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The Subsequent ATCP Workshop in Istanbul

The subsequent Armenia-Turkey Cinema Platform workshop will be held in Istanbul on April 12-14 at the 31st Istanbul International Film Festival. Eurasia Partnership Foundation takes the patronage of ATCP program this year.

ATCP is the joint initiative of Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival and Anadolu Kültür. It aims at promoting cross-cultural dialogue between Armenia and Turkey on terms of Cinema. Several movies were filmed in frames of ATCP and reached out to wide audience in Armenia, Turkey, Germany, USA and many other places. It’s noteworthy that other 4 films are in the process of being completed. This proves the successfulness of ATCP.

This year Armenia-Turkey Cinema Platform will be included in the Meetings on the Bridge forum of Istanbul IFF.

Since mid-February the preliminary began. The Call for Application was circulated via electronic means. Meanwhile the platform received more than 35 submissions of short, documentary and full-length feature film projects until the beginning of April. The pre-selection committee, made up of Armenian and Turkish cinema professionals, handpicked 10 projects -5 per country-.

The projects were:

1. Dialogue, dir. Arsen Arakelyan;
2. My and Your Sunday, dir. Gagik Ghazareh;
3. Homeport, dir. Helen Kurkjian;
4. Fantastic Nostalgia, dir. Niak Shek;
5. Postcards from “The Museum of Innocence”, dir. Vardan Danielyan;
6. Little Black Fishes, dir. Azra Deniz Okyay;
7. Grandchildren of Giaour… My Armenian Grandfather, dir. Devrim Akkaya;
8. Looking for Manug, dir. Dilek Ajdin;
9. 23 and Half, dir. Ezgi Kilincaslan;
10. Manuk’s Voyage, dir. Ozlem Sariyildiz.

The Armenian participants are invited to Istanbul to have a pitch in front of producers and jury members. The winner project author receives $10,000 USD afforded by Eurasia Partnership Foundation.
It’s worth mentioning that the founding director of “Golden Apricot” IFF the film-director Harutyun Khachatryan and the Turkish film-director Yesim Ustaoglu are in the jury board.

“Golden Apricot” Int’l Film Festival
Press Release
April 11th, 2012
Yerevan