come to be associated with the
coldhearted but truthful tough guy characters who always fight
injustice in the dozens of films he appeared in, will preside over
the nine-member national competition jury, which also includes film
director Tomris Giritlioglu, screenplay writer Meral Okay, film
critic Atilla Dorsay, actress Meltem Cumbul, poet-author Murathan
Mungan and musician Gökhan Kırdar.
Glittering list
Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica will be a member of the international
feature competition jury, whose other judges have yet to be announced.
Kusturica, one of the few filmmakers to win the Cannes's coveted Palme
d'Or twice -- for "When Father Was Away on Business" and "Underground"
-- will come to the city with his No Smoking Orchestra to perform
during the festival's opening gala, like they did three years ago,
during 2007's Golden Orange and Eurasia film festivals. A selection
from Kusturica's films will also be offered in a special program
during this year's festival.
Oscar-winning American documentary director Megan Mylan ("Smile Pinki")
will join her Turkish counterpart CoÅ~_kun Aral and three other
documentary professionals from Turkey on the festival's documentary
jury while Cannes award-winning Armenian-French filmmaker Serge
Avedikian (Chienne D'Historie/Barking Island) and young Turkish
filmmaker Mehmet Bahadır Er (Kara Köpekler Havlarken/Black Dogs
Barking) are among the judges of the short film competition.
This year's festival will recognize veteran thespians Zeki Alasya
and Metin Akpınar, the stage and screen comedy duo best known for
their work with the 1970s and '80s popular cabaret theater DevekuÅ~_u
Kabare, with lifetime achievement awards. Other lifetime achievement
award honorees will be actresses GulÅ~_en Bubikoglu and Nur Surer,
screenwriter Safa Onal and screenwriter-director Ertem Görec.
The main theme for this year's festival is "Cinema and Social
Interaction," under which a comprehensive program of film screenings,
panel discussions with actors and other film professionals,
and workshops on screenwriting and acting, aimed both at regular
festival-goers as well as inmates in prisons in the Antalya province
and the nearby provinces of Burdur and Isparta, will be offered.
The festival will this year mark its 47th edition, albeit with a
shortened slate that will run from Oct. 9-14, as opposed to previous
editions that usually lasted for around eight days.
Film submissions will continue until mid-August, after which the full
festival program will be announced.
From: A. Papazian
Today's Zaman
July 30 2010
Turkey
Turkish screen actor Kadir İnanır will head the national feature
film competition jury in this year's Antalya Altın Portakal (Golden
Orange) International Film Festival, the organizers of the festival
announced Wednesday.
Antalya Mayor Mustafa Akaydın, who also heads the Antalya Foundation
for Culture and Arts (AKSAV), the cultural body affiliated with the
Greater Antalya Municipality which oversees the festival, announced
the members of the judging panels of this year's event, as well as
other details as to special tributes and honorees, in Wednesday's
press gathering at The Marmara Esma Sultan on the Bosporus coast,
attended by a crowded group of guests that also included top Turkish
stage and screen actors and jury members.
The 62-year-old İnanır, who has come to be associated with the
coldhearted but truthful tough guy characters who always fight
injustice in the dozens of films he appeared in, will preside over
the nine-member national competition jury, which also includes film
director Tomris Giritlioglu, screenplay writer Meral Okay, film
critic Atilla Dorsay, actress Meltem Cumbul, poet-author Murathan
Mungan and musician Gökhan Kırdar.
Glittering list
Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica will be a member of the international
feature competition jury, whose other judges have yet to be announced.
Kusturica, one of the few filmmakers to win the Cannes's coveted Palme
d'Or twice -- for "When Father Was Away on Business" and "Underground"
-- will come to the city with his No Smoking Orchestra to perform
during the festival's opening gala, like they did three years ago,
during 2007's Golden Orange and Eurasia film festivals. A selection
from Kusturica's films will also be offered in a special program
during this year's festival.
Oscar-winning American documentary director Megan Mylan ("Smile Pinki")
will join her Turkish counterpart CoÅ~_kun Aral and three other
documentary professionals from Turkey on the festival's documentary
jury while Cannes award-winning Armenian-French filmmaker Serge
Avedikian (Chienne D'Historie/Barking Island) and young Turkish
filmmaker Mehmet Bahadır Er (Kara Köpekler Havlarken/Black Dogs
Barking) are among the judges of the short film competition.
This year's festival will recognize veteran thespians Zeki Alasya
and Metin Akpınar, the stage and screen comedy duo best known for
their work with the 1970s and '80s popular cabaret theater DevekuÅ~_u
Kabare, with lifetime achievement awards. Other lifetime achievement
award honorees will be actresses GulÅ~_en Bubikoglu and Nur Surer,
screenwriter Safa Onal and screenwriter-director Ertem Görec.
The main theme for this year's festival is "Cinema and Social
Interaction," under which a comprehensive program of film screenings,
panel discussions with actors and other film professionals,
and workshops on screenwriting and acting, aimed both at regular
festival-goers as well as inmates in prisons in the Antalya province
and the nearby provinces of Burdur and Isparta, will be offered.
The festival will this year mark its 47th edition, albeit with a
shortened slate that will run from Oct. 9-14, as opposed to previous
editions that usually lasted for around eight days.
Film submissions will continue until mid-August, after which the full
festival program will be announced.
From: A. Papazian