"Kültür/Culture: The Turkish American Film Exchange Project" Takes Off in North Carolina
Turkish Filmmakers from the Association of Documentary Filmmakers of Turkey Participated in a Panel Discussion Hosted by the International Visitors Council / World Affairs Council of Research Triangle and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina to Announce an Innovative Documentary Film Exchange Program that Will Deepen Cross-cultural Understanding and Appreciation.
Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) April 14, 2005 -- Six members of the Association of
Documentary Filmmakers in Turkey (BSB) attended the Full Frame Documentary Film
Festival that was held in Durham, North Carolina through April 6-11. On the
final day of the Film Festival, a Panel Discussion was hosted by the
International Visitors Council / World Affairs Council and Full Frame
Documentary Film Festival to review the Turkish filmmakers' works and to
announce the "Kültür/Culture: The Turkish American Exchange
Project."
"Kültür/Culture" project includes six Turkish and six American
filmmakers. The U.S. Department of State funded project will allow filmmakers to
examine their rooted-ness in particular cultures through an exploration of how
abstract themes like love, envy, and pride, signify within their native
cultures. Over the next year, every filmmaker will have the opportunity to
explore those themes’ meaning within his/ her culture in a five-minute film.
BSB, an Istanbul-based non-governmental organization devoted to supporting and
recognizing the efforts of documentary film and video makers, chose the Turkish
participants. Doc Arts, Inc., which operates the Full Frame Documentary Film
Festival and the Full Frame Institute, chose the six American participants from
a pool of filmmakers who have a strong record of participation in the Full Frame
Film Festival.
Producers, Margaret Bodde and Neda Armian, and Full Frame
Executive Director Nancy Buirski, will oversee every film in order to make sure
that each short stands on its own, while building towards a greater theme.
Project producers have also paired each Turkish filmmaker with an American
filmmaker. Each paired team has been assigned an abstract cultural
idea.
Also an overseeing editor will assemble the twelve short films into
a continuous, 60-minute film.
Filming will commence sometime after the
2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The finished anthology of shorts will
premier at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North
Carolina and the 1001 Documentary International Film Festival in Istanbul,
Turkey.
The "Kültür/Culture" project will not only enable this diverse
group of filmmakers to develop new understandings of their own and other
cultures but also give them the opportunity to document their introspective
journeys.
Kültür/Culture: The Turkish American Exchange Project
Participants:
Project Concept & Grant Requestors:
Robyn Smith, Full
Frame Director
Todd Culpepper, IVC/WAC Executive Director
Film
Producers:
Nancy Buirski, Full Frame Executive Director
Neda Armian,
Producer
Margaret Bodde, Producer
Turkish Filmmakers:
Nurdan
Arca
Ozgur Arik
Ersan Ocak
Murad Ozdemir
Sehbal Senyurt
Mustafa
Unlu
American Filmmakers:
Edet Belzberg
Joe Berlinger
Linda
Goode Bryant
Nathaniel Kahn
Albert Maysles
Sam Pollard
Project
Coordinators:
Brian Bedsworth, IVC/WAC Project Coordinator
Peri Johnson,
Turkish Project Coordinator
Sadie Tillery, Kültür/Culture Project
Coordinator
About the Association of Documentary Filmmakers in
Turkey
Established in 1997, the Association of Documentary Filmmakers in
Turkey (BSB) is a platform that brings freelance and documentary filmmakers
together. BSB aims to support and recognize the efforts of documentary film, and
video makers and strives to increase public appreciation and demand for the
documentary.
For more information, please visit http://www.bsb-adf.org/BSB%2DEnglish%2DToonch/index.htm
Contact:
Peri Johnson 011-90-533-541-4486
About the Full Frame Documentary Film
Festival
Recognized as the premier documentary film festival in the United
States by both the New York Times and indieWIRE, the Full Frame Documentary Film
Festival celebrates the power and artistry of documentary film. The festival was
founded in 1998 by Nancy Buirski and is presented in association with the New
York Times. The festival embraces the documentary as an essential art and
champions the documentary filmmaker as an important witness to
society.
For more information, please visit http://www.fullframefest.org
Contact: Sadie Tillery
919-687-4100
About the International Visitor Council World Affairs
Council of Research Triangle
The International Visitors Council World Affairs
Council (IVC / WAC) is an independent, non-partisan organization that promotes
understanding of world affairs, citizen-to-citizen diplomacy, and the
recognition of North Carolina as an international center of education, culture
and business.
For more information, please visit http://www.ivc-rtp.org
Contact: Brian Bedsworth
919-838-9191
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